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Modern society might be called as organizational society, and one of the outstanding characteristics of this society is the bureaucratic phenomena, such phenomena often raises us some dysfunctional problems such as anti-humanism and organizational autocracy, in spite of it's all merits. The purpose ...

Modern society might be called as organizational society, and one of the outstanding characteristics of this society is the bureaucratic phenomena, such phenomena often raises us some dysfunctional problems such as anti-humanism and organizational autocracy, in spite of it's all merits. The purpose of this study is to examine the current theories of organizational democracy with the perspectives of power in and around organization, and to suggest some devices for enhancing democracy within an organization. To fullfill up the above purposes, this study basically takes the theoretical literature survey on the relevant topics and also examines it's practical cases in the west Europe countries. This study consist of 5 chapters as follows; Chapter 1 deals with the introductory parts of the study containing purposes, scopes and methodological problems. Chapter 2 explains the intellectual sources and background of the theory of the democracy within an organization by reviewing relevant literatures. Chapter 3 contains more deep theoretical arguments on the organizational democracy by the concept of power in around organization. Chapter 4 reviews the practical cases on organizational democracy and finds out some universal devices for it's practice and it is briefly summarized in the final chapter.

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