제 6장 Interest conflict, and power Organization as political systems
Learning Objectives
1. To illustrate the political dimensions of organizations: how organizations are political systems
2. To develop concrete skills in the political analysis of organizations, using the interests, conflict, power model presented in Chapter 6 of Images
3. To provide a detailed understanding of the nature and use of power in organizations
4. To provide an introduction to the skills of political
management and conflict resolution in pluralist organizations 5. To illustrate that organizations are rationalizing rather than rational and how rationality is best understood through a
concept of political rationality
6. To examine organizations through the lens of comparative government: as unitary, pluralist or radical systems, or in terms of the “forms of rule” illustrated in Exhibit 6.1 of Images
7. To raise the issue of gender and gender-related politics
Organizations as systems of government
Power: "an ability to get another person to do something that he or she would not otherwise have done. (Robert Dahl)
Autocracy: We'll do it this way
Bureaucracy: We've supposed to do it this way
Technocracy: It's best to do it this way
Codetermination
Representation Democracy
Direct Democracy: How shall we do it?
Organization as systems of political activity
1) Interests
Exhibit 6.1 organization interests (P. 153)
Task Career
Personal
2) understanding conflict: system of simultaneous competition and collaboration
3) Exploring power (표 6.2 sources of power in organization)
(1) formal authority
(2) control of scarce resources
(3) use of organization structure, rules, and regulations
(4) control of decision processes
(5) control of knowledge and information
(6) control of boundaries
(7) ability to cope with uncertainty
(8) control of technology
(9) interpersonal alliances, networks, and control of "informal organization"
(10) control of counter organizations
(12) gender and the management of gender relations
(13) structural factors that define the stage of action -underlying structure or logics of change
-deep structure of power - historial perspective.
-people as agents of power relations embedded in the wider structure of society
(14) The power one already has.
그룹 토론
1. 내가 경험한 조직은 어느 정도 정치적 행태가 광범위했는가?
2. 정치, 권력, 영향력, 갈등, 협상, 이해관계의 개념을 가지고 조직을 설명하고 분석한다.
3. 여러분이 사용했던 권력의 근원과 그리고 정치/권력 기술은?
4. 권력을 행사하는 방식과 정치적 행태에서 남녀의 차이는?
