Organizational Structure and Behavior

After completing this chapter, students should be able to 

Discuss the field of organizational behavior and its development over time. 

Describe the basic components of traditional and newer organization forms. 

Compare and contrast different elements of formal and informal organizational structure. 

Discuss the basic incompatibilities between organizational and professional models of structure. 

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Conformance monitoring and inconsistency toleration. Another important feature of our approach (not presented here) is the monitoring and control of the inter-organizational cooperation. Upon modification, each process view is checked by the management system for conformance with the process meta-model of dynamic task nets. Detected violations of structural and behavioral constraints are reported to the process managers. They may either modify the process views in order to re-establish consistency or tolerate the violation. 

As the CAIB concluded, the accident did not have simple and isolated causes. There were many contributing factors, ranging from the environment, to NASA s histoiy, policy and technology, to organizational structures and processes and the behaviors of individual employees and managers. The breadth and complexity of these factors call for a research inquiry that examines both specific factors and their combined effects. The unfortunate precedent of the Challenger disaster in 1986 provides an opportunity to compare two well-documented accidents and consider how NASA developed over time. 

Recently, a further person-centered simulation model was developed by Licht [261] at RWTH Aachen University. It offers an - according to our requirements - more suitable approach for analyzing design and development processes in the chemical industries. The model includes many different specific aspects of the process, such as the type and the complexity of products, the characteristics of employees, tools, and organizational structure, etc. Due to the person-oriented approach, the model also serves as a realistic method for employee management by addressing the employees behavior. A negative... 

Designing organizational structures that encourage healthy and safe working behavior... 

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