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Dissertation . Theory W .
Pages 6 and 7 of the thesis provides the basis for the following web page links.
Chapter contents and Page --- Summary - 3, Acknowledgement - 9, Preface - 21, Contents including figures & tables - 68, Glossary - 78, Introduction - 108, Chapter 1 Industrial administrative history - 134, Chapter 2 Educational administrative history - 169, Chapter 3 Organization scholars - 223, Chapter 4 Organization structures - 298, Chapter 5 A three-sided pyramid of organization - 330, Chapter 6 Theory W propositions and hypotheses - 390, Chapter 7 Entrances to the Theory W structure - 414, Chapter 8 Time as one essence of life - 485, Chapter 9 The expert worker - 538, Chapter 10 The form of Theory W - 630, Chapter 11 Individual case studies - 656, Chapter 12 The challenge of Theory W - 762d, Chapter 13 - Business case studies - 791, Chapter 14 Education case studies - 819, Chapter 15 Experimental modeling - 872, Chapter 16 The FIRO-B testing instrument - 889, Chapter 17 Critique - 901, Chapter 18 Functional church - 973, Bibliography - 984, Index - 1012, Appendix A Dissertation proposals - a2, Appendix B Electronic wording - a55, Appendix C Dissertation delimitation - a236, Appendix D The myth master - a243, Appendix E Is more education an addiction? - a253, Appendix F A different culture - a270, Appendix G Bridge in a whole life - a291, Appendix H Inquiring into personality - a300, Appendix I A purposeful aim - a306
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MBA thesis . front and rear pages .
introduction literature model progress .
A few words from then for now. At first thought, the second web site edition (2001) began with this thesis accessible only from the early years of the resume page, but upon reconsideration, this summary was prepared which contributes a reflection of Harv's wellness at the time, now pertinent for the start of his gentleman's retirement life phase.
"Sixty percent ... has been dissatisfied with ... results yet most ... continue ... via lump sum allocations."(abstract). Assuming a non dissing world, Harv proceeded to provide technical improvement for the situation, and for his life. Then Bob Dunn, after the marriage breakup, commented that the Otto's appeared to be the perfect family. And Harv thinks that's correct, the Otto's were the perfect family. So now, rhetorically, to where do the members of the Otto family grow. And more specifically, to where does Harv grow.
"Sixty percent ... has been dissatisfied with ... results, yet in spite of the dissatisfaction, spending continues to climb."(1). "The problem ... is to contribute to the resolution of the controversy between the ... method and the predominant ... method ... ."(2). If not spending growth, then a higher job classification at, of course, higher pay. Or changing careers. Or having Harv start a carmel corn business in the Lima Ohio mall. The foundational cause of dissing can be difficult to identify.
"Confidence in setting plans and objectives comes when the leaders tie their own success to ... demonstrating a drive to attain realistic and known objectives. The leaders will influence the course of events and they will find planning such influence their duty. The performance concept is to be emphasized as opposed to emphasizing a fiscal concept. There is, however, a complementary relationship between the two concepts. Effective implementation of the participation principle demands that those who have to perform are to provide the input data. Individual recognition of outstanding and substandard leader accomplishment are to be identified and recognized. The system of evaluation must be fair, understandable, and reasonably accurate."(6). In short, Harv's performance was technically correct but unsophisticated, and least of all, ill understood by him. Does he now understand?
"A balance is to be drawn between model simplicity and quantification and if [an organization] trends too much toward quantification or too much toward simplification the tendency of the business is to drift out of control."(23). This balance could be described as worldly-wise, which "suggests a close and practical knowledge of the affairs and manners of society"(m-w.com). Thus, with this refresher, I seek knowledge of those with whom I cooperate in my self interest. "You did it all for you," was an accusation which shocked me then, but I intend to continue learning in the context of doing the future it thus making me the best me for the best we. And it begins with my current home share, wherever that may be, with evidences of the three love levels.
