Levels of Work and Responsibility in Public Libraries
by David Boals, 1985, Ph.D. (Library Science), University of Southern California, United States
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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.
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...
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...
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Dissertation: 1985, Ph.D. (Library Science), University of Southern California, United States
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