Bureaucracy and Alienation: A Dimensional Approach

Bonjean, Charles M.; Grimes, Michael D.

doi:10.2307/2574655

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“…They argue that these combinations can lead to a ''vicious circle of bureaucracy'' and Adler and Borys (1996), Argyris (1990b), Canales (2014), Gulati and Puranam (2009), Lewis (2000), MacDuffie (1995) bureaucratic-conformity rituals (Crozier, 1964;Masuch, 1985;Merton, 1957). In the case of process-oriented collectivist systems, excessive rule making and pressures to follow these rules can trigger psychological stress (Rousseau, 1978), job dissatisfaction (Arches, 1991), powerlessness and self-estrangement (Kakabadse, 1986), anomie (Bonjean & Grimes, 1970), and other dysfunctional responses. At some point, people become ''walled in'' and the cycle stabilizes (Gouldner, 1954) into a low-morale/ low-innovation/high-acquiescence equilibrium (Burns & Stalker, 1961;Morse & Lorsch, 1970;Thompson, 1965).…”

Section: The Disadvantages: Excessive Conformitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Punctuated incongruity: A new approach to managing trade-offs between conformity and deviation

Patil

2014

Research in Organizational Behavior

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Section: The Disadvantages: Excessive Conformitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Punctuated incongruity: A new approach to managing trade-offs between conformity and deviation

Patil

2014

Research in Organizational Behavior

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“…In the sociological literature, which focused mainly on the alienation side of the commitment continuum, concepts such as the following were used to describe the sociological state of alienation or alienation-related conditions (also compare Dean, 1961): apathy (Keniston, 1957), anomie (in the early writings of Durkheim, 1893;Hegel, 1949;Marx, 1963), authoritarianism (Adorno, 1950), automation, bureaucratisation (Bonjean & Grimes, 1970), conformity (Fromm, 1958), cynicism (Merton, 1947), hoboism (Grodzins, 1956), prejudice (Adorno, 1950), psychosis (Jaco, 1954) privatisation (Kris & Leites, 1950), regression (DeGrazia, 1948), political apathy (Rosenberg, 1951), political hyperactivity (Riesman & Glazer, 1950) personalisation in politics (Adorno, 1950) or even suicide (Powell, 1958), which are in most cases related to social-structural conditions. Sociological alienation was thus assessed on a group or a social systems level by using epi-phenomenological categories such as 'powerlessness' and 'normlessness' (Seeman, 1959) to describe socio-pathological conditions.…”

Section: Concept Redundancy and Contaminationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Concept redundancy and contamination in employee commitment research: Current problems and future directions

Roodt

2004

SA j ind psychol

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It is generally accepted that employee commitment has a significant impact on organisational performance. The primary goal of this article is to indicate that the ‘commitment/involvement’ concept did not evolve in an evolutionary and progressive fashion. Several problems in the development course of mainly three streams of research literature are indicated. Arguments are presented for indicating causes of concept contamination and even redundancy. In order to bridge these problems, a motivational approach as an integrating mechanism on a metatheoretical level is presented as a solution. The outcomes thereof should lead to better order on a theoretical level and to the parsimonious use of commitment concepts.<p> <strong>Opsomming</strong> <br>Dit word algemeen aanvaar dat werknemertoewyding ’n duidelike impak op organisasieprestasie het. Die primêre doel van hierdie artikel is om aan te dui dat die ontwikkeling van die ‘betrokkenheid/toewydings-’ konsep nie evolusionêr en progressief verloop het nie. Verskeie probleme in die ontwikkelingsgang van hoofsaaklik drie strome navorsingsliteratuur word aangedui. Argumente word aangevoer wat op oorsake van konsepkontaminasie en selfs -oorbodigheid dui. Ten einde hierdie probleme te oorkom, word ’n motiveringsbenadering as integrerende meganisme op ’n meta-teoretiese vlak as oplossing voorgehou. Die uitkoms daarvan behoort tot beter orde op teoretiese vlak en tot die spaarsamige gebruik van toewydingskonsepte te lei

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“…Some of these studies have used general scales with samples in specific settings (e.g., Seeman and Evans 1967;Bonjean and Grimes 1970), while others have developed specific situational scales (e.g., Holian 1972;Shepard and Panko 1974). On the other hand, both Burbach (1972) and Wahba (1980) present evidence which questions the superiority of situational scales over general scales.…”

Section: Findings and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%