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Modern, Critical & Postmodern
Table 8.1.
Conceptions of Power, Control & Conflict
Modern Critical Postmodern
Locus of authority, knowledge, & social, economic & political social relationships;
power resolution of critical problems structures & ideologies discursive & non-discursive
practices
Basis of the right to control challenges owner/shareholder disciplinary power embedded
power production and know-how right to profit; favors in taken for granted discursive
democracy of stakeholder and non-discursive practices
interests
View of rational/political systems systems of exploitation, products & producers of
organizations domination, & resistance; disciplinary power
systematically distorted
communication
Goal to improve organizational to emancipate dominated to interrogate self-disciplinary
efficiency and effectiveness groups; create more behaviors & marginalization
democratic organizations
Implications monitoring employee Hegemony; systematically disciplinary technologies; self-
for control performance; market, distorted communication surveillance
bureaucracy, or clan control processes; false consciousness
View of counterproductive; an inevitable consequence of emerges within power
conflict managed to maximize capitalism and its inequalities. relations; groups contest the
corporate performance Resistance & radical change framing of realities and
subjectivities
A Modernist Definition of Power
Strategic
Power & Politics Contingencies
Resource
Sources of Power
Dependency
Sources of Power
The Political Frame
Critical
Environmental problems/issues
(product development, Person/department
uncertainty new technology, quality,
able to deal with
(economic, technological, employment law)
legal) the problems.
Gains more
Gains power &
power and
resources by helping
resources.
Legitimizes power the organization adapt
& shapes to environmental
organizational demands.
activities.
The Politics of Resource Dependence
Critical
Environmental problems/issues
(product development,
uncertainty new technology, quality, Person/department
(economic, technological, employment law) able to deal with
legal) the problems.
Symbols of power
Gains more
power and Gains power &
resources. resources by helping
Legitimizes power the organization adapt
& shapes to environmental
organizational demands.
activities.
Forms of Control
OUTPUT BEHAVIORAL
GOALS EVALUATION
Contracts
Observation
Information systems
Performance evaluation & rewards
Socialization to common goals
Market Control
Price competition
Profits centers
Output controls
Bureaucratic Control
Hierarchy
Supervision
Rules & procedures
Clan Control
Socialization
Norms & values
Culture
Figure 8.1
MODERNIST Environment
VIEW OF
CONTROL Resource allocations Performance data
PROCESSES
Strategy
Organizational
Goals
Resource allocations Performance data
Critique of Ideology
Workplace
Communicative Democracy
Rationality
The Critique of Ideology
Technology
Strategy
Culture Technology
Interunit conflict
Physical Social
structure structure