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ABSTRACTResearch on the relationship between computers and organization structure has mainly focused on the probable impact of technology on features of structure, while the effects of structure on technology have been relatively little considered apart from the way ‘organizationally invalid’ systems cause conflict and resistance. In recent processual perspectives, the relationship between technology and organization is seen not as deterministic but as one of mutual influence, with the outcome both for the organization and the technology emerging from interaction among various stakeholders during system development and implementation. This article, using a longitudinal case study, shows how organization structures can impact on the development process so as to alter computer‐based systems to a design which is unintended but more consistent with existing organizational arrangements. It also discusses how systems specialists and managers can assess organizational invalidity, and offers a contingent framework for the courses of action to be taken if invalidity o

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1993.tb00301.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThis article addresses the debate concerning the study of management. Arguing that definitions of management have suffered from conceptual obscurity, it advocates that an understanding of management must address relational, constitutive and political dimensions of its operation. the work of Michel Foucault, particularly the concept of power/knowledge and his ascending analysis of power, offers such an approach. the relevance of Foucault for recasting the study of management is illustrated through an analysis of performance appraisal systems introduced into UK universities.

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1993.tb00302.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThis article argues that the real function of job evaluation technique lies not in the rational claims upheld in the managerialist literature but rather in the more diffuse area of meaning management. the argument is based on an intensive case‐survey analysis of the introduction of a formal job evaluation plan to one of Canada's ten provincial governments. From the complementary perspectives of social construction theory and institutional theory, job evaluation is ultimately defined as a rationalized institutional myth. First of all, job evaluation isrationalizedbecause it takes the form of rules, specifying the procedures necessary to accomplish the end goal of determining an internally equitable and externally competitive pay structure. Job evaluation isinstitutionalbecause actions are repeated and given similar meanings by the custodians of the system and those who fall under its administration. the set of meanings which evolves from job evaluation is expressed in a belief (ideology), an activity (norms and rituals), language and other symbolic forms through which the members of an organization both create and sustain views and images about the value of one job over another. Job evaluation is amythbecause it is a process based on widely held beliefs that cannot be tested objectively. Despite a number of unexamined assumptions, the technique is accepted as ‘true’because it is bel

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1993.tb00303.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThis article examines executive compensation in the United States, France, and the Netherlands. A brief review of executive compensation literature is conducted to expose its implicit value systems. Next, a qualitative study examines the interpretive schemas that executives express about the pay‐performance relationship; US‐developed expectancy theory and agency theory serve as a benchmark. the results indicate that US executives understand compensation in different terms from those employed by their European counterpa

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1993.tb00304.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThe cyclical nature of much consultant‐led activity designed to improve managerial effectiveness is explored through three consultant‐driven approaches to organizational improvement ‐ management by objectives, organization development and total quality management. Such packaged programmes seem to proceed through phases of high enthusiasm and much activity followed by a period of disillusionment, to be replaced by the next stage panacea. an attempt is made to offer some explanation of the transitory nature of much managerial activity which is believed to lie fundamentally in cultural and psychodynamic phenomena. Such an analysis may provide some clues to the search for remedial steps which might be taken to find more enduring ways to bring about increased managerial effectiveness in organizations, although by the very nature of our diagnosis we remain pessim

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1993.tb00305.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTHear my words carefully.Some are spokennot by me, butby a man in my position.    Norman MacCai

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1993.tb00306.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

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ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1993.tb00307.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY