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Organizational Effectiveness: Replacing a Vague Construct with a Defined Concept

  • 1.  Organizational Effectiveness: Replacing a Vague Construct with a Defined Concept

    Posted 07-14-2015 03:30
    Despite 50 years of searching for a workable concept, organizational effectiveness (OE) remains a vague construct and an enigma in OMT, with characteristics of a wicked problem.  OE largely disappeared from the scholarly literature in the mid-1980s, due to the "validity police" who branded it as non-useful and unmeasurable.  Several models of OE have been put forward over the years, but no one has claimed to have defined a concept of organizational effectiveness (i.e., with an objective referent in the real world) ...until  now.  A confirmed concept of OE would be big news in OMT, as scholars have long despaired that such would ever be found.  Can this be the Holy Grail that organizational scholars have searched for all these years?  Could OMT be revitalized because of OE's foundational role?  Come and decide for yourself at AOM 2015.

    When:  Tuesday, August 11, 2015, 11:30 am
    Where:  Vancouver Convention Centre, Room 108, Paper Session #1901 (Refining Key Concepts for Theory and Practice:  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Foresight and Style)


    For further information:
    Charles G. Chandler, Ph.D.
    Assumption Analysis, Inc.
    USA
    email:  cchandler@AssumptionAnalysis.com