1st Edition

Making Decisions about People The Organisational Contingencies of Illness

By Alex Dennis Copyright 2001
    222 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    This title was first published in 2001. Engaging with both management science and interactionist sociology, this book employs a case study of stroke rehabilitation in hospitals to clarify a range of practical organizational concerns and conceptual issues related to decision making in complex organizations.

    Contents: Decision making from an ethnomethodological standpoint; Analytical problems and an initial presentation of the data; Responsibility in decision making and the fallacy of relativism; Decision making in the stroke unit; Bibliography; Appendices.
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