Meaning making and management action
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Studies indicate that managers go through six phases of managerial evolution: opportunistic, social, analytic, goal-oriented, relativistic, and self-defining. Forty-nine employed graduate students and alumni were surveyed to identify developmental stages. Data suggested that managers select management style depending on their stage of development. It was found that it is very difficult to learn a new management style because this requires a change in development stage and learning new ways of thinking. New management skills did not 'graft' well on to the subjects. How to teach managers to proceed to later levels of management maturity remains a question.
Publication Name: Group & Organization Studies
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0364-1082
Year: 1987
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Social information processing and group-induced shifts in responses to task design
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Group discussion influences perceptions and attitudes, and this effect would tend to be most profound in organizational settings where interaction is frequent and prolonged. A repeated-measures control group experiment involving 110 undergraduate students found noteworthy changes in individuals' task perceptions and attitudes following discussion with coworkers. Incorporation of converging perspectives on task design is suggested: a process in which employees shape initial task reactions, process new social information, and make perceptual adjustments accordingly. Managerial and change-agent implications are discussed.
Publication Name: Group & Organization Studies
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0364-1082
Year: 1987
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Individualism-collectivism: concept and measure
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A group of 832 respondents in four non-academic organizations within a large, midwestern US university responded to 34 questionnaire items measuring individualism-collectivism. Results suggest that individualism-collectivism could be an important contingency variable or indicator of adaptive workforce characteristics. Organizational scientists should be aware that cooperative behavior may sometimes occur in spite of contrary self-interests.
Publication Name: Group & Organization Studies
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0364-1082
Year: 1986
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