Briefing: Managers and Management
... organizations recognize that they could be viewed form the perspective of individual or group behavior. She was a social philosopher whose writings provided a more people-centered view of the organization than the predominant scientific management writing. • According to Follett, the manager’s job w ...
... organizations recognize that they could be viewed form the perspective of individual or group behavior. She was a social philosopher whose writings provided a more people-centered view of the organization than the predominant scientific management writing. • According to Follett, the manager’s job w ...
ICIS Proceedings Template
... type II theory could well be called ‘theory for understanding’, since it is frequently oriented towards providing insight with a view to bringing about an altered understanding of how or why things are as they are. Furthermore, she suggests that forms of type II theory correspond closely to some vie ...
... type II theory could well be called ‘theory for understanding’, since it is frequently oriented towards providing insight with a view to bringing about an altered understanding of how or why things are as they are. Furthermore, she suggests that forms of type II theory correspond closely to some vie ...
Liberal International Relations Theory
... common usage, by keeping state “preferences” distinct from national “strategies,” “tactics,” and “policies,” that is, the particular transient bargaining positions, negotiating demands, or policy goals that constitute the everyday currency of international politics. States’ preferences, as the conce ...
... common usage, by keeping state “preferences” distinct from national “strategies,” “tactics,” and “policies,” that is, the particular transient bargaining positions, negotiating demands, or policy goals that constitute the everyday currency of international politics. States’ preferences, as the conce ...
Understanding the Chaos behind Chaos Theory
... The bestselling book by James Gleick (1987) made chaos theory understandable to those outside the mathematical and physics disciplines. It was not long thereafter that social scientists, organizational scholars and psychologists found an interest in chaos theory. Finally, there was a framework based ...
... The bestselling book by James Gleick (1987) made chaos theory understandable to those outside the mathematical and physics disciplines. It was not long thereafter that social scientists, organizational scholars and psychologists found an interest in chaos theory. Finally, there was a framework based ...
Andreas Pickel, Transformation Theory: Scientific or Political?
... world, charged ahead dispensing policy advice of one sort or another. The aloof failed to see how postcommunist changes could possibly affect, let alone challenge, economic theory (Csaba 2001). From the perspective on transformation theory developed in this essay, it is possible to see some merit in ...
... world, charged ahead dispensing policy advice of one sort or another. The aloof failed to see how postcommunist changes could possibly affect, let alone challenge, economic theory (Csaba 2001). From the perspective on transformation theory developed in this essay, it is possible to see some merit in ...
Physics 383
... 5310. Proseminar in Political Theory. 3 hours. Explores the variety of concepts, research, analytical methods and literature drawn from leading scholars in various areas of the field. 5340. Seminar in Political Science Scope and Methods. 3 hours. Concepts, trends and research design in political sci ...
... 5310. Proseminar in Political Theory. 3 hours. Explores the variety of concepts, research, analytical methods and literature drawn from leading scholars in various areas of the field. 5340. Seminar in Political Science Scope and Methods. 3 hours. Concepts, trends and research design in political sci ...
Managing Collaboration in Public Administration:
... -Governments, administration, and the September 11 effect -Rethinking public administration: The rise of an independent eclectic discipline -Interdisciplinary sciences and the vision of collaboration -Theoretical fragility and citizens’ mistrust in governance: Major calls for collaboration -Politics ...
... -Governments, administration, and the September 11 effect -Rethinking public administration: The rise of an independent eclectic discipline -Interdisciplinary sciences and the vision of collaboration -Theoretical fragility and citizens’ mistrust in governance: Major calls for collaboration -Politics ...
SOCIAL THEORY TODAY
... Research. ""'hi Ie Horkheimcr, and later Adorno and Mareuse, grounded the idea of a philosophically oriented and at the same time empiricallyfounded theory of society firmly in the context of the contemporary sciences, they were not able to realize this claim, exemplary though it was, because they l ...
