Coordination and Output Attainment in Work Units Performing Non-routine Tasks: A Cross- National Study

Based on an information-processing perspective (Galbraith 1972), a theoretical pro position is advanced which predicts that for work units performing non-routine tasks, the effect of unit coordination on output attainment is contingent on the sources from which the unit acquires information for task performance. This proposition is tested using a cross-national research design. Data from four national samples — Austria, Belgium, Hungary, and Poland — of academic research units support the proposition. The results reinforce the need for a contingency approach to the study of coordination and performance in organizations. They also provide some insight into the interplay between society and organization.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68600/2/10.1177_017084068500600102.pd

The Distribution of Control in Formal Organizations

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/86722/1/astannen-distribution_control_formal.pd

A Study of Organizational Effectiveness

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/86718/1/astannen-study_organizational_effectiveness.pd

Conceptual-theoretical framework for the organizational study of hospital emergency services

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The community general hospital

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Organizations in a Changing World

Organizations today are under challenge as a result of the break with traditional authority, the growth of democratic ideology, economic affluence and consequent changes in needs and motive patterns, and the accelerated rate of change. Adaptive subsystems have not kept pace with other organizational subsystems, and hence new inputs tend to be either rejected in blanket fashion or else incorporated without assimilation to the dominant patterns. Organizational leaders are preoccupied with their tasks of mediation between conflicting demands, and the problem of the reconceptualization of values has been left to the rebelling factions. There is hope, however, that a new consensus may emerge about organizational restructuring which acknowledges both the role of direct democracy in the smaller units and representative democracy in the larger system.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67320/2/10.1177_002188637100700305.pd