Weick on Organizations as Nouns

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Team Memphis

Over time, how an organization is defined has changed.  Traditionally, there have been common features of organizations that deal with their structure.  Scott and Davis consider organizations to be “social structures created by individuals to support the collaborative pursuit of specified goals.”  All organizations must define objectives, induce participants to contribute services, control and coordinate [...]

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Administrative Behavior in Enron

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Team Memphis

I thought it would be interesting to look at how the administrative system of Enron behaved throughout the life of the company.  There were changes in upper level management throughout the business life of Enron and not everyone acted the same as his/her predecessor.  Simon’s Theory of Administrative Behavior (Scott and Davis, 53) talks about [...]

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Organizational Populations: Conceptualizing a Sublevel of the Ecological Level of Organizational Analysis

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Brooke

Organizational Populations The population of organizations is one of three distinct sublevels within the ecological level of organizational analysis.  It essentially identifies groups of organizations that are similar in some aspect.  W. Richard Scott and Gerald F. Davis in Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural, and Open System Perspectives equate organizational populations to biological species, arguing [...]

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Employee Satisfaction vs. Productivity

Posted on February 10, 2010 by emily

I think I have to agree on some levels with the claims made by Scott and Davis that there is little evidence to support the theory that employee satisfaction leads to higher productivity.  I believe that while employee satisfaction is necessary for employee’s mental health and their duration in any one job, employee satisfaction will [...]

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