The Three Cases Compared

Allan Warmington, Tom Lupton and Cecily Gribbin

Chapter 7 in Organizational Behaviour and Performance, 1977, pp 145-152 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We have now reported on three quite different cases studies. The studies differ in at least three ways: (a) the approach and method of investigation has differed between the three; (b) the departments studied, their problems and the patterns of behaviour in each were very different from each other; (c) and the way in which the cases have been reported differs. As we have suggested in chapter 3, methods of investigation will vary with the different circumstances of the system being investigated, for the open socio-technical systems approach allows those doing the investigation considerable discretion to suit their detailed methods to the nature of the organisation. There is a second reason why investigation methods may be different: the structure of skills and the relationship between members of the investigating team, and the circumstances in which that team finds itself during the investigation. Methods of analysis have differed between these cases for both these reasons.

Date: 1977
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03088-0_7

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