Organizations on the Couch: Clinical Perspectives on Organizational Behavior and Change

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Title Organizations on the Couch: Clinical Perspectives on Organizational Behavior and Change
Publication Type Book
Pub Year 1991
Authors KetsDeVries, M.
Publisher Jossey Bass Business and Management Series, Jossey-Bass, Inc. Pub
Keywords accomplishment, bureaucracy, leadership, meaning, quality, rules
Notes bureaucracy"The institutionalized work group accomplishes work in a routine and rational fashion. Procedure, rules, and regulations may take priority over quality of work, substance of product and service, and overall meaning and purpose of task accomplishment. Intra- and interorganizational boundaries are often rigid and inflexible. Bureaucratic administration replaces leadership." (p. 204)