-- definition by m-w.com --
so·phis·ti·cat·ed -- adjective 1601 : not in a natural, pure, or original state : ADULTERATED <a sophisticated oil> : deprived of native or original simplicity: as : highly complicated or developed : COMPLEX <sophisticated electronic devices> : having a refined knowledge of the ways of the world cultivated especially through wide experience <a sophisticated lady> : devoid of grossness: as a : finely experienced and aware <a sophisticated columnist> b : intellectually appealing <a sophisticated novel> -- synonyms SOPHISTICATED, WORLDLY-WISE, BLASé mean experienced in the ways of the world. SOPHISTICATED often implies refinement, urbanity, cleverness, and cultivation <guests at her salon were usually rich and sophisticated>. WORLDLY-WISE suggests a close and practical knowledge of the affairs and manners of society and an inclination toward materialism <a worldly-wise woman with a philosophy of personal independence>. BLASé implies a lack of responsiveness to common joys as a result of a real or affected surfeit of experience and cultivation <blasé travelers who claimed to have been everywhere>.
dis -- transitive verb Inflected Form(s): dissed; dis·sing Etymology: perhaps short for disrespect 1986 : to treat with disrespect or contempt : INSULT : to find fault with : CRITICIZE
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Theory W page 1
FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION: THEORY W UNIFIES
STRATEGY, FUNCTIONALISM, PRODUCTIVITY, AND STRUCTURE
FOR MEMBERS AND THE INDIVIDUAL
a dissertation in scholarly form for the earned degree of Doctor of Philosophy aimed at clarifying a more specific strategy process as personally experienced in several careers and many case studies by H.L.Otto Leawood KS February 1996 Kensington University Student 267187370 Glendale CA Runner: Beyond matrix organization
Kensington University approval Date Chairperson __________________________________ _______ Degree committee __________________________________ _______ Degree committee __________________________________ _______ Theory W page 2 Part for front materials
Review. Traditional composition texts refer to the
writing divisions of front materials and back materials with
no literal titles. But in this dissertation separate parts
are so titled. The foregoing title page and approval page
preceded the formal titlement to avoid the probable
confusion of the traditionally oriented.
Summary. Front and back materials have their own
literal parts in this dissertation. The traditional
chapter-type divisions of summary, acknowledgements,
preface, glossary, and introduction comprise front materials
- bibliography and the index comprise back materials.
Next. Part one provides a historical and current
orientation to the subjects of administration, organization
structure, and organization science.
Part two presents the essentials of Theory W. Parts
three and four then apply Theory W to individuals as
organizations and to multiple-member larger organizations.
Part five airs the testing-instrument measurement of
the Theory W treatment. Part six encompasses wayward and
tangential information - some perhaps too personal for the
traditional dissertation, as if education had to be
impersonal.
Theory W page 3 Front materials
Chapter for summary
Title Approval Copyright Abstract Problem abstract Brief contents Accreditation Outline of defense Petition for PhD
Copyright. The rights for this copy derive from the spirit, the concept, and the publicity of applying evidential functionalism to (1) groups of members in their organizations, and (2) the individual as their own organization. Taken together, the unification and application of strategy, functionalism, and productivity to members and individuals comprises Theory W.
Spiritually, the spark of the "why" question exists
from a person's infancy. The age of two usually brings
vocalization to the "why" question.
Conceptually, Theory W began in the 1960s as an
organizational development tool which facilitated evidential
improvements. Other w words were added to the critical
thinking within organization improvement.
Publicly, the Theory W term was aired in a set of
speeches before the National Association of Accountants, 15
September 1983 and 19 January 1984.
This dissertation casts a scholarly version of
Theory W.
Theory W page 4 Summation
Abstract. Theory W - based on case studies from
business, industry, administration, and education - provides
a four dimensional unifying view of organization theory,
valid not only for large organizations but also applicable
to the individual as an organization. Theory W connects all
of the human organization structures - formal, informal,
functional, and technological - for the inquiry into
validity and reliability. The three-sided pyramid provides
visual differentiation.
Theory W makes use of the pyramid's age-old symbol of
higher authority, permitting access to authority from any
one of the three human structures - (a) the hierarchy of
bosses, (b) the social group leader evolution, or (c) the
hierarchical arrangement of work-tasks in support of the
organization's aim.
Theory W's functional structure provides vivid
visibility into the organization policy, philosophy,
purpose, mission, vision, aim, or end. The member's job
description version of the functional structure provides
validity in support of the organization aim. The
"Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation - Behavior"
(FIRO-B) testing instrument presents the ability to judge
the statistical significance of raising productivity through
more functional visibility.
Computer technology permits the valid and reliable
Theory W page 5 Summation
representation of the organization's strategy structure,
reaching from the mission statement of the annual report to
every worker-member. The strategy structure database
permits reliable rearrangement into member worktasks for
periodic review by the worker, the formal hierarchy, and
even the informal group.
