A historical perspective of organizational change in governmental administration from both social and cultural aspects
Journal Title: International Journal of Contemporary Management - Year 2013, Vol 12, Issue 1
Abstract
The article pertains to the subject of organizatonal change in the Interwar Polish state administration. The description of the contemporary perspectives in research on organiza-tional change was kind of a starting point here. The conception of B. Latour's translation, the research of Scandinavian authors (N.Brunsson) making use of his theory and A. Giddens's theory of structuration together with R. Boudon's remarks on unintentional effects of social activities were characterized here. The state of consciousness of the actors making changes, their system of values, the categories depicting organizational reality, the conditions in which they acted, undertaken actions and the assumed criteria of their assessment were also presented in this paper. Much attention has been paid to the conditions of creating state administration. The necessity to create it almost from scratch, alongside the evolution of state institutions and the increasing number of tasks it had to face. It led to the situation where it was necessary to implement organizational changes, introduced by clerks with a background in legal education. The de-scribed process of change enables us to show the introduction of organizational rules with the use of language and tools used by lawyers. At the same time it shows the process of the translation of criteria and rules developed in one organizational environment and then passed on to another. The process of organizational change in the interwar Polish state administration portrays the process of the gradual formation of the ability of clerks to recognize administrative issues in a waypertinent to management.
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Piotr Górski
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