The omnipresent and inevitable conflict is debated a lot in organizational studies. Many researchers study the relationship of conflict management styles and cultural dimensions specifically with individualism collectivism. But these studies deal the culture at a national level aggregately. Hofsete's demarcation of cultures in to individualistic and collectivistic cultures is the basic pillar of such studies in cross cultural comparisons of conflict management styles. In this study, an attempt was made to relate individualism collectivism with conflict management styles at individual levels as all people in a presumed collectivistic/ individualistic culture are not collectivists/ individualists. Getting support from literature, propositions are developed and a model is proposed. Future research directions and prospects are discussed.
{"title":"Conceptualizing the Relationship between Individualism – Collectivism and Conflict Management Styles at Individual Level","authors":"M. Riaz, Syed Zulkifal, Waseef Jamal","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1983846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1983846","url":null,"abstract":"The omnipresent and inevitable conflict is debated a lot in organizational studies. Many researchers study the relationship of conflict management styles and cultural dimensions specifically with individualism collectivism. But these studies deal the culture at a national level aggregately. Hofsete's demarcation of cultures in to individualistic and collectivistic cultures is the basic pillar of such studies in cross cultural comparisons of conflict management styles. In this study, an attempt was made to relate individualism collectivism with conflict management styles at individual levels as all people in a presumed collectivistic/ individualistic culture are not collectivists/ individualists. Getting support from literature, propositions are developed and a model is proposed. Future research directions and prospects are discussed.","PeriodicalId":387810,"journal":{"name":"Internal Communications & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121261397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper discusses recent innovations in social network analysis and social capital research in the context of organizational development. It outlines potential interventions and organizational development arenas where social network analysis can help or improve traditional OD techniques such as survey and feedback, executive coaching and organizational diagnosis. Social Network Analysis has typically been studied in knowledge intensive professions such as consulting but there is reason to believe it has value in non-knowledge intensive and institutionalized settings where social networks act as a helping mechanism affecting productivity. This paper synthesizes social network analysis and organizational development paradigms.
{"title":"Integrating Social Network Analysis & Organizational Development","authors":"Dhruv Sharma","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1906004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1906004","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses recent innovations in social network analysis and social capital research in the context of organizational development. It outlines potential interventions and organizational development arenas where social network analysis can help or improve traditional OD techniques such as survey and feedback, executive coaching and organizational diagnosis. Social Network Analysis has typically been studied in knowledge intensive professions such as consulting but there is reason to believe it has value in non-knowledge intensive and institutionalized settings where social networks act as a helping mechanism affecting productivity. This paper synthesizes social network analysis and organizational development paradigms.","PeriodicalId":387810,"journal":{"name":"Internal Communications & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124868773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper analyzes change and organizational development from the Lacanian paradigm. The desire for change itself as an object is analyzed using Lacanian theory.
本文从拉康范式出发，分析变革与组织发展。改变的欲望本身作为一个对象，是用拉康的理论来分析的。
{"title":"Lacanian Theory and its Relation of Organization Change: A Synthesis","authors":"Dhruv Sharma","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1839987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1839987","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes change and organizational development from the Lacanian paradigm. The desire for change itself as an object is analyzed using Lacanian theory.","PeriodicalId":387810,"journal":{"name":"Internal Communications & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124829956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Words alone are labels and tools that both men and women use to convey or communicate ideas and ideals. In the hands of considerate people, words become an instrument used to cheer up a friend, or to express and share joy with those we love. Birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas and New Year‟s cards are all examples that demonstrate the positive use of words. However, people also use words to hurt, denigrate, incite hate and dehumanize others. Throughout history, men and women have deliberately used words to reduce fellow men and women to abstract, insubstantial and nonrepresentational names such as savage, alien, cripple, virus, parasites, fetus, nigger and kike; these theoretically non-human characterizations enables those who lack sensitivity and genuine concern for others to inflict unimaginable injury deeply wounding our core essence and spirit. At some point, we must draw a line and separate ourselves from those who are insensitive to others and who choose to demonstrate their insensitivity by the choice of words they use to communicate with others. For those self-absorbed, with no particular interest in humanity, this essay will only irritate you to further embrace your “Raison D'etre”. On the other hand, the truly human individual must force her or himself to carefully choose words that not only accurately communicate, but also reflect a deliberate consideration for the sensitivities others.