... Research. ""'hi Ie Horkheimcr, and later Adorno and Mareuse, grounded the idea of a philosophically oriented and at the same time empiricallyfounded theory of society firmly in the context of the contemporary sciences, they were not able to realize this claim, exemplary though it was, because they l ...
estratégia - Universidade FUMEC
... 1995) and Whitley (1991) had already approached Strategy in organizations with a sociological eye. However, these studies were in the field of sociology or related fields. It was S-as-P, initially approached by Whittington (1996) that introduced studies of a sociological nature into the field of Org ...
... 1995) and Whitley (1991) had already approached Strategy in organizations with a sociological eye. However, these studies were in the field of sociology or related fields. It was S-as-P, initially approached by Whittington (1996) that introduced studies of a sociological nature into the field of Org ...
Kent Academic Repository
... There is not one version of role theory and critics may be more or less applicable to various types of role theory. George 1993 describes three important critics on role theory. First, the theory seems to be very broad and general, making it difficult to falsify. Second, the role of time is insuffic ...
... There is not one version of role theory and critics may be more or less applicable to various types of role theory. George 1993 describes three important critics on role theory. First, the theory seems to be very broad and general, making it difficult to falsify. Second, the role of time is insuffic ...
Placing power in practice theory Matt Watson
... structures constitute one another. Giddens invokes a vocabulary of power that is absent in more recent articulations of practice theory. For example, starting from his analysis of action, he identifies the role of allocative resources (capabilities) and authoritative resources (‘types of transformat ...
... structures constitute one another. Giddens invokes a vocabulary of power that is absent in more recent articulations of practice theory. For example, starting from his analysis of action, he identifies the role of allocative resources (capabilities) and authoritative resources (‘types of transformat ...
Max Weber
... authority rests on rules and law. Traditional authority rests on belief in established practices and traditions — i.e., authority is legitimate because it is exercised the way it has always been exercised. Charismatic authority rests on belief in the extraordinary powers or qualities of a leader. Al ...
... authority rests on rules and law. Traditional authority rests on belief in established practices and traditions — i.e., authority is legitimate because it is exercised the way it has always been exercised. Charismatic authority rests on belief in the extraordinary powers or qualities of a leader. Al ...
Chapter 2: Management -- Past and Present
... workers become dependent and reluctant. – Theory Y managers create situations where workers respond with initiative and high performance. • Central to notions of empowerment and selfmanagement. Management - Chapter 2 ...
... workers become dependent and reluctant. – Theory Y managers create situations where workers respond with initiative and high performance. • Central to notions of empowerment and selfmanagement. Management - Chapter 2 ...
II. Disciplines of musicology
... hand, in the 1990s the writings of Theodor Adorno, whose thought stimulated and challenged some of the leading German postwar historians, have become more fashionable (although perhaps less well digested) abroad than in his native country. The nature of Adorno's influence in Germany can perhaps best ...
... hand, in the 1990s the writings of Theodor Adorno, whose thought stimulated and challenged some of the leading German postwar historians, have become more fashionable (although perhaps less well digested) abroad than in his native country. The nature of Adorno's influence in Germany can perhaps best ...
Still critical after all these years? The past, present and future of
... other theoretical innovations would make their way into the study of international relations. It was also predictable that they would initially be couched largely in opposition to those trends. It should not be surprising, then, that it is Frankfurt School critical theory14 that was the first on to ...
... other theoretical innovations would make their way into the study of international relations. It was also predictable that they would initially be couched largely in opposition to those trends. It should not be surprising, then, that it is Frankfurt School critical theory14 that was the first on to ...
Value-Freedom and Socialist Theory
... seems to have believed that the requirement of ‘objectivity’ could be met only by purging the social sciences of all normatively loaded concepts. He also argued that it was wrong for social scientists to ‘add’ to their work any explicit value-judgments, even when these were made quite separately fro ...
... seems to have believed that the requirement of ‘objectivity’ could be met only by purging the social sciences of all normatively loaded concepts. He also argued that it was wrong for social scientists to ‘add’ to their work any explicit value-judgments, even when these were made quite separately fro ...
