TY - JOUR
AU - Alutto, Joseph A.
AB - THE ROLE OF CEREMONIALS IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR HARRISON M. TRICE, JAMES BELASCO, and JOSEPH A. ALUTTO phe- Although some researchers continue THE analysis of organizational nu- may be predicated upon to assume that formal industrial systems nomena bases. or empirical merous theoretical have unidimensional goals centering it is to adopt For example, possible around publicly stated organizational analysis of strictly structural Weberian missions, it has been recognized increas- a Parsonian func- authority and power, ingly that organizations allocate consid- be- tional analysis of interdependencies erable human and physical resources to or a tween organizational sub-units, the simultaneous achievement of multi- to the in- "human relations" approach ple goals, many of which appear to pos- and vestigation of individual sentiments sess relevance for the fulfillment of ob- or external group interactions.' internal jectives other than production or prof- in- of these perspectives, however, Each it. Activities directed toward nonpro- that the implicit assumption corporates duction goals have been identified as between discernible links exist directly serving either system maintenance or ad- substance of organiza- the observable and the eventual achieve- aptation functions and have been dis- tional activities goals. ment of specific system cussed most often under the rubric of 
TI - The Role of Ceremonials in Organizational Behavior
JF - ILR Review
DO - 10.1177/001979396902300104
DA - 1969-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-role-of-ceremonials-in-organizational-behavior-HoR0NnRbzM
SP - 40
EP - 51
VL - 23
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -