Richard L Daft
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard L Daft |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard L |
| FAMILY NAME | Daft |
| SIGNATURE | DAFT R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mitchell Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Teaching Complex Organizations
In this essay I briefly review six books that could be used as texts in teaching complex organizations. I began my quest for appropriate textbooks to review by examining a draft of Thomas Drabek's article, the Sociology of Complex Organizations, which also appears in this issue of Teaching Sociology. He identified six texts as excellent, but two of them were considerably dated (1979, 1981) and more recent editions were not available. In addition
Media Symbolism, Media Richness, and Media Choice in Organizations
Symbolic interactionism is presented as a theoretical approach for understanding media choice processes during managerial communications. In an exploratory study, 65 managers from 11 organizations were interviewed about communication incidents involving face-to-face, telephone, electronic mail, and written media. Managers were asked the reasons they chose the particular medium. A content analysis of the reasons suggests that three factors influen…
Message Equivocality, Media Selection, and Manager Performance
A field study of middle- and upper-level managers was undertaken to explain managers’ selection of communication media. The findings indicate that media vary in their capacity to convey information cues. Managers prefer rich media for ambiguous communications and less rich media for unequivocal communications. The data suggest that high performing managers are more sensitive to the relationship between message ambiguity and media richness than lo…
Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design
This paper answers the question, “Why do organizations process information?” Uncertainty and equivocality are defined as two forces that influence information processing in organizations. Organization structure and internal systems determine both the amount and richness of information provided to managers. Models are proposed that show how organizations can be designed to meet the information needs of technology, interdepartmental relations, and …
Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems
Inferences about Economies of Scale DO Depend on the Form of Statistical Analysis
Feinberg and Trotta report simulation experiments of administrative scale relationships that show inference inconsistency across statistical models. Their findings are contrasted with our previous analysis (MacMillan and Daft, a) that reported inference consistency across statistical models with respect to definitional dependency. This paper reconciles the two sets of findings by concluding that definitional dependency is not a problem in ratio v…
Relationships among Ratio Variables with Common Components
This paper examines relationships among ratio variables with common components. Simulation experiments are reported in which data samples with known relationships between ratios are analyzed. Observed ratio correlations are then compared to the known relationships. The simulation findings tentatively suggest the absence of bias or spurious correlation. The sharp contrast between our findings and the results of simulation experiments carried out b…
Managerial, Institutional, and Technical Influences on Administration
Journal Article Managerial, Institutional, and Technical Influences on Administration: A Longitudinal Analysis Get access Richard L. Daft, Richard L. Daft Texas A & M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Selwyn W. Becker Selwyn W. Becker University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 59, Issue 2, December 1980, Pages 392–413, https…
Administrative Intensity and Ratio Variables
Structural Control Models of Organizational Change
Administrative Intensity and Ratio Variables
Structural Control Models of Organizational Change
Relationships among Ratio Variables with Common Components
This paper examines relationships among ratio variables with common components. Simulation experiments are reported in which data samples with known relationships between ratios are analyzed. Observed ratio correlations are then compared to the known relationships. The simulation findings tentatively suggest the absence of bias or spurious correlation. The sharp contrast between our findings and the results of simulation experiments carried out b…
Structural Control Models of Organizational Change
Administrative Intensity and Ratio Variables
Relationships among Ratio Variables with Common Components
This paper examines relationships among ratio variables with common components. Simulation experiments are reported in which data samples with known relationships between ratios are analyzed. Observed ratio correlations are then compared to the known relationships. The simulation findings tentatively suggest the absence of bias or spurious correlation. The sharp contrast between our findings and the results of simulation experiments carried out b…
Managerial, Institutional, and Technical Influences on Administration
Journal Article Managerial, Institutional, and Technical Influences on Administration: A Longitudinal Analysis Get access Richard L. Daft, Richard L. Daft Texas A & M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Selwyn W. Becker Selwyn W. Becker University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 59, Issue 2, December 1980, Pages 392–413, https…
Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems
Inferences about Economies of Scale DO Depend on the Form of Statistical Analysis
Feinberg and Trotta report simulation experiments of administrative scale relationships that show inference inconsistency across statistical models. Their findings are contrasted with our previous analysis (MacMillan and Daft, a) that reported inference consistency across statistical models with respect to definitional dependency. This paper reconciles the two sets of findings by concluding that definitional dependency is not a problem in ratio v…
Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design
This paper answers the question, “Why do organizations process information?” Uncertainty and equivocality are defined as two forces that influence information processing in organizations. Organization structure and internal systems determine both the amount and richness of information provided to managers. Models are proposed that show how organizations can be designed to meet the information needs of technology, interdepartmental relations, and …
Media Symbolism, Media Richness, and Media Choice in Organizations
Symbolic interactionism is presented as a theoretical approach for understanding media choice processes during managerial communications. In an exploratory study, 65 managers from 11 organizations were interviewed about communication incidents involving face-to-face, telephone, electronic mail, and written media. Managers were asked the reasons they chose the particular medium. A content analysis of the reasons suggests that three factors influen…
Message Equivocality, Media Selection, and Manager Performance
A field study of middle- and upper-level managers was undertaken to explain managers’ selection of communication media. The findings indicate that media vary in their capacity to convey information cues. Managers prefer rich media for ambiguous communications and less rich media for unequivocal communications. The data suggest that high performing managers are more sensitive to the relationship between message ambiguity and media richness than lo…
Teaching Complex Organizations
In this essay I briefly review six books that could be used as texts in teaching complex organizations. I began my quest for appropriate textbooks to review by examining a draft of Thomas Drabek's article, the Sociology of Complex Organizations, which also appears in this issue of Teaching Sociology. He identified six texts as excellent, but two of them were considerably dated (1979, 1981) and more recent editions were not available. In addition
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