Organizing for Good
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https://doi.org/10.67945/jfa.v1i.28Keywords:
formal axiology, organizational valuesAbstract
The following article summarizes the challenges organizations face and what it will take to manage these challenges effectively. The central premise is that the “scientific management” framework (Taylor, 1911) developed by Frederick W. Taylor in 1911 has served us well but now needs to be replaced by Robert S. Hartman’s concept of “organizing for good.” After summarizing the challenges organizations face, the article uses Robert Hartman’s definition of goodness and his ideas of the intrinsic, extrinsic, and systemic dimensions of how we make decisions to describe the work organizations need to do to be effective in a changing world. Every organization faces challenges. The issue is to be clear about what they are, how we have approached them in the past, and how the idea of achieving excellence and organizing for good can help deal with them effectively in the future. Frederick Taylor believed the central challenge at the start of the 20th century was “the question of national efficiency.” As we start a new century we still face this challenge — and we have others as well.References
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