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作者：Bradshaw-Camball, Patricia; Murray, Victor V.
作者单位：York University - Canada
摘要：Despite recent and growing interest in organizational politics, conceptual thought in this area tends to be dominated by a single theoretical perspective. In this paper we describe and contrast three views of organizational politics (functionalist, interpretive and radical) according to their differing structures, processes and outcomes. Each view, or lens, directs attention to some aspects of politics and away from others, and each has strengths and weaknesses embedded in it. In order to asse...
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作者：Epple, Dennis; Argote, Linda; Devadas, Rukmini
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University of Southern California
摘要：This paper illustrates how a learning-curve model can be generalized to investigate potential explanations of organizational learning. The paper examines the hypothesis that knowledge acquired through by learning by doing is embodied in an organization's technology by analyzing the amount of transfer that occurs across shifts within a plant. If knowledge becomes completely embodied in technology, transfer across shifts should be complete since both shifts use the same technology. Methods that ...
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作者：Jermier, John M.; Slocum, John W., Jr.; Fry, Louis W.; Gaines, Jeannie
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of South Florida; Southern Methodist University; State University System of Florida; University of South Florida
摘要：The primary purpose of this study was to compare and contrast an organization's official culture and its subcultures. The proposition that soft bureaucracies project a rigid exterior appearance, symbolizing what key stakeholders expect, while masking a loosely-coupled set of interior practices, guided this analysis of a police organization. The official culture (crime-fighting command bureaucracy) was examined as an arbitrary set of symbols and meaning structures arranged according to top mana...
