Carolina QuotesIt [the human relations school ] lacks empirical support and conceptual clarity, and it fails to grapple with the realities of authoritarian control in organizations and the true status of the subordinate
Charles Perrow Connected to the Carolinas
Source
p. 119
- work
- Complex organizations, 1972
- year
- 1972
- locator
- p. 119
Cite this record
“It [the human relations school ] lacks empirical support and…” Charles Perrow. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-455B29151D. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/455b29151d
More from Charles Perrow
The hundreds of scientific studies of this phenomenon come to one general conclusion: Leadership is highly variable or "contingent" upon a large variety of important variables such as nature of task, size of the group, length of time the group has existed, type of personnel within the group and their relationships with each other, and amount of pressure the group is under. It docs not seem likely that we'll be able to devise a way to select the best leader for a particular situation. Even if we could, that situation would probably change in a short time and thus would require a somewhat different type of leader.
The power structure will generally dictate the operative goals of the organization.
As an organizational sociologist, I was interested in the system characteristics of large accidents, but the discipline also made me aware of the organizational genesis of male-made disasters.