Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
Organization Theory and Behavior
Gender and Values
The development of values in modern day organizations, particularly those that represent the public sector, are becoming increasingly aligned with principles that are part of social science and primary social science theory. As such, many of these values represent a degree of mutability that is representative of the dynamic nature of social science in general. As Montgomery Van Wart denotes in Changing Public Sector Values, values have changed to "an emphasis on individual performance to teamwork, from an emphasis on stability to an emphasis on change and innovation, and from steep hierarchical organizations to significantly flattened organizations with more decentralized authority" (p. 289).
The confluence of factors that help to comprise this trend in the shifting of values is fairly comprehensive, and correlates to many facets of social science...
Essentially, values are determined via a macrocosm that includes the interest of the public, the judiciary branch of government, the culture of a particular organization, its impact on the community and its impact on the individual. Although all of these factors exert a degree of influence, they create a synthesis in which they produce a subtle system of checks and balances that determines just what sort of values ultimately create an ethical system for a particular organization.
The specific relationship of these five factors with one another relates to their social value. For instance, the particular values that are associated with Van Wart's concept of the third source value of work are based on the hierarchical needs of an organization such as compliance and a manager focus. This source of value is directly related to social science theory because it is tempered by the author's conception…
Organizational Theory #2 What core competences give an organization competitive advantage? What are examples of an organization's functional-level strategies? Core competencies are those capabilities that are critical to a business achieving a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Typically, core competencies can be identified by certain common characteristics -- offering a benefit to the customer, difficult to imitate, uniquely identify the organization and easily leveraged to create many products or operate in many
Organizational Theory #1 Create a code of ethics for an organization of your choice. For each point in the code of ethics, describe an ethical dilemma that would be resolved using the code of ethics. All employees will conduct business honestly and ethically. We will constantly improve the quality of our services, products and operations and create a reputation for honesty, fairness, respect, responsibility, integrity, trust and sound business judgment. (Provides a
The goal is approached through three distinct channels -- (1) a bottom up approach, focused on the individual administrator; (2) a top down approach focused on organizational culture, and (3) the approach to values from a functional and practical angle. The conclusions can easily be extrapolated to the totality of entities, public or private, to reveal how an incremental emphasis is being placed on culture, ideologies, reform and efficiency. The
Organizational Theory and Public Management: Marx, Weber, and Freud. When one considers the vast topic of organizational theory, one of the foremost names in modern study is undoubtedly Robert B. Denhardt. As a professor of Public Administration at Arizona State University, he has authored numerous works on the topic of human behavior as it relates to public organization. Of course, in today's world, this area of study is no small thing --
Even more, strong theory should approach micro processes, if necessary. In certain situations, strong theory leads to directions that cannot be observed without the help of theory. Regarding organizational theory, contributors to building the basis of strong theory in this field include: Frederick Winslow Taylor (who studied human behavior at work using a systematic approach), Elton Mayo (who focused on the emotional side of employees and how it affects their
The theory sees human organizational behaviors and conceptions culturally bound, rather than natural, unlike advocates of systems theory. Systems theory has been more influenced by sociology and linguistics than the natural sciences. Analyzing symbolic interpretations may be more useful in organizations serving diverse populations: if a public health organization wants to alleviate the prevalence of diabetes in an area, it is not enough to more effectively disseminate information through the