MGMT 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Organisation Climate, Organizational Culture
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Schneider believes that the attributes of people (not the external environment, technology, or organizational structure) determine the organizational behavior. Propositions: experimental laboratories mask the display of individual preferences. This method is inappropriate for studying the relative contributions of traits and situations to understanding behavior: people are not randomly assigned to real organizations. People select themselves into and out of real organizations: people and human settings are inseparable. People are the setting because it is they who make the setting: attraction to an organization, selection by it, and attrition from it yield particular kinds of persons in an organization. These people determine organizational behavior: attraction to an organization and attrition from it produce restriction in range in the kinds of people in an organization. Organizations are functions of the kinds of people they contain, and the people are functions of an attraction-selection- attrition (asa) cycle. It"s hard to bring about change in organizations.
