Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Name
Roll Number
G Abhishek Rao
14S602
Gaurav Rajiv Gupte
14S618
Pooja Jain
14S631
Souvik Sarkar
14S649
Sanyashree
14810
Review of research paper by group AF1 (Section 6)
INTRODUCTION
This research paper is aimed at finding out the relationship between
centralisation and other structural properties present in an organisation. In
this review we took into consideration various aspects like centralisation,
formalisation and complexity. This further made us rely on issues like
occupational specialisation, professional training, job codification and rule
observation. The authors Jerald Hage and Michael Aiken have defined the
degree of formalisation and the degree of complexity as two critical
aspects where the former variable represented the relative emphasis on
the use of rules, the red tape of bureaucracy, while relative emphasis on
professional training and occupational skills was emphasised by the latter.
Target Audience
Jerald Hage is a Professor Emeritus and Co-Director of Centre for
Innovation, University of Maryland. He has developed various theories of
innovation and empathised with the organisational problems. His major
goal is to write a theory of societal change that respects alterative
pathways and distinct historical periods.
Michael Aiken is currently the Director of Communication, Research &
Evaluation in the National Transformation Program at the Office of the
Prime Minister, Jamaica House.
They both are concerned with the societal issues and the problems faced
in the organisation. Thus, they publish research papers for organisations
and so various organisations and students from various B-schools are their
target audience.
ABSTRACT
Within an organization the centralisation and the related structural
properties such as formalisation and complexity have been subjected to
review by various eminent authors:
AUTHOR
Michael Crozier
Tannenbaum and Massarik and Worthy
PERSPECTIVE/CONTRIBUTION
Distribution of Power
Importance of allocation of power in an
organisation.
Implication of decentralisation
Max Weber
Hierarchy of authority
In this research, the relationships between centralisation and these
structural properties has been examined by the authors:
They are examining two ways in which distribution of power can be
measured in the sixteen health and welfare organizations taken under
consideration
Degree of
Centralisati
on
Hierarchy
of Authority
Exhibit 1
Participatio
n in
Descision
Making
Structural Properties:
This research paper describes three main components of the
organizational structure: Centralization, Formalization and Complexity.
The degree to which decision making is placed on a certain individual,
unit or level is called CENTRALIZATION.
FORMALIZATI
ON
JOB
CODIFICATIO
N
COMPLEXITY
NO. OF
OCCUPATION
AL
SPECIALITIES
PROFESSION
AL ACTIVITY
Exhibit 2
ASSUMPTIONS:-
PROFESSION
AL TRAINING
RULE
OBSERVATION
OBSERVATION:
After the study effect of centralization on structural properties were analysed
based on two components of centralization i.e. Participation in Decision
Making and Hierarchy of Authority. Other structural properties that were
taken into consideration were Job Codification, Rule Observation, Number of
Occupational Specialties, Professional Training and Professional Activity. Zero-
CONCLUSION
In a nutshell, this research paper tells us that in determining the
distribution of power in an organization participation in decision making
plays a dominant role. Also there is an inverse relationship between
degree of centralization and degree of complexity. Furthermore greater
occupational speciality results in decentralization.
Also there is scope for finding better indicators to measure organizational
dimensions more comprehensively.