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Ouchi, W. G. and A. M. Jaeger. 1978. Type Z organization: Stability in the midst of mobility. