Milena Velba - Lingere

go game concept in organization theory

bread and games in organizations

An exciting approach to describe the structure of organizations is based on Crozier and Friedberg . Like other representatives of the behavioral Epistemology is running out of both the assumption that there is just no precise control over the behavior of organizational members by determined structures.

4 sources of power

On the contrary, each organizational member has a certain freedom - and this room also recognizes and converts it deliberately for their own purposes, which in Conversely, a certain risk, and hence of uncertainty for the organization and planning of the overall organization.

Consequently, each organization has a certain member Degree of power over other organizational members and thus the quality of the overall organizational structure.

This power can be justified from four sources:

• expert knowledge
• interface to the environment
• control of information and communication channels
• Organization rules

The organization responds to this uncertainty generally by formal rules and by expanding it. These rules are intended to minimize the uncertainty. The logical consequence is that the individual power potential is used again to expand their own freedom of action.

line control of areas used for other Members of the organization or the overall organization itself "uncertainty zones" are, it means power. That is the approach to design its own incalculable and the actions of others to make predictable for themselves.
reckless driving all organizational members develop their own strategies, then the entire organization as a whole by the decay and final extinction.

Integrationsmechanimus The constant threat of the disintegration of the organization to prevent exactly this negotiation game to individual and organizational power. The primary goal is to ensure that can continue to be played continuously, ie the stability of the organization not to and to align individual interests with the survival ability of the organization at risk.