[P2P-F] Fwd: Chester Barnard - Resilience ( as organizational efficiency ) through motive satisfaction ?

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:51 AM
Subject: Chester Barnard - Resilience ( as organizational efficiency )
through motive satisfaction ?
To: econowmix at googlegroups.com, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Barnard

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Barnard>Barnard looked at
organizations as systems of cooperation of human activity, and noted that
they are typically short-lived. It is rare for a firm to last more than a
century. Similarly most nations last for less than a century. The only
organization that can claim a substantial age is the Roman Catholic
Church<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church>.
According to Barnard, organizations are not long-lived because they do not
meet the two criteria necessary for survival:
effectiveness<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effectiveness>
 and efficiency <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_efficiency>.
Effectiveness, is defined the usual way: as being able to accomplish stated
goals. In contrast, Barnard's meaning of organizational efficiency differed
substantially from the conventional use of the word. He defined efficiency
of an organization as the degree to which that organization is able to
satisfy the motives <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives> of the
individuals. If an organization satisfies the motives of its members while
attaining its explicit goals, cooperation among its members will last.



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