Frank Heller
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3452665 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Frank Heller |
| NOMBRES | Frank |
| APELLIDO | Heller |
| FIRMA | HELLER F |
| AFILIACIONES | Tavistock Institute |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1961 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Towards a future integrated social science
On the Integration of the Social Sciences
L'A. plaide pour une integration des sciences sociales a travers une relation isomorphique entre les disciplines, les domaines de recherche et les methodes. Apres avoir illustre la necessite de cette approche en exposant quelques exemples de la pluralite des champs d'investigation, l'A. montre en quoi les distinctions entre les paradigmes reposent en fait sur de faibles differences
Organizational Participation
Introduction 1. An Overview 2. Organizational Participation: A View from Psychology 3. Organization Theory and Participation 4. Collective Bargaining, Unions, and Participation 5. Playing the Devil's Advocate: Limits to Influence Sharing in Theory and Practice 6. Participation Works - If Conditions are Appropriate 7. Myth and Reality: Valediction
Decision-making and human factors in the context of privatization and transformation
This contribution is based on a longitudinal research project in six Hungarian companies. The field-work lasted two years and included four years of retrospective tracing of events, giving data covering six years during the transition from centralized state control to attempts at introducing a market economy. The project adopted a micro-economic decision-making perspective to discover critical intra-organizational factors that could account for s…
Organizational participation
In this book four experienced international analysts take the longer view and look at the changing forms of - and changing debates around - 'organizational participation'. They review an extensive literature of experiments and practical experiences through a critical evaluation of the available data to reach balanced conclusions about the importance and utility of this concept for organizations now and in the future.
Influence at Work
Organization of any kind, from prehistoric hunting societies to companies working through the worldwide web, operate with a distribution of influence and power among their members. This distribution of influence has consequences at three levels: for the people working in the organization, for the organization itself, and, from time to time, for members of society outside the organization. A series of action-and policy-oriented projects on the dis…
Participation Works— If Conditions are Appropriate
The theme of this chapter is that, despite its ‘dark side’, just discussed, participation frequently ‘works’. True it works in a variety of ways. But this is understandable given its many forms. Further, it does not always ‘work’. For it to work, certain conditions must be met. Some of these requirements are quite substantial. Participation will not succeed if viewed as merely rhetoric or a gimmick. Success typically requires substantial changes …
Frederick Edmund Emery
Sociotechnology and the Environment
The founders of the sociotechnical model perceived its relevance at the macro level of the community, at the meso level of whole organizations, as well as at the micro level of the primary work systems, but it is at the primary work system that most applications have been carried out. An efficient micro level sociotechnical solution may still cause the technology to have a harmful impact on the environment. An increasing popular awareness of envi…
Group Feedback Analysis Applied to Longitudinal Monitoring of the Decision Making Process
The paper describes the application to longitudinal research of a method of data collection which combines quantitative and qualitative material. It is claimed that Group Feedback Analysis (GFA) helps to validate data collected by various methods and produces additional ethnographic material and insight into the process under investigation. When the people who supply the data are experienced in the subject matter, as is the case with managers and…
Another Look at Action Research
Decisions in Organizations
Introduction Theoretical Considerations Design of the Research Methods and Instruments Participation in Operational Decisions Medium- and Long-Term Decision-Making Qualitative Material to Illustrate the Process of Longitudinal Decision-Making Conclusion
The technological imperative and the quality of employment
This article challenges the widespread concept of a ‘technological imperative’which is alleged to lead to greater economic efficiency. The socio‐technical model, supported by evidence from past research and recent cases, undermines the validity of the ‘imperative’and presents an alternative based on choices
Usefulness of Group Feedback Analysis as a Research Method
This paper describes the use of a field research method called group feedback analysis (GFA) applied in two British companies. The study used two phases of questionnaire administration separated by over 12 months. Three majorfunctions of GFA are elaborated and analyzed with examples based, in part, on tape-recorded sessions: (1) validation of the results; (2) producing a deeper understanding of the data; and (3) providing an opportunity for mutua…
Limits to participative leadership
The research investigated the relationship between managerial decision‐making and a set of specified contingent situational factors: decision type, perceived skill requirements and objective skill inputs. The study was based on 663 German and British managers in two interlocking senior management levels of 37 large enterprises. The data were collected by means of Group Feedback Analysis as part of a large study of managerial decision‐making in ei…
A Longitudinal Study in Participative Decision-Making
