Constraint-Shattering Practices and Creative Action in Organizations

Participatory Practices in Organizations

The literature on participatory practices in organizations has been less coherent and more limited to subspecialties than the literature on bureaucracy in organizations–despite a number of celebrated studies of participation in 20th century American sociology. Due to the practical nature of participatory reforms and the ambiguity of participation as a concept, attempts to review participatory k...

Creative action in mind

Fostering Creative Transformations in Organizations with Chaos

This chapter introduces the Chaos Theory of Careers (Pryor & Bright, 2003b, 2011) as applied to organizational behavior. The authors argue that organizations and the people within them can be usefully thought of as complex dynamical open systems – or strange attractors. From this perspective, organizational behavior can be understood in chaos terms such as attractors, fractal patterns, nonlinea...

Agile Practices in Indian Organizations

Agile software development is a conceptual framework that promotes development using iterations in whole life cycle of the project development. In Indian organizations agile is in its embryo stage. In software development agile means quick moving. For the customer’s satisfaction and to cope up with customer’s frequent changed requirements, heavyweight methodologies are kicked. To produce high q...

Constraint-based Analysis and Design of Organizations

The ACTION organization design and analysis system is a research and development effort designed to assist business re-engineering and organizational or technology change by helping to improve the integration of technology, organizations, and people ("TOP-integration") in manufacturing enterprises. ACTION uses a multi-level constraintbased representation of organizational features including bus...