This quantitative study included participants from the field of firefighting, specifically in wildfire fighting. While recognizing that wildfire management involves various industries and managers that do not physically fight the fires, the study focused specifically on those who come in contact with fires. Using some of the theory behind HROs, the authors sought to understand the […]
Author: Jared Padgett
Taking Personal Change Seriously: The Impact of Organizational Learning on Management Practice
To detect an error is to acknowledge incompetence. Doing so publicly in a work setting is often seen as ‘career limiting,’ discouragement enough even if it wasn’t also personally threatening. This article is a review of the impact the book, Organizational Learning, has had on management practice since its publication. Though there are flaws in the traditional […]
Innovation in Organizations from a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
In this article, organizations were described as being composed of people who undergo growth through individual innovation and self organization. An individual belongs to a number of larger, more complex groups, ranging from the immediate team in a department to the corporation or business entity as a whole, then ultimately society as a whole. Though the […]
Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics: The Challenge of Complexity
The author discussed the connection between chaos theory and organizational dynamics, and asserted that complexity theory has its roots at least in part in scientific chaos theory. The author looked at convection theory and discussed the change in the environment in a pot of water as it is placed over heat. When equilibrium is no […]
The Essence of Management Decision
The authors described the concept of management decisions in a business environment . They identify the tendency of research to focus on the decision maker, or even the decision itself, without really understanding the bigger picture. This article distinguished daily operation decision making from big picture decision making. These are broken into “Category I” and “Category II” decisions, […]