作者:Leidner, DE; Elam, JJ
作者单位:State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要:Managerial decision making is regarded as among the most important functions of senior managers. The presence of easily accessible, reliable information contributes to effective decision making. Sources of information may be oral, written, or computer-based. The computer-based information sources remain the least studied in the context of executive decision making because executives have tended to use other managers and their own intuition as their primary information sources. Recently though,...
作者:McCaffrey, DP; Faerman, SR; Hart, DW
摘要:One can identify compelling reasons for private and public organizations to embrace participative systems. Scholars and organizational consultants maintain that organizations need such systems to prosper in an increasingly competitive and turbulent world, and that such changes are now taking place. Yet, participative techniques have diffused minimally. Why is there such a discrepancy between the endorsements and adoption of participative methods, despite the strong arguments for them and their...
作者:Collins, D
摘要:This article examines the role of class conflict and group processes during the transitional stage of an organization experimenting with a high involvement management system and a group-based bonus. Review articles on workplace democracy often report ambiguous empirical findings. This is because much of the writing about participatory management is narrowly grounded in either human relations or human resource management theory. This study uses organization theory literature on class conflict a...