Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic, And Postmodern Perspectives

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Blomberg, Jesper. Organization Theory: Management and Leadership Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2020 Culture: this can be seen in the form of norms, laws and values and occurs through normative pressures. There is no way to detect survival. It can only be seen if an organization has survived after it has done so.

Increases efficiency due to task specialization - i.e. in a group of workers, each specializes on a specific task to complete the whole product. 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). Achterberg, Jan; Vriens, Dirk (2010). "Introducing Organizations as Social Systems Conducting Experiments". Organizations. Springer Berlin. pp.9–10. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14316-8_1. ISBN 978-3-642-14315-1 . Retrieved 30 December 2022. a b Weber, Max. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (2 Volume Set). University of California Press.

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Some locations have specific reputations and theorists from the symbolic interpretive perspective describe this in terms of place versus space.

Mechanistic Organizations: Operate like machinery - they are formalized, standardized and specialized (Hatch and Cunliffe, 2006), and usually run with supervision. They are most efficient in stable and unchanging environments.

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Early cultural anthropologists studied the differences between humans and animals. Culture was at first identified as being the main characteristics of humans that made them different from other species. When physical settings were being manipulated, this was thought to have an effect on productivity. However, the reason why the productivity increased was not due to changes in physical settings, but rather the fact that workers were under observation.

Continuous: New technologies seem to be able to run on a continuous basis and whatever is continuous also needs to be reliable. Continuous technology is also complex because if it ever needs to be changed, it needs to be done while maintaining the operation.When conducting studies on different organizations, the theorists found that unstable environments required organizations with more differentiation whereas stable environments need low amounts of differentiation. In all environments, integration is needed, but in different ways.

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.Illumination Experiments (1924–27) to find out the effect of illumination on worker's productivity." There are three perspectives, collectively known as multiple perspectives which help to analyse and understand organizations. These include the modern, symbolic interpretive and post modern perspectives.