PAP 3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deconstruction, Intersubjectivity, Hawthorne Effect

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 3370
• Professor: jonathanpaquette

Document Summary

Industrial revolution and its associated social problems drove state expansion. Territorial expansion of states contributed to growth. Large organizations can organize and deploy resources more efficiently (follow rules and regulations; more efficient than small) Features: rationalization of people"s lives, hierarchies, people, clear lines of authority, goals, impersonal form of decision-making, rules and regulations govern decisions, collective actors in their own right (e. g. interests and goals) Normative of values, norms (general rules governing behaviors towards achieving a goal, role expectations. Cultural/cognitive beliefs and understandings of how participants share situations and interests. Behavioral power relations and how it shapes behavior. Operates in an environment that engenders co-op with other organizations. Industrial and social psychology what happens to people who are in organization: society sought to understand organizations holistically (organizational theory, behavior and theory seen as mutually informing . Generic tradition of -- developed general body of knowledge. Practitioners of generic tradition believed distinction between public and private did not exist.