{"title":"Equality in Communication","authors":"DiMarkco Stephen Chandler","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1813484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1813484","url":null,"abstract":"Words alone are labels and tools that both men and women use to convey or communicate ideas and ideals. In the hands of considerate people, words become an instrument used to cheer up a friend, or to express and share joy with those we love. Birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas and New Year‟s cards are all examples that demonstrate the positive use of words. However, people also use words to hurt, denigrate, incite hate and dehumanize others. Throughout history, men and women have deliberately used words to reduce fellow men and women to abstract, insubstantial and nonrepresentational names such as savage, alien, cripple, virus, parasites, fetus, nigger and kike; these theoretically non-human characterizations enables those who lack sensitivity and genuine concern for others to inflict unimaginable injury deeply wounding our core essence and spirit. At some point, we must draw a line and separate ourselves from those who are insensitive to others and who choose to demonstrate their insensitivity by the choice of words they use to communicate with others. For those self-absorbed, with no particular interest in humanity, this essay will only irritate you to further embrace your “Raison D'etre”. On the other hand, the truly human individual must force her or himself to carefully choose words that not only accurately communicate, but also reflect a deliberate consideration for the sensitivities others.","PeriodicalId":387810,"journal":{"name":"Internal Communications & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123982829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The emerging process view in organization studies conceptualizes organizations as fluid streams of organizing. If, however, organizations are conceived as consisting of something as ephemeral as processes, the question arises how the organization is then able to interconnect the very processes that constitute its existence. For studying this issue of connectivity we draw on one particular stream of process theorizing, that is, the theory of social systems by Niklas Luhmann. He argues that organizations are fundamentally grounded in paradox: they continuously require both to visibilize and to invisibilize the inherent contingency (i.e. alternativity) of processes in order to allow for interconnectivity between them. In this paper, we therefore examine one organizational form where the connectivity between processes is particularly at stake: the project organization. We present the findings of an empirical case study at a globally operating business consulting firm. The study involved the quantitative and qualitative analysis of 565 textual documents collected from cross-project learning databases as well as 14 qualitative interviews. We found that usually all that remains after a project has been completed is a collection of highly condensed PowerPoint documents. The narratives contained in those documents focused on consistency (e.g. highlighting "best practices" or "success stories") rather than contingency (e.g., doubts, mistakes, or alternative paths considered). Consequently, the processuality and contingency of each project remained opaque to non-participants. This also found expression in established practices of hiding the elephant, i.e. disguising the vast contingencies inherent to the processes that constitute the organization.
{"title":"PowerPoint and the Invisibility of Contingency in Project Organizing","authors":"Dennis Schoeneborn","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1833943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1833943","url":null,"abstract":"The emerging process view in organization studies conceptualizes organizations as fluid streams of organizing. If, however, organizations are conceived as consisting of something as ephemeral as processes, the question arises how the organization is then able to interconnect the very processes that constitute its existence. For studying this issue of connectivity we draw on one particular stream of process theorizing, that is, the theory of social systems by Niklas Luhmann. He argues that organizations are fundamentally grounded in paradox: they continuously require both to visibilize and to invisibilize the inherent contingency (i.e. alternativity) of processes in order to allow for interconnectivity between them. In this paper, we therefore examine one organizational form where the connectivity between processes is particularly at stake: the project organization. We present the findings of an empirical case study at a globally operating business consulting firm. The study involved the quantitative and qualitative analysis of 565 textual documents collected from cross-project learning databases as well as 14 qualitative interviews. We found that usually all that remains after a project has been completed is a collection of highly condensed PowerPoint documents. The narratives contained in those documents focused on consistency (e.g. highlighting \"best practices\" or \"success stories\") rather than contingency (e.g., doubts, mistakes, or alternative paths considered). Consequently, the processuality and contingency of each project remained opaque to non-participants. This also found expression in established practices of hiding the elephant, i.e. disguising the vast contingencies inherent to the processes that constitute the organization.","PeriodicalId":387810,"journal":{"name":"Internal Communications & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123253886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marjolein J. W. Harmsen - van Hout, P. Herings, B. Dellaert
We model strategic communication network formation with (i) link specificity: link maintenance lowers specific attention and thus value (negative externality previously ignored for communication) and (ii) value transferability via indirect links for informational but not for social value (positive externality modeled uniformly before). Assuming only social value, the pairwise stable set includes many nonstandard networks under high and particular combinations of complete components under low link specificity. Allowing for social and informational value reduces this set to certain fragmented networks under high and the complete network under low link specificity. These extremes are efficient, whereas intermediate link specificity generates inefficiency.
