Organizations and their Effectiveness (2019)



This is a page to collect resources, links, and supplementary information related to the Summer Institute on Organizations and their Effectiveness (2019) held at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University.

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Workshop Information

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Previous sessions
There are pages in this wiki created in previous sessions:


 * Organizations and their Effectiveness (2016)
 * Organizations and their Effectiveness (2017)

Papers and Links
Some papers that came up in our discussions include....

Visit from Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

 * Tino Cuéllar's website
 * Partnership for Public Service is the non-profit organization arguing for increased civil service that Cuéllar thought did not do enough to emphasize the benefits that come from political appointments coming in

Bob's Round 2 (Wednesday, 7/10th)

 * Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes — OB book with the "three lenses:" (1) organizations as machines' (2) organizations as politics; and (3) organizations as culture

Questions and Answers
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What's the Weberian bureaucracy?
There's a section on the section on Weber's theory in the Wikipedia article about bureaucracy. According to that summary, key features include:


 * hierarchical organization
 * formal lines of authority (chain of command)
 * fixed area of activity
 * rigid division of labor
 * regular and continuous execution of assigned tasks
 * all decisions and powers specified and restricted by regulations
 * officials with expert training in their fields
 * career advancement dependent on technical qualifications
 * qualifications evaluated by organizational rules, not individuals

Key for colors in Bob's slides

 * Orange : Unsolved political problems (UpPs) — invisible hand not working
 * Purple : "there is a boss"; e.g., firms, formal organizations
 * Green : organized (but not an organization) — communities, etc.
 * Blue : formal governance (algothirms, contracts)
 * Red : informal governance
 * Black (sometimes): Solved political Problems (SpP) — solved by a market