Organizational Cybernetics and Human Values

Ericson, Richard F.

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“…The PAVT combines the logical structure of thematic apperception test, known also as the picture interpretation technique (Murray, ), with the logical structure of value surveys (Ericson, ; Rokeach, ; Schwartz, , ; Hofstede et al ., ; Barile, ). More precisely, the general technique of picture apperception was combined with Barile's survey on categorical values (Barile, ).…”

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Modelling and Measuring Group Cohesiveness with Consonance: Intertwining the Sociometric Test with the Picture Apperception Value Test

2016

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The purpose of this research is to model, measure and explain group cohesiveness through consonance. For this aim, we propose a holistic framework that combines the sociometric test with the novel Picture Apperception Value Test for defining group cohesiveness by assessing interpersonal attraction of group members through categorical values. The research approach is quantitative, classified both as inferential and quasi‐experimental. Findings indicate that the holistic framework serves as an effective model for measuring group cohesiveness, much more that it can be the sociometric test alone. Research originality and value derives from the fact of combining one existing and consolidated tool like the sociometric test, with an innovative tool like Picture Apperception Value Test for the measurement of group cohesiveness. Regarding practical implications, through the first instrument it is possible to create groups; with the second, it is possible to measure in a new way the interpersonal attraction based on individual's value system. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Modelling and Measuring Group Cohesiveness with Consonance: Intertwining the Sociometric Test with the Picture Apperception Value Test

2016

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“…19 Some scholars of organization theory feel the need to abandon this trend of historical discontinuity. 20 They argue that there is a clear need to challenge management theories based on pure scientism. They also challenge the widely held view that natural sciences' models, and not history, can formulate general laws and universal hypotheses which can explain organizational phenomena.…”

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Civilization as a Theoretical Framework to Study and Analyze Organization Theory with Islamic Way Forward

Yazdani¹,

Abbas²

2019

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This paper posits civilization as a theoretical construct to study and analyze organization theory. Contextualization of organization theory has mostly centered on the constructs of culture and society and civilization is not posited as an organization theory episteme. This paper conceptualizes civilization as its foundational values or core essence or deep cognitive roots. The paper employs civilization as a theoretical construct in the backdrop of ethical, institutional, population ecology, and diffusion of knowledge theories of organization theory. It also seeks to posit civilization as an organizational metaphor and knowledge paradigm. It also presents a four-tiered conceptual framework which captures the value hierarchy of each of its four constituent components: civilization, culture, organizational systems and management models. After analyzing traditional organization theory along with its various faces it raises the question of what is way forward for traditional organization theory (TOT) and presents Prophetic (SAW) Organization Theory (POT) as a strong, viable alternative with supporting arguments of great scholars of East and West with special focus on Islamic, Western and Chinese civilizations.

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Organizational Cybernetics and Human Values

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Modelling and Measuring Group Cohesiveness with Consonance: Intertwining the Sociometric Test with the Picture Apperception Value Test

Modelling and Measuring Group Cohesiveness with Consonance: Intertwining the Sociometric Test with the Picture Apperception Value Test

Civilization as a Theoretical Framework to Study and Analyze Organization Theory with Islamic Way Forward

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