Organizational Thoery
Introduction
Today with the advance of technology, organisations changes rapidly and work differently, adopting different ideas and implementing different strategy to their organisation. They gather different perspective that produces different knowledge from a wide variety field of studies and this perspective is able to associate with their own concepts and theories that could effectively design and manage organisations. These perspectives include modern, symbolic-interpretive, postmodern and critical thinking. The focus will be on two perspectives, modern and postmodern that will be discussed later below.
Modernist organisation
In a modernist perspective, organisation is being distinguished as bounded and definable entity that thinks standardization is crucial in order to achieve the objective. According to Hatch and Cunliffe (2006), the implementation of modernist perspective has to be unbiased towards what is consider as knowledge into what is perceive as data collected by the five senses such as eyes, nose, tongue, ears or skin. Their goal is to achieve the facts that rule the organisation as they believe that by identifying the facts, they are capable to capture the plan and achieve the goal of an organisation, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness.
Power, control and conflict
Modernist perspective view power as a unity of science and see it as an asset that is held by a particular group or individual. They believe that with authority comes power and in order to gain authority and power is to implement a structure strategy in an organisation. Hence, the strategy that is based on hierarchy through the management such as the level of management is established. For example employee is the most basic, manager is the level above employee, and CEO is the level above manager (Hatch and Cunliffe 2006).
Additionally, in order to maintain authority and power, modernist believe in adopting strategy such as time motion studies and deskilling is
Today with the advance of technology, organisations changes rapidly and work differently, adopting different ideas and implementing different strategy to their organisation. They gather different perspective that produces different knowledge from a wide variety field of studies and this perspective is able to associate with their own concepts and theories that could effectively design and manage organisations. These perspectives include modern, symbolic-interpretive, postmodern and critical thinking. The focus will be on two perspectives, modern and postmodern that will be discussed later below.
Modernist organisation
In a modernist perspective, organisation is being distinguished as bounded and definable entity that thinks standardization is crucial in order to achieve the objective. According to Hatch and Cunliffe (2006), the implementation of modernist perspective has to be unbiased towards what is consider as knowledge into what is perceive as data collected by the five senses such as eyes, nose, tongue, ears or skin. Their goal is to achieve the facts that rule the organisation as they believe that by identifying the facts, they are capable to capture the plan and achieve the goal of an organisation, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness.
Power, control and conflict
Modernist perspective view power as a unity of science and see it as an asset that is held by a particular group or individual. They believe that with authority comes power and in order to gain authority and power is to implement a structure strategy in an organisation. Hence, the strategy that is based on hierarchy through the management such as the level of management is established. For example employee is the most basic, manager is the level above employee, and CEO is the level above manager (Hatch and Cunliffe 2006).
Additionally, in order to maintain authority and power, modernist believe in adopting strategy such as time motion studies and deskilling is