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GROUP IDEOLOGIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
Author(s) -
WATSON TONY J.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of management studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.398
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1467-6486
pISSN - 0022-2380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1982.tb00108.x
Subject(s) - ideology , relevance (law) , organizational change , sociology , organizational theory , process (computing) , class (philosophy) , organizational studies , public relations , political science , organizational culture , epistemology , positive economics , management , economics , law , politics , computer science , philosophy , operating system
Recent developments in organization theory have seen an increase in the amount of attention being paid to competing interests and definitions of situations existing within organizations. Greater emphasis is being put on ‘micropolitics’ and on various non‐rational aspects of behaviour. In line with these developments, the concept of ‘group ideology’ is used to analyze the ways in which various interests were articulated and mobilized around in a case of major organizational change in an engineering company. The relevance of social class factors to the process of organizational change is given particular attention.