Complexity, Managers, and Organizations

✍ Scribed by Siegfried Streufert, Robert W. Swezey

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 272
• Series: Organizational and Occupational Psychology
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  -- Descriptive versus Predictive Analysis
  -- Rational versus Irrational Organizational Decision Making
  -- The Rationality of Differentiation and Integration
• Complexity: A Review of the Literature
  -- Structure versus Content
  -- Definitions
  -- Effects of the Environment and of Task Demands
  -- Theoretical Positions in the Development of Complexity Theory prior to 1977
  -- Advances in Complexity Theory since 1977
  -- Research Results on Complexity Theory
• The Place of Complexity in Organizational Science
  -- Choice of Methodology
  -- Results and Interpretation
• Complexity Theory: The Cognitive Structure of Individuals in the Organization
  -- Complexity Theory Applied to the Individual
  -- Sources of Complexity
  -- Hierarchical versus Flexible Complexity
  -- Degrees of Complexity
  -- Why Would Anybody Want to Be Cognitively Complex?
  -- Complexity and Related Styles and Abilities
  -- Complexity and the Environment
  -- Behavioral and Cognitive Content
  -- Complexity and Practical Intelligence
• Complexity Theory: The Structure of Information Processing in Organizations
  -- Complexity and Organizations
  -- People
  -- What Is Organizational Complexity?
  -- Sources of Organizational Complexity
  -- Intuition and Managerial Functioning
  -- Organizational Leadership
  -- Organizational Strategy and Planning
  -- Organizational Functioning and the Environment
• The Measurement of Differentiative and Integrative Complexity
  -- Measuring Individual Differences in Cognitive Complexity
  -- Measuring Individual, Team, and Organizational Performance
  -- Measuring the Complexity of Organizational Information Flow
  -- Research Data on the Behavioral and Organizational Effects
  -- of Dimensionality
  -- Attitudes
  -- Attributions
  -- Attraction
  -- Perception of Others’ Intent and Strategy
  -- Leadership
  -- Task Performance
  -- Research with Organizations and Organizational Decision Makers
• Physiological and Health Implications of Complexity and Other Managerial Styles
  -- Type A Coronary-Prone Behavior
  -- Complexity, Arousal, and Disease
  -- Tasks
  -- Research
  -- An Extension of Theory
  -- The Complexity Dilemma
• Contributions of Complexity Theory to Organizations
  -- Theory and Research
  -- Complexity in Managerial and Organizational Science
  APPENDIX. Measurement via the Time-Event Matrix
  -- Number of Decision Categories
  -- Number of Decisions
  -- Number of Integrations
  -- Integration Time Weight
  -- Quality of Integrated Strategies (QIS)
  -- Multiplicity of Integration
  -- Weighted QIS
  -- Number of Respondent Decisions
  -- Average Response Speed
  -- Serial Connections
  -- Planned Integrations
  -- Multiplexity F
  -- Measures of Performance Quality
• References
• Index

✦ Subjects

industrial psychology, intelligence, executive ability, decision theory, organizational decision making, complexity theory, cognitive style, leadership, individual differences, personality, Type A, Quality of Integrated Strategies