The Distribution of Authority in Formal OrganizationsGene W. Dalton, Louis B. Barnes, Abraham Zaleznik, Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration. Division of Research Harvard University, Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1968 - Business & Economics - 229 pages Case study of problems of personnel management in a research centre in the USA as an example of the impact of structural change on business organization in such formal organisations - covers technological change, leadership behaviour, etc., and includes information on research methodology and on the questionnaire used in the study. Bibliography pp. 217 to 223. |
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FORMAL ORGANIZATION IN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE | 1 |
II | 9 |
AUTHORITY POWER AND INFLUENCE | 35 |
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alter approach assigned assumptions attitudes authority and power autonomy Barnard behavior Blake Burns and Stalker CAPS CAPS CAPS CAPS committees CAPS groups CAPS Junior Managers CAPS Junior Scientists CAPS program CAPS Senior Chapter Charismatic Authority decisions dependency Development Center Director distribution of authority Dorwin Cartwright effect efforts established experience experimental departments F-Scale Figure Filtron formal organization structure gains goals Harvard Business School human relations immediate chief individual influence initial involved Jaques latent long-range Managers and Senior ment motivation Nampa Center Non-CAPS Junior Scientists non-zero-sum organizational change party patterns planning plant positional authority power-dependency relationship problem professional authority Project Groups Project Leaders question rational rational-legal authority Reporting an Increase responsibility retrospective role satisfaction shift social staff specialists struc subordinates superior supervisors T-Group theory thority tion total power variable West Westwood Division York Zaleznik zero-sum