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The author asserts in this text that what most influences the way managers handle routine conflicts are the cultures created by their company's organizational structure: whether there is a strong hierarchy, a weak hierarchy, or an absence of any strong central authority.

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1: Introduction. 2: Setting the Scene. 3: Patterns of Conflict Management in Thirteen Executive Contexts. 4: Modern Times: Authoritative Conflict Management in a Mechanistic Bureaucracy. 5: Silent Hives: Minimalistic Conflict Management in an Atomistic Organization. 6: Brave New World: Reciprocal Conflict Management in a Matrix System. 7: Conclusion: Orthodoxy, Change, and Identity. Appendix A: Anatomy of an Ethnography of Business Elites. Appendix B: Aggregate Comparati ve Data. Appendix C: Glossary of Native Terms at Playco.

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 October 1996
      ISBN-13 9780226538747
      978-0226538747
      ISBN-10 0226538745
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      Management decision making Organizational theory and behaviour

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The author asserts in this text that what most influences the way managers handle routine conflicts are the cultures created by their company's organizational structure: whether there is a strong hierarchy, a weak hierarchy, or an absence of any strong central authority.

      Table of Contents
      1: Introduction. 2: Setting the Scene. 3: Patterns of Conflict Management in Thirteen Executive Contexts. 4: Modern Times: Authoritative Conflict Management in a Mechanistic Bureaucracy. 5: Silent Hives: Minimalistic Conflict Management in an Atomistic Organization. 6: Brave New World: Reciprocal Conflict Management in a Matrix System. 7: Conclusion: Orthodoxy, Change, and Identity. Appendix A: Anatomy of an Ethnography of Business Elites. Appendix B: Aggregate Comparati ve Data. Appendix C: Glossary of Native Terms at Playco.

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