This approach rejects the container metaphor and understands organizations as communication.
What are constitutive approaches?
100
The idea that communication happens within organizations.
What is the container metaphor?
100
Systems allow information and materials to flow in and out.
What is permeability?
100
Feminism that believes solutions for female subordination should come from within the system and through the creation of better laws and policies.
What is liberal feminism?
100
Taken for granted assumptions about reality that influence how people perceive the world and act. These assumptions are rarely questioned.
What is ideology?
200
This approach encourages participative organizations.
What is human resources approach?
200
The flow that reflects the fact that organizations interact with other organizations and actors.
What is institutional positioning?
200
A system can reach the same final state through a variety of paths.
What is equifinality?
200
Feminism that believes not all women are the same.
What is standpoint/intersectional feminism?
200
The liberation of people from power relations that prevent them from doing or being certain things.
What is emancipation?
300
In this approach, organizations can be compared to organisms.
What is systems approach?
300
A flow that shows that organizations are communicatively constituted by the people who bring the organization into existence and enter and exit over time.
What is membership negotiation?
300
A system is more than the sum of its parts.
What is holism?
300
Feminism that believes gender is entirely socially constructed.
What is postmodern feminism?
300
When a subordinated group accepts their domination as normal.
What is hegemony?
400
An approach that assumes more satisfied employees will be more productive employees.
What is human relations?
400
Substance or meaning.
What is text?
400
This helps a system maintain steady functioning by correcting it.
What is deviation-reducing feedback?
400
Feminism that believes organizations need to be totally remade because they are inherently male.
What is radical feminism?
400
One way that power relations can be present in team-based organizations.
What is concertive control?
500
Theorists who take this approach have the goal of emancipating workers.
What are critical approaches?
500
Ongoing interaction among individuals facilitated by language.
What is conversation?
500
The internal workings of a system must be as diverse and complicated as the environment in which it is embedded.
What is requisite variety?
500
The broader type of approach that feminist approaches are.
What is critical approach?
500
How people exert counterpressure on power and control.