A framework and method of a three-country comparative study on the process of participative decision-making is described. Research methods, models, and instruments are developed in the context of a longitudinal de-sign. The major hypotheses relate to the situationally determined relation between power decentralization, skill utilization, and effectiveness. The four-year study hopes to provide at least partial answers to some theoretical as well a…
Towards a practical psychology of work
The argument is put forward that the congruence of scientific standards and social relevance should be positively sought. Such an endeavour will lead to a practical psychology of work in tune with rapid and possibly discontinuous changes in our society. Four major hindrances to such objectives are identified and discussed. There is some evidence that a growing number of psychologists are prepared to advocate a change in philosophy, a wider experi…
Group Feed-Back Analysis as a Change Agent
The Condition of the Federal Employee and How to Change It
The role of Business Management in relation to Economic Development
Group feedback analysis
The Human Side of Enterprise
Organizational Participation
Introduction 1. An Overview 2. Organizational Participation: A View from Psychology 3. Organization Theory and Participation 4. Collective Bargaining, Unions, and Participation 5. Playing the Devil's Advocate: Limits to Influence Sharing in Theory and Practice 6. Participation Works - If Conditions are Appropriate 7. Myth and Reality: Valediction
Influence at Work
Organization of any kind, from prehistoric hunting societies to companies working through the worldwide web, operate with a distribution of influence and power among their members. This distribution of influence has consequences at three levels: for the people working in the organization, for the organization itself, and, from time to time, for members of society outside the organization. A series of action-and policy-oriented projects on the dis…
Group feedback analysis
Group Feed-Back Analysis as a Change Agent
A Longitudinal Study in Participative Decision-Making
A framework and method of a three-country comparative study on the process of participative decision-making is described. Research methods, models, and instruments are developed in the context of a longitudinal de-sign. The major hypotheses relate to the situationally determined relation between power decentralization, skill utilization, and effectiveness. The four-year study hopes to provide at least partial answers to some theoretical as well a…
Another Look at Action Research
Usefulness of Group Feedback Analysis as a Research Method
This paper describes the use of a field research method called group feedback analysis (GFA) applied in two British companies. The study used two phases of questionnaire administration separated by over 12 months. Three majorfunctions of GFA are elaborated and analyzed with examples based, in part, on tape-recorded sessions: (1) validation of the results; (2) producing a deeper understanding of the data; and (3) providing an opportunity for mutua…
On the Integration of the Social Sciences
L'A. plaide pour une integration des sciences sociales a travers une relation isomorphique entre les disciplines, les domaines de recherche et les methodes. Apres avoir illustre la necessite de cette approche en exposant quelques exemples de la pluralite des champs d'investigation, l'A. montre en quoi les distinctions entre les paradigmes reposent en fait sur de faibles differences
Group Feedback Analysis Applied to Longitudinal Monitoring of the Decision Making Process
The paper describes the application to longitudinal research of a method of data collection which combines quantitative and qualitative material. It is claimed that Group Feedback Analysis (GFA) helps to validate data collected by various methods and produces additional ethnographic material and insight into the process under investigation. When the people who supply the data are experienced in the subject matter, as is the case with managers and…
Sociotechnology and the Environment
The founders of the sociotechnical model perceived its relevance at the macro level of the community, at the meso level of whole organizations, as well as at the micro level of the primary work systems, but it is at the primary work system that most applications have been carried out. An efficient micro level sociotechnical solution may still cause the technology to have a harmful impact on the environment. An increasing popular awareness of envi…
The technological imperative and the quality of employment
This article challenges the widespread concept of a ‘technological imperative’which is alleged to lead to greater economic efficiency. The socio‐technical model, supported by evidence from past research and recent cases, undermines the validity of the ‘imperative’and presents an alternative based on choices
Limits to participative leadership
The research investigated the relationship between managerial decision‐making and a set of specified contingent situational factors: decision type, perceived skill requirements and objective skill inputs. The study was based on 663 German and British managers in two interlocking senior management levels of 37 large enterprises. The data were collected by means of Group Feedback Analysis as part of a large study of managerial decision‐making in ei…
The Human Side of Enterprise
The Condition of the Federal Employee and How to Change It
The role of Business Management in relation to Economic Development
Group feedback analysis
Group Feed-Back Analysis as a Change Agent
Towards a practical psychology of work
The argument is put forward that the congruence of scientific standards and social relevance should be positively sought. Such an endeavour will lead to a practical psychology of work in tune with rapid and possibly discontinuous changes in our society. Four major hindrances to such objectives are identified and discussed. There is some evidence that a growing number of psychologists are prepared to advocate a change in philosophy, a wider experi…
Limits to participative leadership