Improvement programs like management by objectives
(MBO), total quality management (TQM), control through
variance analysis (VA), leadership of future transition
(LOFT), program evaluation and review technique (PERT),
critical path method (CPM), organizational development (OD),
profit improvements, reorganizations, and any other similar
programs are compatible within the umbrella of Theory W.
Problem abstract. Too narrowly, does worker
productivity come forth from government statistics. Too few
employees and employers are measured as productive workers.
Too often, strategy experiences difficulty in breaking
forth from the mission statement of the annual report.
In too few instances, does management transfer
functionalism into their organization from engineering, from
architecture, from linguistics, from sociology, from
mathematics, from Fayol, and from Taylor.
Higher technology machines and advancing psychology
continue to pressure the deficiencies of the formal-
functional, matrix, and hybrid organization structures of
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management textbooks. Therefore Theory W provides a
separation of organization structures into pure formal, pure
informal, and pure functional. The latter equates to
strategy and identifies with the functionalist movement.
Part contents Page Front materials 1 Part 1 - Theories of organization 127 Part 2 - The essence of Theory W 328 Part 3 - The individual as an organization 482 Part 4 - Multiple member organizations 760d Part 5 - Experimental measurement 871 Back materials 984-1027 Appendices a1-a318
Chapter contents Page Summary 3 Acknowledgement 9 Preface 21 Contents including figures & tables 68 Glossary 78 Introduction 108 Chapter 1 - Industrial administrative history 134 2 - Educational administrative history 169 3 - Organization scholars 223
Theory W page 7 Summation Chapter 4 - Organization structures 298 5 - A three-sided pyramid of organization 330 6 - Theory W propositions and hypotheses 390 7 - Entrances to the Theory W structure 414 8 - Time as one essence of life 485 9 - The expert worker 538 10 - The form of Theory W 630 11 - Individual case studies 656 12 - The challenge of Theory W 762d 13 - Business case studies 791 14 - Education case studies 819 15 - Experimental modeling 872 16 - The FIRO-B testing instrument 889 17 - Critique 901 18 - Functional church 973 Bibliography 984 Index 1012 Appendix A - Dissertation proposals a2 B - Electronic wording a55 C - Dissertation delimitation a236 D - The myth master a243 E - Is more education an addiction? a253 F - A different culture a270 G - Bridge in a whole life a291 H - Inquiring into personality a300 I - A purposeful aim a306 Accreditation Dedication. This dissertation dedicates to those literate individuals who desire the benefits of organization. Theory W presents a challenging and beneficial way to write and to read an organization's functional structure. Function. In mathematics, B=F(A) is a functional
Theory W page 8 Summation equation, where A is "the independent variable or the argument of the function (272 sv)," and B is the dependent variable. The dependent variable can also be seen as the output of an organization where the independent variable can be seen as the input of an organization. "The function F is regarded as a mapping by which the element A is related to its image, the element B (272 sv)." Theory W provides the functional task map of any organization.
Functional. 2: existing or used to contribute to the development or maintenance of a larger whole. (61 sv) Functionalism. Term used in architecture to describe the belief that the form... should be determined by practical considerations such as planning and structure.... The process of design begins with an analysis of the... function and the best technical means of meeting it and that aesthetic character, instead of being superimposed, emerges as part of the same process. The approach to language study that is concerned with the functions performed by language, primarily in terms of cognition (relating information), expression (indicating mood), and conation (exerting influence). In the social sciences, theory of the relationships of parts of a society to the whole and of one part to another. (272 sv) Outline of defense.
Topic selection. Appendix C narrows the Library of
Congress Subject Heading of administration to the topic of
matrix organization.
Spirit. For three decades the author has improved
organization systems. With that background of constant
improvement, he now desires to improve general organization
theory by way of publication, and specifically, to improve
Theory W page 9 Summation
functional organization theory, beginning with this
dissertation project.
Rigor. The glossary includes definitions of scholar
and dissertation, among others. These classic definitions
will be pursued for a management science gestalt view of any
organization - including the individual person.
Reliability. Over a dozen application cases are
presented, many in detail.
Validity. Theory W checks against the universe of
organization development, provides structure to the process
of strategy, and makes the important theoretical leap of
encompassing the individual as an organization.
Topic importance. Strategy quantification provides a
tool for insuring the success of an organization's
synergistic process.
Petition for PhD. The Kensington University form
titled "Petition For Graduation" under cover letter dated 22
June 1988 authorizes this final submission for the academic
degree of PhD under accreditation by the State of
California. The transcript of said university evidences the
approval of this dissertation.
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