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Contemporary organizational theory and higher education: A mismatch
Author(s) -
Hall Richard H.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
new directions for higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0741
pISSN - 0271-0560
DOI - 10.1002/he.36919813505
Subject(s) - higher education , certainty , organizational theory , organizational learning , organizational studies , organization development , organizational change , organizational behavior and human resources , theory x and theory y , sociology , public relations , organizational commitment , organizational engineering , epistemology , political science , pedagogy , management , economics , philosophy , law
Contemporary organizational theory is not providing the kind of guidance that it could and should for practitioners in higher education, as well as in other organizations. The author suggests that the issue of goals should be reintroduced into organizational theory, that certainty is just as important as uncertainty, and that it is misleading to conceive of higher education as a loosely coupled organizational form.