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March and Simon's work reflects a key concern with the issue of inducing contributions from organizational members and emphasizes rationality in organizations. The writing of Likert and McGregor reflects a central interest in organizational arrangements for releasing the underutilized energy of individual members. Argyris' work emphasizes the impact of the organization on individual development. All of these writers tend to start with the individual as the basic unit of analysis and build toward the large organization, while we are proposing to start with larger, sociological entities- the entire organization and its larger subsystems.
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By integration we mean the process of achieving unity of effort among the various subsystems in the accomplishment of the organization's tasks.
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[Integration is defined as] the process of achieving unity of effort among the various subsystems in the accomplishment of the organization's task.
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The state of segmentation of the organizational system into subsystems, each of which tends to develop particular attributes in relation to the requirements posed by its relevant external environment. Differentiation, as used here, includes the behavioral attributes of members of organizational subsystems.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Paul R. Lawrence
Born:
April 26, 1922
Died:
2011
(aged 88)
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