d be found in the way that the authors choose to organize the work. In the first section, "Classical Organization Theory" they cite works by Socrates, Adam Smith, Babbage, Towne, Fayol and others.
The authors cited here all dealt with the human cost of work and organization, and treated labor as value added. This section is followed by the "Human Resources" section where the value added nature of human capital is considered. Agreeing or disagreeing with the author's choices is instructive only insofar as it provides us with a method of understanding how the authors view the history of organizational behavior studies.
Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay
(Perrow, C.,1986, New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education)
In a very great sense, this book is also a survey look at organizational theory with one major exception. Where Shafritz and Ott's work went inside the minds of numerous theorists, with Perrow's work, we always stay within his mind. We are seeing, therefore, the organizational theories (many of which also appear in the Classics book) through the filter of Perrow's mental perceptions. Often called a classic in organizational theory provides a succinct overview of the principal schools of thought.
This does have the effect of reducing a theory or proposed school of thought to its essential elements (analyzing a person on the basis of his constituent
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