Document Info:
This Ph.D. Dissertation is presented in searchable PDF format and is approx. 1.34 MB in file size and 197 pages in length .

Dissertation: 1985, Ph.D. (Library Science), University of Southern California, United States

Summary:
One of the most basic observable characteristics of organizations which employ people to do work is that they are divided into a hierarchy of jobs.

Some workers have, as a part of the execution of their role, authority to control the actions of other workers toward some common end.

This fundamental fact of employment hierarchies is as characteristic of the work which is conducted in public libraries as it is of any other type of employment situation...

 Boalsd Phd 1985 (1.3 MB)