The Qualitative Foundations of Political Science Methodology
... and the “logic of confirmation.” The former is important in constructing theory, but political science is preoccupied with empirically validating theory (pp. 79–81). Following this, the Elmans suggest that political scientists are nomothetic, that is, interested in discovering generalizable theories ...
... and the “logic of confirmation.” The former is important in constructing theory, but political science is preoccupied with empirically validating theory (pp. 79–81). Following this, the Elmans suggest that political scientists are nomothetic, that is, interested in discovering generalizable theories ...
Chapter 7: Postmodern Perspectives
... The dominant model of traditional organizing is challenged by a political and economic aesthetic of “leaner, meaner,” team-based organizing. ...
... The dominant model of traditional organizing is challenged by a political and economic aesthetic of “leaner, meaner,” team-based organizing. ...
Contemporary Developments in International Relations Theory
... purely empirical, positivist lines. "To explain a puzzling set of facts was taken to be a matter of showing that their occurrence can be deduced and hence predicted from a known natural or at least statistical law. The prestige of this analysis not only served to direct social scientists to look for ...
... purely empirical, positivist lines. "To explain a puzzling set of facts was taken to be a matter of showing that their occurrence can be deduced and hence predicted from a known natural or at least statistical law. The prestige of this analysis not only served to direct social scientists to look for ...
Motivators and Hygiene Factors - UPM EduTrain Interactive Learning
... Especially interested in the behavior of managers toward workers “Every managerial act rests on assumptions, generalizations, and hypotheses--that is to say, on theory . . . Theory and practice are inseparable.” ...
... Especially interested in the behavior of managers toward workers “Every managerial act rests on assumptions, generalizations, and hypotheses--that is to say, on theory . . . Theory and practice are inseparable.” ...
Chapter 2
... , in which everyone is engaged in identifying and solving problems, enabling the organization to continuously experiment, improve, and increase its capability. Three important adjustments to promote continuous learning are shifting to a team-based structure, empowering employees, and sharing informa ...
... , in which everyone is engaged in identifying and solving problems, enabling the organization to continuously experiment, improve, and increase its capability. Three important adjustments to promote continuous learning are shifting to a team-based structure, empowering employees, and sharing informa ...
The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory
... character type of a totalitarian rather than an authoritarian society. Thus, it should have been no surprise to learn that this new syndrome was fostered by a familial crisis in which traditional paternal authority was under fire” (Jay 1996, p. 247).) Horkheimer’s leadership provided a very distinct ...
... character type of a totalitarian rather than an authoritarian society. Thus, it should have been no surprise to learn that this new syndrome was fostered by a familial crisis in which traditional paternal authority was under fire” (Jay 1996, p. 247).) Horkheimer’s leadership provided a very distinct ...
Social and Behavioral Theories - e-Source: Behavioral and Social
... ability to use them skillfully. ...
... ability to use them skillfully. ...
Epistemology, Theory, and Methodology in Knowledge Organization
... Epistemology is how we know. In KO we make implicit epistemic statements about knowledge of concepts, acts (such as representation), entities, and systems. In so doing, we create knowledge, and our epistemic stance dictates what kind of knowledge that is. Some common names of epistemic stances are: ...
... Epistemology is how we know. In KO we make implicit epistemic statements about knowledge of concepts, acts (such as representation), entities, and systems. In so doing, we create knowledge, and our epistemic stance dictates what kind of knowledge that is. Some common names of epistemic stances are: ...
Polyphonic Theory and Contemporary Literary
... provides us with some of the guidelines for its transformation. This excites the scholar and indeed seduces. But for the critic who is not so much interested in remaining within the abstract intricacies of theories which can often bedevil the critical discourse, but rather whose prime concerns are t ...
... provides us with some of the guidelines for its transformation. This excites the scholar and indeed seduces. But for the critic who is not so much interested in remaining within the abstract intricacies of theories which can often bedevil the critical discourse, but rather whose prime concerns are t ...