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| Titre : |
Elliott Jaques' concept of "requisite organization" |
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| Numéro : |
06-07 |
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| Année : |
1997 |
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| Volume : |
IV |
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| Auteur(s) : |
Fred EMERY |
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| Résumé : |
Fred Emery's paper is a sharp criricism of Elliott Jaques' approach to organisational design as exposed in his works: "The requisite organization" and "The general theory of bureaunacy". While recognising Jaques' ability "to make organisations work" F. Emery reproaches some basic confusion in his thinking. Jaques for example poses that the master-servant" relation is a task mediated relation. In fact, it is in essence a relation marked by domination, in which task mediation plays only a secondary part. Jaques also advocates the thesis of a radical separation between hierarchy and voluntary association. ln some way, hierarchy in Jaques' views, is antinomic to the notion of team work
Accordingly. it is incumbent on hierarchy to coordinate subordinates work and not on the latter. Such a conception, as F. Emery emphasizes, leads unreasonably to do without the competence of the experts in this matter, who are those who perform the task, that is to say the memhers of the "informal group of peers". Contrary to Jaques' axiom, individuals can be held accountable to their' own groups, not only to the managers. Jaques also mixes up the order in which decision are made and the order of social status, maybe revealing that he has little regard for execution as against programming and planning. Lastly, he wrongly likens the difficulty of the task to its complexity while these two notions are fundamentally different |
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| Pages : |
185 - 194 |
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| Type : |
Studies |
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| Keywords : |
Elliott Jaques, concept, requisite organization |
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