CEO Attitudes as Determinants of Organization Design: An Integrated Model
CEO Attitudes as Determinants of Organization Design: An Integrated Model
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DOI：
10.1177/017084069401500202
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发表时间：
1994-03
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
A. Lewin;Carroll U. Stephens
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作者：
A. Lewin;Carroll U. Stephens
本文认为，微观层面的个体特性可能会在宏观层面的组织特征选择中体现出来。特别是，我们认为首席执行官和总经理的社会心理态度是组织设计和战略中的一个关键偶然因素，而这在以往的研究中尚未得到充分的探讨。当实际的组织设计偏离权变理论的规定时，高层管理者的个体特性可能会解释行业内的差异。这些态度包括成就需求、马基雅维利主义、控制点、平等主义、对他人的信任、对模糊性的容忍度、风险倾向以及道德推理水平。从相关研究中推导出了一个综合理论和总结性命题。该理论包括对促进和阻碍高层管理者根据自身偏好设计组织的能力的相关情况的预测。
This paper argues that micro-level individual properties may be expressed in choices of macro-level organizational features. In particular, we believe that social-psychological attitudes of chief executive officers and general managers are a critical contingency in organization design and strategy that has not been developed sufficiently in previous studies. When actual organization designs devi ate from contingency-theory prescriptions, individual properties of top managers may account for within-industry variation. These attitudes include need for achievement, Machiavellianism, locus of control, egalitarianism, trust in people, tolerance for ambiguity, risk propensity, and level of moral reasoning. A compre hensive theory and summary propositions are deduced from related research. The theory includes prediction of the circumstances that facilitate and impede top managers' abilities to design organizations according to their preferences.