Anchorage in Organization

This paper presents a theory of participant behavior in (hospital) organizations which integrates internal and external influences on such behavior. Emphasis is placed upon the relationship between extra-organizational variables (especially ascribed and achieved statuses) and model types of organizational “anchorages”—in the authority system, in the co-worker system and in the clientele system. The analytical connection between organizational anchorages and extra-organizational variables is made in terms of a theory of status deficits and surpluses. The hypothesis developed is that participants with lower status in the society-at-large have status deficits which lead to “authority anchorage” in the organizational system. Alternative anchorages of other participants are discussed as well

Dialectic · Economics · Epistemology · Knowledge management · Management · Organizational architecture · Organizational Behavior · Organizational commitment · Organizational systems · Organizational theory · Computer Science · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology