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The organization as a coalition of diverse stakeholders is a coalition with multiple goals.
Images of Organization (1986)
Dialectical analysis thus shows us that the management of organization, of society, and of personal life ultimately involves the management of contradiction.
Images of Organization (1986)
Power is the medium through which conflicts of interest are ultimately resolved. Power influences who gets what, when, and how.
Images of Organization (1986)
Groups and departments often attempt to incorporate key skills and resources within their boundaries and to control admissions through selective recruitment.
Images of Organization (1986)
While they create a way of seeing and suggest a way of acting, they also tend to create ways of not seeing, and eliminate the possibility of actions associated with alternative views of the world.
Images of Organization (1986)
Patriarchy operates as a kind of conceptual prison, producing and reproducing organizational structures that give dominance to males and traditional male values.
Images of Organization (1986)
Any system that insulates itself from diversity in the environment tends to atrophy and lose its complexity and distinctive nature
Images of Organization (1986)
Bureaucracy can have dehumanizing effect upon employees, making them more like machines, especially those at the lower levels of the organizational hierarchy
Images of Organization (1986)
In order to live in harmony with one another, humans must moderate and control their impulses, and that the unconscious and culture were thus really two sides of the same coin.
Images of Organization (1986)
The metaphor suggests that different environments favor different species of organizations based on different methods of organizing and that congruence with the environment is the key to success.
Images of Organization (1986)
Organization always hinges on the creation of shared meanings and shared understandings, because there have to be common reference points if people are to shape an align their activities in an organized way.
Images of Organization (1986)
In highlighting the role of the unconscious in organization, there is a danger that many will now want to find ways of managing the unconscious as well. This, of course, is impossible, because the unconscious is, by nature, uncontrollable.
Images of Organization (1986)
Though we may in quiet times confront the fact that we are going to die, much of our daily life is lived in the artificial realness created through culture. This illusion of realness helps to disguise our unconscious fear that everything is highly vulnerable and transitory.
Images of Organization (1986)
Contingency theorists suggest that we can best proceed by appointing 'the right people' to the job we have in mind, and by creating flexible authority, communications, and reward structures that will motivate them to satisfy their own needs through the achievement of organizational goals.
Images of Organization (1986)