The Role of Social Consensus as a Conditioner in Organizational Planned Change.
Abstract
The study examines the role of social consensus in conditioning certain kinds of organizational change and development. 332 groups selected from six main industrial settings represented by twenty organizations served to test the relationship between social consensus and organizational change. Findings demonstrate a direct positive correlation between degree of consensus and level of participative-collaborative behavior of supervisors as well as of subordinates. Initial degrees of social consensus were found to produce differential rates of change over time in organizational behavior. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0731669
Entities
People
- Yitzhak Samuel
Organizations
- University of Michigan