Missing Organizational Linkages: Tools for Cross-Level Research

by Paul S. Goodman

Overview

Presents an innovative approach for analyzing and understanding organizations, examining how actions among individuals and groups affect organizations as a whole. Challenges the view that improvement in individual or group performance is necessarily linked to enhanced organizational functioning. Explores the concept of organizational linkages and applies it to the areas of organizational change, organizational errors, and organizational learning. Includes chapter- ending "conversations" between the author and reader. The author teaches industrial administration and psychology at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761916178
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/10/2000
Series:	Foundations for Organizational Science
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.42(w) x 9.22(h) x 0.64(d)

Table of Contents

Beginning the Conversation
Framing the Organizational Linkage Problem
Tools for Linkage Analysis
Organizational Errors
Changing Organizations
Limiting Conditions
Focusing on System-Wide Changes
Change and Linkages among a System of Outcomes
Organizational Learning
Reflecting Backward and Looking Forward