Organizations and their structures - Book - episodic interventions in organizational structures
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We argue interventions to be value-laden because we want to improve S functioning relative to G, because we value G. What are the three relevant implications regarding this understanding?
2. Different people might have different goals and values at the same time. So interventions might be valued differently among people.
3. End and values of intervention must be introduced. In this, ethical considerations are introduced as well. Meaning that interventions are not only goal-rational, but also value-rational.
What is meant by interventions not only being goal rational, but also value-rational?
What is the object of an intervention?
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Experimental knowledge and scientific knowledge contribute to the technical expertise of the persons performing the intervention. What is the difference between those types of knowledge?
Regarding episodic interventions in organizational structures, organizations are involved in organizational flux. What is meant by this?
Elaborate on why organizational interventions are considered to be for by and in organizations
By; organizations make improvements to reach their goals, this must be done by the organization.
In; objects of organizational interventions are organizational and therefore are done in an organization.
Why are organizational infrastructures important for meaningful survival?
What are the similarities and the difference between continuous interventions and episodic interventions?
Continuous interventions:
- local, improving and gradual character
- Formal and informal part of daily work
- Embedded in the organization and therefore do not require an additional intervention organization
Episodic interventions;
- Comprehensive
- Transforming
- Coherent
- Break with daily activities
- 'Episode' --> temporary
- require a temporary and additional intervention, on top of the existing organization.
What are two triggers of episodic interventions?
2. Recurrent or engrained (ingebakken) problems that are caused by the structure.
What are self-inhibiting structures?
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