[[Image:--~~~~'''Philip Selzick''' is professor emeritus of law and society at the [[University of California at Berkeley]]. A noted author in [[organizational theory]], [[law and society]], and [[public administration]], Selznick's work has been pathbreaking in several fields in such books as [[The Moral Commonwealth]], [[TVA and the Grass Roots]]]], and Leadership and Administration.
Selznick received his PhD in 1947 from Columbia University where he was a student of Robert K. Merton. Editing Robert K. Merton This article is about the sociologist. ...
In bestuurskundige handboeken wordt het boek doorgaans niet behandeld of geciteerd (zie bijvoorbeeld Hoogerwerf, 1978; Rosenthal et.al., 1987).
Selznick maakt in dit verband een belangrijk onderscheid tussen organisaties en instituties.
Selznick plaatst leiderschap in een organisationele context: leiderschap als het vervullen van bepaalde functies die cruciaal zijn voor het voortbestaan van de organisatie.
Selznick characterizes organizations as rational and expendable, as governed by rationality and discipline in contrast to what he offers as a higher form of social entity, the institution.
One may, of course, understand this analytic failure of Selznick's as being one more symptom of the fact that he conceives his book as being directed to a very narrow audience; and it is in terms of this audience's values that he defines the organization-institution distinction.
Selznick writes that one of the most important techniques for infusing day-to-day behavior with long run meaning and purpose is the elaboration of socially integrating myths.
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