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At present a new era has evolved in the education sector by means of ICTS. Different ICTs are now set to become instrumental to help expand access to education, strengthen the relevance of education to the increasingly digital workplace, and raise educational quality by, among others, helping make teaching and learning into an engaging, active process connected to real life. The application and exposure to and deployment of ICTs fundamentally change the way education is conceived and delivered to students. ICTs are enablers that optimize student-centered pedagogical methods. Due to its easy accessibility this means of education has become very popular all over the world. Distance education has got a thrust after the evolution of ICT-based education system. This paper intends to give an idea about ICT-based higher education all over the globe and its applicability in Bangladesh. Finally, it analyses the responses from different user groups to query about the current status of the ICT-based higher education system Bangladesh.
{"title":"The Role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Delivering Higher Education – A Case of Bangladesh","authors":"Shahdidul Hoque, S. Alam","doi":"10.5539/IES.V3N2P97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/IES.V3N2P97","url":null,"abstract":"At present a new era has evolved in the education sector by means of ICTS. Different ICTs are now set to become instrumental to help expand access to education, strengthen the relevance of education to the increasingly digital workplace, and raise educational quality by, among others, helping make teaching and learning into an engaging, active process connected to real life. The application and exposure to and deployment of ICTs fundamentally change the way education is conceived and delivered to students. ICTs are enablers that optimize student-centered pedagogical methods. Due to its easy accessibility this means of education has become very popular all over the world. Distance education has got a thrust after the evolution of ICT-based education system. This paper intends to give an idea about ICT-based higher education all over the globe and its applicability in Bangladesh. Finally, it analyses the responses from different user groups to query about the current status of the ICT-based higher education system Bangladesh.","PeriodicalId":387810,"journal":{"name":"Internal Communications & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126729566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Communication is essential for any business operation in this era of globalization. This paper will help to avoid any barriers of Communication. This paper also provide a significant guidance of effective communication.
{"title":"The Barriers of Communication & Guidance of Effective Communication","authors":"M. Abdin","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1133343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1133343","url":null,"abstract":"Communication is essential for any business operation in this era of globalization. This paper will help to avoid any barriers of Communication. This paper also provide a significant guidance of effective communication.","PeriodicalId":387810,"journal":{"name":"Internal Communications & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114653644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Gloor, Daniel Oster, K. Fischbach, Koji Ara, Robert J. Laubacher, Benjamin N. Waber
This paper describes first results of an ongoing research effort using real time data collected by social badges to correlate temporal changes in social interaction patterns with performance of individual actors and groups. Towards that goal we analyzed social interaction among a team of employees at a bank in Germany, and developed a set of interventions for more efficient collaboration. In particular, we were able to identify typical meeting patterns, and to distinguish between creative and high-executing knowledge work based on the interaction pattern.
{"title":"Studying Microscopic Peer-to-Peer Communication Patterns","authors":"P. Gloor, Daniel Oster, K. Fischbach, Koji Ara, Robert J. Laubacher, Benjamin N. Waber","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1097111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1097111","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes first results of an ongoing research effort using real time data collected by social badges to correlate temporal changes in social interaction patterns with performance of individual actors and groups. Towards that goal we analyzed social interaction among a team of employees at a bank in Germany, and developed a set of interventions for more efficient collaboration. In particular, we were able to identify typical meeting patterns, and to distinguish between creative and high-executing knowledge work based on the interaction pattern.","PeriodicalId":387810,"journal":{"name":"Internal Communications & Organizational Behavior eJournal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125971257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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