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| Author: | Leitko, T. A. Szczerbaeki, D. |
| Title: | Why traditional OD strategies fail in professional bureaucracies. |
| Journal: | Organizational Dynamics
1987 : WINTER, VOL. 15:3, p. 52-65 |
| Index terms: | ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAUCRACY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Characteristics of professional bureaucracies in human services organizations /HSO-s/. They are highly decentralized, participative, and communicative so that come close to the models that OD practitioners hold as ideals. However the integration of professionals into a professional bureaucracy has always been problematic. Task indeterminacy is certainly a problem for HSO-s. Three problems originating from diffusion of authority are: administrative "anomie", establishment of personal regimes, and withdrawal from interaction with other organizations. Moving professional bureaucracies /schools, hospitals etc./ from a position of dispersed to cumulative power may therefore be necessary for organizational development. |
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