组织规章制度与组织决策

本文基于对斯坦福大学组织规章制度演变的研究工作,探讨遵循规章制度的组织行为(简称"循规行为")的基础及其对理解组织决策的意义.在组织学、社会学和心理学的研究成果基础上,本文提出一个更为广阔的循规行为概念,从组织所处的社会环境和文化期待背景下认识组织内的循规行为.作者将个体理性模型与有关集体理性、背景理性的理论思路加以对比,讨论分析那些诱发循规行为的心理和社会机制及其对决策者、决策过程的社会建构所产生的影响;最后将这些观点扩展开来,探讨循规行为对组织灵活性、组织变迁与组织创新的意义.

Organizational Rules and Organizational Decision Making

In this study,I examine the role of rule-following in organizations and its effect on organizational decision making.Drawing on research in organization studies,sociology and psychology,I develop a broad concept of rule-following in the context of social environment and cultural expectations in which formal organizations are situated. By contrasting models of rational choice,collective rationality,and contextual rationality, I discuss those psychological and social mechanisms that induce rule-following beha...