from conflict-suppression to rational conflict-management : Symposium entitled "Organizational politics: research and concepts" : Papers.
Günter Dlugos
Wiesbaden
Gabler
1993
Content.- What do we really Mean by Power and Politics? A Review of the Literature.- The Study of Power and Politics in Management.- Definitions of Power and Politics.- What Do we Know about Power and Politics?.- Conclusion: The Research Challenge.- A Systems View of Organizational Politics.- Abstract.- A Systems View of Organizational Politics.- The Theoretical Context of the Political Subsystem: The Negotiated Order.- The Role of the Political Subsystem and the Areas It Addresses.- The Elements that Configure the Political Subsystem,.- Conclusion.- Temptations and Dilemmas in the Interpretive Perspective on Organizational Politics.- Organizational Politics from Multiple Perspectives.- A Comparison of Functionalist and Interpretive Perspectives on Politics.- A Case Study of Organizational Budget Setting.- Analysis.- Conclusion.- Towards the Business Politics Approach and the Field of Research.- Types of Political Activities.- The Different Meanings of Policy and Politics.- Central Focus of the Business Politics Approach.- Areas of Investigation.- Conceptual Framework: Relevance and further Development.- Towards a System of Business Political Goal Formulation.- The Elements and Processes of Business Political Goal Formulation.- The Influence of Disposable Power Basis on the Business Political Scope of Action.- The Consequences of Alternative Business Political Actions.- Concluding Remarks.- Conflict Relationships in Organizations A Concept of Measurement.- Why Measurement of Conflicts?.- Previous Methods of Measurement.- Measuring Conflicting Relationships.- Summary and Conclusion.- Conflict-Handling in Industry-Wide Codes.- Definition and Contents of Industry-Wide Codes.- Causes of Conflict in Industry-Wide Codes.- Alternative Methods of Conflict-Handling.- Environmental Delimitation.- Methods of Goal Delimitation.- Conclusion.- The Political Consequences of Organizational Cultures: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures.- Politics and Culture.- Political Consequences.- Information Processing.- Cultural Patterns.- A Typology of Organization Culture.- Implications or Managers.- Conclusion.- The Business-Political Dimension of the Internationalization of Enterprises.- A Case Example of Internationalization.- The Distinction between Strategic and Business Political Decisions of Internationalization.- The Apolitical Approach of Transaction-Cost Theory.- The Perspective of the Business-Politics Concept.- Business-Political Alternatives of Conflict-Handling.