The interpretation and resolution of resource allocation issues in professional organizations: a critical examination of the professional-manager dichotomy

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This article examines how professionals and managers approach resource allocation issues, focusing on the conflicting interests between workers who occupy different organizational roles. Research presented analyzes the decision-making preferences of professionals and managers, and how they come to conceptualize the common issues presented to them.

Employee Relations, Statistical Data Included, Research, Labor relations, Resource allocation, Industrial sociology

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Enactment, sensemaking, and decision making: redesign processes in the 1976 reorganization of US intelligence

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This article discusses the application of K.E. Weick's theory of organizing and sensemaking to the reorganization of the United States intelligence community in 1976. The authors conclude that Weick's theory, which includes dominate variables, causal laws and executive dictates, is too restrictive in attempting to explain the redesign process.

Organizational Methods NEC, Management, Intelligence service

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Micro-practices of strategic sensemaking and sensegiving: how middle managers interpret and sell change every day

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The article examines the significance of middle managers' decision making strategies in maintaining stakeholders during organizational change of a clothing firm.

Financial management, Organizational history, APPAREL AND OTHER TEXTILE PRODUCTS, Methods, Clothing industry, Company restructuring/company reorganization, Reorganization and restructuring, Investor relations, Company organization, Middle managers

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