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Assessing Innovative Organizational Design: The Case for A Feedback/Adaptation Model

Dec 13, 1984 | , , ,

Organizational change projects entail dynamic complex processes through which organizations and their members learn new ways to function. This paper by T. Cummings and Susan A. Mohrman assesses the appropriateness of traditional evaluation models for the assessment of these projects.

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The Impact of Information Systems Technology on Organizations: A Review of Theory and Research

Apr 1, 1984 | , ,

This paper by A. Mohrman, Jr. and Edward E. Lawler III reviews the results of recent studies on the impact of office-oriented information technologies.

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Creating Useful Research With Organizations: Relationships and Process Issues

Dec 17, 1983 | ,

Susan A. Mohrman, Thomas Cummings, and Edward E. Lawler III explain that concern about the usefulness of organizational research exists in both the academic and practitioner communities.

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Why Our Old Pictures of the World Don’t Work any More or Why It’s Become so Difficult to Believe in Traditional Research

Dec 1, 1983 | ,

The methods of the social sciences were largely developed for a mechanistic conception of the world. This paper by Ian I. Mitroff discusses why such methods are no longer appropriate.

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Two Sector and “Three Sector” Analyses of Collective Bargaining: Implications for Theory

Jul 1, 1981 | ,

Charles Maxey presents a comparative analysis of aspects of bargaining processes and outcomes in the public sectors.

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Systems are not Solutions: Issues in Creating Information Systems that Account for the Human Organization

Jun 1, 1981 | ,

Philip H. Mirvis (Boston University) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) report the results of two action research projects. Both focus on changing the information systems in organizations. One involved public reporting of measures, the other used measures for feedback purposes within the organizations.

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