The research investigated the relationship between managerial decision‐making and a set of specified contingent situational factors: decision type, perceived skill requirements and objective skill inputs. The study was based on 663 German and British managers in two interlocking senior management levels of 37 large enterprises. The data were collected by means of Group Feedback Analysis as part of a large study of managerial decision‐making in ei…
A Longitudinal Study in Participative Decision-Making
A framework and method of a three-country comparative study on the process of participative decision-making is described. Research methods, models, and instruments are developed in the context of a longitudinal de-sign. The major hypotheses relate to the situationally determined relation between power decentralization, skill utilization, and effectiveness. The four-year study hopes to provide at least partial answers to some theoretical as well a…
Usefulness of Group Feedback Analysis as a Research Method
This paper describes the use of a field research method called group feedback analysis (GFA) applied in two British companies. The study used two phases of questionnaire administration separated by over 12 months. Three majorfunctions of GFA are elaborated and analyzed with examples based, in part, on tape-recorded sessions: (1) validation of the results; (2) producing a deeper understanding of the data; and (3) providing an opportunity for mutua…
The technological imperative and the quality of employment
This article challenges the widespread concept of a ‘technological imperative’which is alleged to lead to greater economic efficiency. The socio‐technical model, supported by evidence from past research and recent cases, undermines the validity of the ‘imperative’and presents an alternative based on choices
Decisions in Organizations
Introduction Theoretical Considerations Design of the Research Methods and Instruments Participation in Operational Decisions Medium- and Long-Term Decision-Making Qualitative Material to Illustrate the Process of Longitudinal Decision-Making Conclusion
Another Look at Action Research
Group Feedback Analysis Applied to Longitudinal Monitoring of the Decision Making Process
The paper describes the application to longitudinal research of a method of data collection which combines quantitative and qualitative material. It is claimed that Group Feedback Analysis (GFA) helps to validate data collected by various methods and produces additional ethnographic material and insight into the process under investigation. When the people who supply the data are experienced in the subject matter, as is the case with managers and…
Participation Works— If Conditions are Appropriate
The theme of this chapter is that, despite its ‘dark side’, just discussed, participation frequently ‘works’. True it works in a variety of ways. But this is understandable given its many forms. Further, it does not always ‘work’. For it to work, certain conditions must be met. Some of these requirements are quite substantial. Participation will not succeed if viewed as merely rhetoric or a gimmick. Success typically requires substantial changes …
Frederick Edmund Emery
Sociotechnology and the Environment
The founders of the sociotechnical model perceived its relevance at the macro level of the community, at the meso level of whole organizations, as well as at the micro level of the primary work systems, but it is at the primary work system that most applications have been carried out. An efficient micro level sociotechnical solution may still cause the technology to have a harmful impact on the environment. An increasing popular awareness of envi…
Organizational participation
In this book four experienced international analysts take the longer view and look at the changing forms of - and changing debates around - 'organizational participation'. They review an extensive literature of experiments and practical experiences through a critical evaluation of the available data to reach balanced conclusions about the importance and utility of this concept for organizations now and in the future.
Influence at Work
Organization of any kind, from prehistoric hunting societies to companies working through the worldwide web, operate with a distribution of influence and power among their members. This distribution of influence has consequences at three levels: for the people working in the organization, for the organization itself, and, from time to time, for members of society outside the organization. A series of action-and policy-oriented projects on the dis…
Organizational Participation
Introduction 1. An Overview 2. Organizational Participation: A View from Psychology 3. Organization Theory and Participation 4. Collective Bargaining, Unions, and Participation 5. Playing the Devil's Advocate: Limits to Influence Sharing in Theory and Practice 6. Participation Works - If Conditions are Appropriate 7. Myth and Reality: Valediction
Decision-making and human factors in the context of privatization and transformation
This contribution is based on a longitudinal research project in six Hungarian companies. The field-work lasted two years and included four years of retrospective tracing of events, giving data covering six years during the transition from centralized state control to attempts at introducing a market economy. The project adopted a micro-economic decision-making perspective to discover critical intra-organizational factors that could account for s…
On the Integration of the Social Sciences
L'A. plaide pour une integration des sciences sociales a travers une relation isomorphique entre les disciplines, les domaines de recherche et les methodes. Apres avoir illustre la necessite de cette approche en exposant quelques exemples de la pluralite des champs d'investigation, l'A. montre en quoi les distinctions entre les paradigmes reposent en fait sur de faibles differences
Towards a future integrated social science
Psychology (12 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Business (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Engineering (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Complex Systems and Decision Making (4 obras)