Review of Lawrence Bohr's Organization Technology and Organization Structure
Organization Technology and Organization Structure
Lawrence B. Mohr
This research paper examines the technology-structure dependence. Both subjective and objective data were used to explore the degree of relationship between the organizational technology and organizational structure. The analysis of various therories and the data given concludes that technology may be related to structure but not substantially. It is also unwise a priori to expect spans of control, existence of written rules, and participativeness all to bear the same relationship to a fourth variable because they are all part of organizational structure. In present case, participative supervision was selected as the dependent variable of interest because of its potential effect on the satisfaction and self-fulfilment of employees and on organizational goal achievement.
Lawrence B Mohr is the author of this article. He has worked as a public health advisor, Research and demonstration grant consultant for the US Public Health Service from 1957 to 1963. His main teaching areas include Organizational theory, design and behaviour, statistics, public program evaluation and philosophy of social research. He has contributed in several books and monographs. Some of his books include Explaining Organizational Behavior: The Limits and Possibilities of Theory and Research and The Causes of Human Behavior: Implications for Theory and Method in the Social Sciences. He has also written a lot of journal articles and papers.Some of his works include Determinants of Innovation in Organizations and The Concept of Organizational Goal.The target audiences for his research work are the people in the realms of political science and administration.
Assumptions
The author’s analysis is based on 144 work groups from 13 local health departments, which were randomly selected from among all the agencies in U.S. serving a population greater than 4,00,000. The groups used in the
Lawrence B. Mohr
This research paper examines the technology-structure dependence. Both subjective and objective data were used to explore the degree of relationship between the organizational technology and organizational structure. The analysis of various therories and the data given concludes that technology may be related to structure but not substantially. It is also unwise a priori to expect spans of control, existence of written rules, and participativeness all to bear the same relationship to a fourth variable because they are all part of organizational structure. In present case, participative supervision was selected as the dependent variable of interest because of its potential effect on the satisfaction and self-fulfilment of employees and on organizational goal achievement.
Lawrence B Mohr is the author of this article. He has worked as a public health advisor, Research and demonstration grant consultant for the US Public Health Service from 1957 to 1963. His main teaching areas include Organizational theory, design and behaviour, statistics, public program evaluation and philosophy of social research. He has contributed in several books and monographs. Some of his books include Explaining Organizational Behavior: The Limits and Possibilities of Theory and Research and The Causes of Human Behavior: Implications for Theory and Method in the Social Sciences. He has also written a lot of journal articles and papers.Some of his works include Determinants of Innovation in Organizations and The Concept of Organizational Goal.The target audiences for his research work are the people in the realms of political science and administration.
Assumptions
The author’s analysis is based on 144 work groups from 13 local health departments, which were randomly selected from among all the agencies in U.S. serving a population greater than 4,00,000. The groups used in the
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