Markets, Bureaucracies, and Clans

William G. Ouchi discusses in the article Markets, Bureaucracies, and Clans the importance of evaluating organizational efficiency in order to determine the value of individuals to an organization. He states that a transaction cost framework allows for this type of evaluation of organizational efficiency-the framework is based on two conditions, namely goal incongruence and performance [...]

Traditional Authority in a changing world

In the selection for Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich it talks about working in a bureaucracy, for the most part living in a bureaucracy is a good thing however, we all know what to much of a good thing leads to. Ehrenreich talks of her experience in trying to get ahead in the minimum [...]

Teaching people how to post

I am teaching these intrepid blog-o-nauts how to write a post. blog-a-nuat is defined by the New hacker’s dictionary of geeky terms as….

Bloggable ideas from Ch 2 of O&O

As an example of how to draw inspiration for blogging from the Scott and Davis book, Organizations and Organizing, I offer the following list of prompts from my notes. Can it really be rational to purseu goals with maximum efficiency without caring about the selection of goals? Have you ever seen a group or organization [...]