Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic, And Postmodern Perspectives

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By matching more personal experiences to a concept, the more elaborate the concept will become and the more likely you are to remember and understand it. Contingency Theory. Available at: http://www.12manage.com/methods_contingency_theory.html (accessed [ permanent dead link] 26/03/12) Both pooled and sequential task interdependence. Sequential because the work of one worker depends on the work of the worker before him, such as in an assembly line. The relationship between technology and structure performance is not as important in larger organizations.

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Polyphonic organizations have emerged as a result of the way that the function systems have exploded beyond their organizational forms. Weber tended to offer a teleological argument with regard to bureaucracy. Weber's idea of bureaucracy is considered teleological to the extent that he posits that bureaucracies aim to achieve specific goals. Weber claimed that bureaucracies are goal-oriented organizations that use their efficiency and rational principles to reach their goals. [25] A teleological analysis of businesses leads to the inclusion of all involved stakeholders in decision-making. [26] The teleological view of Weberian bureaucracy postulates that all actors in an organization have various ends or goals, and attempt to find the most efficient way to achieve these goals. [21] Criticism [ edit ] Posey, Rollin B. (March 1961). " Modern Organization Theory edited by Mason Haire". Administrative Science Quarterly. 5 (4): 609–611. doi: 10.2307/2390625. JSTOR 2390625. Lawrence and Lorsch also proposed that for an organization to be most efficient and effective, their internal organization must fit the environment in terms of differentiation and integration.

George Homans said that the physical change in setting represented that the group was being given special treatment by management (and thus acquiring a special status) and this was the result of their increase in productivity - because of the change in physical structure. Revision of Scott’s Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1981), which ran to five editions. A polyphonic organization is an organization that is connected to several function systems without a predefined primary function system (multiple binary codifications). In other words, the polyphonic organization is an organization that describes itself through many codes.

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Overall, the historical and social context in which organizations arose in the United States allowed not only for the development of organizations, but also for their spread and growth. Wage dependency, externalities, and growth of industries all played into the change from individual, family, and small-group production and regulation to large organizations and structure.

IT (information technology) and managerial control have direct link - by reporting information, processing and counting that makes people think about nothing more than quality.It has also enabled the work of virtual organizations and teams, as well as allowed for more decentralization. At this point, to regain control, rules and policies have to be implemented (bureaucratic features) - this is known as the formalization stage. However, too much of this bureaucratic control can result in the crisis of red tape.

The word technology used to refer to the skills that the crafts person or artist had. However, due to modernists we now usually associate technology to machinery and tools, but it can be seen that skills are once again being focused on, for instance, in activities such as marketing. Throughout history organizations have always used several codes in their communication, but they have always had a primary codification. Andersen calls this type of organization a homophonic organization. [42] The homophonic organization is no longer exercised in today's society. According to Andersen, today we have polyphonic organizations. The main issue with ‘environmental complexity’ is that it suggests that there are no different reactions to the environment - everyone experiences it in the same way. Therefore, the information perspective on uncertainty was introduced. This highlights that rather than the environment being uncertain, the people who analyze the environment may feel uncertain about it. Defined the duties of a chief executive as: Planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, reporting and budgeting. The Neoclassical perspective began with the Hawthorne studies in the 1920s. This approach gave emphasis to "affective and socio-psychological aspects of human behavior in organizations." [11]

Within an organization, the silo metaphor describes the different values and routines that subcultures have, which make relationships between them difficult. This problem is usually solved through the formation of a strong culture, “agreement about what is valued and the intensity with which these values are held.” (Hatch and Cunliffe, 2006). The only textbook to use a three-perspective framework to explain, explore, and evaluate organizational theory in a distinctively engaging style. Unit and Continuous Technologies do well with organic structures because they are composed of non-routine tasks (i.e. they produce different products for specific tastes). Task Analyzability: “The extent to which, when an exception is encountered, there are known analytical methods for dealing with it” (Hatch and Cunliffe, 2006).