Garbage can model
Garbage can model
Past questions
1, what is it about organizations that have meant that we have ended up with a garbage can theory of decision making?
2, under what organizational conditions would the garbage can theory of decision making apply?
Watson, 2006
Within the micropolitics, numerous goals and purposes
The outcomes of every political engagement will strengthen the strategic position of the organization and compromise the organization’s long-term survival.
The official structure and culture of the org (the formal blue print or ‘organizational design’, calculations and actions of organizational actors) contributes to the negotiated order of the organization.
According to the control system and a narrowing career ladder, we see a pattern of order in which things seem ‘very organised’ and ‘disorganised’ – anarchic even.
Organized anarchy was used to capture the quality of organizational life
The term usefully brings out the rather paradoxical quality of all organizational processes: their tendency, at the same time, to be both very organized and ‘very disorganized’.
The garbage can model of organizational choice developed by these same researchers can usefully help us see how this ‘disorganized-organization’ quality of organized life manifests itself in decision making situations in organizations generally.
Definition: garbage can model of organizational choice
Organizational decisions are influenced by the various problems that exist at the time of the decision; the various available solutions which might be attached to these problems; the people who are around at the time; the amout of time these people have available.
GC help us understand further the way that the general negotiated order of an organization comes about by focusing on the specific processes that occur in particular decision-making or organizational choice events.
GC make us aware that there are plenty of other factors ‘at play’ when managers meet to
Past questions
1, what is it about organizations that have meant that we have ended up with a garbage can theory of decision making?
2, under what organizational conditions would the garbage can theory of decision making apply?
Watson, 2006
Within the micropolitics, numerous goals and purposes
The outcomes of every political engagement will strengthen the strategic position of the organization and compromise the organization’s long-term survival.
The official structure and culture of the org (the formal blue print or ‘organizational design’, calculations and actions of organizational actors) contributes to the negotiated order of the organization.
According to the control system and a narrowing career ladder, we see a pattern of order in which things seem ‘very organised’ and ‘disorganised’ – anarchic even.
Organized anarchy was used to capture the quality of organizational life
The term usefully brings out the rather paradoxical quality of all organizational processes: their tendency, at the same time, to be both very organized and ‘very disorganized’.
The garbage can model of organizational choice developed by these same researchers can usefully help us see how this ‘disorganized-organization’ quality of organized life manifests itself in decision making situations in organizations generally.
Definition: garbage can model of organizational choice
Organizational decisions are influenced by the various problems that exist at the time of the decision; the various available solutions which might be attached to these problems; the people who are around at the time; the amout of time these people have available.
GC help us understand further the way that the general negotiated order of an organization comes about by focusing on the specific processes that occur in particular decision-making or organizational choice events.
GC make us aware that there are plenty of other factors ‘at play’ when managers meet to
Links: Other information (in my essay ^^) Moreover, garbage can model was developed to explain the decision making in high ambiguous settings called organized anarchy (Cohen, March and Olsen, 1972) Organized anarchy, which is characterized by rapid change and a collegial, nonbureaucratic, is an extremely organic organization (Daft, 2007). Choice opportunities (occasions when an organization makes a decision) (Eisenhardt and Zbaracki, 1992). Organized anarchies / garbage can model properties Ref：a garbage can model of organizational (Cohen, March and Olsen, 1972) It pay more attention to the importance of chance, and it gets decided depends on timing and luck strongly. It lacks the clear beginning and ending of rational models (Daft, 2007).