Organizational theory might not sound like the most thrilling topic, but it's been around for ages. Think of it as the instruction manual for understanding how organizations work. It's like solving a ...

Douglas MacGregor's Theories X and Y classify employees as either extrinsically motivated by fear of consequences or desire for reward, or intrinsically motivated by a will to succeed, respectively.

Organizational culture has become a buzzword. Employees are placing an increased value on their work culture, advocating for companies to “practice what they preach” by upholding their stated mission, ...

Creating a learning organization sounds good in theory. Try to find an executive who wouldn’t like more collaborative, innovative and knowledgeable workers, and a backbone of clearly defined, ...

Rashid, Faaiza. "On Organizational Learning by Chris Argyris and Donald A. Schön." In The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Organization Theory: From Taylor to Today, edited by Erhard Friedberg. Paris: R&O ...

Andragogy promises autonomy and respect, but who decides when learners deserve it, and what counts as learning in the first ...

Change within the organizational setting is a constant occurrence; to remain stagnant and set in familiar ways when competitors reinvent themselves at every juncture is to threaten the organization's ...

Behaviorism was born from research done by Ivan Pavlov in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pavlov’s research into animal digestion led to the recognition that the animals that were being ...