Manager-Organization Linkages: The Impact of Changing Work Environments.
Abstract
The work environment faced by the modern manager is multi-faceted, having at a minimum socio-normative, economic and technological aspects. Through analysis of current trends toward change in the nature of this complex environment, it appears feasible to build a scenario for the last quarter of the 20th century. A potentially critical problem that will face organizations during that quarter-century will be that of gaining and maintaining sufficiently sturdy linkages of managers to their organizations. Several predictable changes in the work environment will tend to undermine what are now believed to be the antecedents to organizational attachment. This paper discusses the forces that appear to bind managers psychologically to their organizations, in the context of projected environmental changes, and develops a set of propositions that could guide organizational action and research dealing with these issues. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA079120
Entities
People
- Harold L. Angle
- Lyman Porter
- Richard M. Steers
- Richard T. Mowday
Organizations
- University of Oregon