Concept information
Preferred term
organizations
Definition
- Organizations are social arrangements created to pursue collective goals by a group of members. Organizations generally possess legal personality and are therefore able to enter into contracts, to own property, or to sue and be sued. [Source: Green Politics: An A-to-Z Guide; Organizations]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- assimilation and acculturation
- boundary spanning
- charismatic leadership
- cliques
- coalitions
- collaboration technology
- collective self
- communication networks
- computer-mediated communication
- contingency theory of leadership
- cooperation and competition
- diversity
- dominance hierarchies
- dynamical systems approach
- escalation of commitment
- faultlines
- free riding
- gender and behavior
- gender roles
- great person theory of leadership
- group boundaries
- group cohesiveness
- group composition
- group ecology
- group learning
- group motivation
- group performance
- group socialization
- group structure
- group task
- homophily
- identification and commitment
- initiation rites
- innovation
- interactionist theories of leadership
- job design
- leader categorization theory
- mergers
- multiple identities
- negotiation and bargaining
- nonclassifiable establishments
- obedience to authority
- organization (group structure)
- pathgoal theory of leadership
- personality theories of leadership
- power dependence theory
- process consultation
- process gain and loss
- Protestant work ethic
- relational cohesion theory
- relational model of authority in groups
- roles
- role transitions
- romance of leadership
- schisms
- self-managing teams
- social compensation
- social exchange in networks and groups
- social facilitation
- social impact theory
- social loafing
- socially shared cognition
- socioemotional and task behavior
- staff turnover
- status
- status characteristics/expectation states theory
- status construction theory
- sucker effect
- systems theory
- team building
- team negotiation
- team performance assessment
- team reflexivity
- teams
- tokenism
- transactional leadership theories
- transformational leadership theories
- vertical dyad linkage model
- virtual/internet groups
- work teams
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/organizations
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