Predicting Effectiveness from Individual or Organisational Climate Scores

Abstract

Organisation theory has been caught on an individual‐collective dichotomy for years. Systems theorists have argued that the whole or, even, the role system of an organisation cannot be explained by studying the individual parts. From this perspective the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Contrary to this perspective have been the theorists who argue that the individual is the important factor of organisations and that any attempt to develop a system out of a collective of different individuals is deceptive, particularly when theorists attribute needs, goals, and actions to the whole rather than to the individuals within the organisation.

Citation

Hunt, J. (1979), "Predicting Effectiveness from Individual or Organisational Climate Scores", Personnel Review, Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 42-45. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055383