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Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom
A Case Study of a Canadian Healthcare Authority
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eBook - ePub
Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom
A Case Study of a Canadian Healthcare Authority
About this book
Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom demonstrates that organizations can act wisely. A critical realist framework and phonetic research approach is used to perform an embedded single case study of a group's attempt to develop and spread a medical innovation within a Canadian healthcare authority.
The study's exploration of how to spread innovation through a healthcare system will help readers to gain insight into why groups resist change and how individuals can exercise their values, rationality, and power to overcome this resistance. Presenting a framework to conceptualize and study wisdom, the book identifies that values guide wise action, that knowledge is required but insufficient for wisdom, and finally that wisdom is action-oriented. The results of the case study demonstrate the power that values possess to drive organizational behaviour.
Offering a unique insight into how values, rationality, and power interact in a real social setting, the book explores how these interactions can both drive and resolve conflict, but also create positive change. Through this understanding, academic and students of management and organizations can create a discipline of scholarship and teaching that fosters the development of organizational wisdom.
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Yes, you can access Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom by Brad C. Anderson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Business General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Chapter 1 Study Overview
- Chapter 2 Overview of Organizational Wisdom
- Chapter 3 Values and Rationality
- Chapter 4 Power and the Nature of Pluralistic Organizations
- Chapter 5 Theoretical Frameworks
- Chapter 6 Methods
- Chapter 7 The Values Inherent in the Seniors Programme
- Chapter 8 Managing Executive Resistance
- Chapter 9 Binding the Organization to the Seniors Programme
- Chapter 10 Multiple Rationalities at Play
- Chapter 11 Reifying Power
- Chapter 12 Structures Constraining Spread
- Chapter 13 Structures Enabling Spread
- Chapter 14 Discussion: Values, Rationality, and Power
- Chapter 15 Was the Use of Power Consistent with the Values of Canada’s Healthcare System?
- Chapter 16 What’s to Be Done? Facilitating the Development of Organizational Wisdom
- Chapter 17 Wisdom’s Future
- Appendix
- References
- Index