Organizational behavior can be viewed from a traditional, a modernist, or a postmodernist perspective. Choose any one topic in organizational behavior and discuss different approaches to that topic that would come from a traditional, a modernist, or a postmodernist perspective.
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Organizational behavior is an incredibly complex and dynamic field of study. Not only are there a number of different avenues of study but within each focus lies a multitude of theories and perspectives. Bolman and Deal (2008) suggest that the best way to traverse this maze is through different lenses or perspectives of the organization (Bolman & Deal, 2008).
While the lenses that Bolman and Deal propose (structural, human resource, political and symbolic) and very useful for a practical approach to organization understanding and management, there are other perspectives that may be more useful from a more theoretical and scholarly approach. These perspectives are the traditional, modernist, and postmodernist approaches to understanding organizational behavior. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: interpretivism, postmodernism, postmodernity, power, public administration
Brandon C.
PAF 602 (Fall 2008)
Farmer, David J., (1995), The language of public administration: bureaucracy, modernity, and postmodernity, The University of Alabama Press.
Abstract
In The Language of Public Administration, David Farmer argues that the modern language of public administration, by which its scholars understand and approach the field (bureaucracy in particular), is limited. He suggests that the language of public administration can be expanded through the advent and acceptance of postmodernity and provides justification through the analysis of distinct characteristics in modernity and postmodernity. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: bureaucracy, David Farmer, deconstruction, deterritorialization, open-source, postmodernity, public administration, rationality
