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Using theory and methods drawn from such behavioral sciences as industrial/organizational psychology, industrial sociology, communication, cultural anthropology, administrative theory, organizational behavior, economics, and political science, the change agent's main function is to help the organization define and solve its own problems. The ...
The theories of organizations include bureaucracy, rationalization (scientific management), and the division of labor. Each theory provides distinct advantages and disadvantages when applied. The classical perspective emerges from the Industrial Revolution in the private sector and the need for improved public administration in the public sector.
[3] Organization theory cannot be described as an orderly progression of ideas or a unified body of knowledge in which each development builds carefully on and extends the one before it. Rather, developments in theory and descriptions for practice show disagreement about the purposes and uses of a theory of organization, the issues to which it ...
Articles relating to organizational theory, which consists of many approaches to organizational analysis."Organizations" are defined as social units of people that are structured and managed to meet a need, or to pursue collective goals.
Edith Penrose - The Theory of the Growth of the Firm (1959) Juan Antonio Pérez López - negative learning (1990s) Oscar E. Perrigo - shop management (1900s) Laurence J. Peter - Peter Principle (1970s) Thomas J. Peters - management (1970s, 1980s) Jeffrey Pfeffer - organizational development (1970s–?) Robert Allen Phillips
Examples include the various stages in an organization's life cycle, phases of growth experienced by an organization during expansion and implications for these phases of growth. [16] Review of the main organizational life cycle theories, with stages, main idea and authors is given in the table below.
A turn is a collective direction of research, focused on some coherent sets of concepts, theories, and ideas, which represent a point of bifurcation for the field itself. Most turns in organization studies relate to broader ones in social sciences and humanities.
In the early seventies, Hill and Grunner reported that more than 100 theories of group development existed. [1] Since then, other theories have emerged as well as attempts at contrasting and synthesizing them. As a result, a number of typologies of group change theories have been proposed. A typology advanced by George Smith (2001) based on the ...