The Social Psychology of Organizing
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Printer-friendly version| Title | The Social Psychology of Organizing |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Pub Year | 1979 |
| Authors | Weick, K. E. |
| Publisher | Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. |
| Keywords | appraisal, criticism, intervention, overmanagement, performance, quality, relationships |
| Notes |
criticism"As criticisms first start to increase the person exerts more effort, concentration is already quite high, and quality improves. As the criticisms continue to increase there comes a point where the additional increments of effort are now canceled because the person can't concentrate. Beyond this point, the greater the number of criticisms, the lower the quality of performance." (p. 227) intervention, overmanagement"The danger of inappropriate intervention is especially likely if members mistakenly assume that people, rather than relationships, are the critical control points in an organization. The thrust of the organizing model is that it's easy to overmanage an organization and that is an excess rather than a deficiency of intervention that lies at the heart of many organizational problems." (p. 244) |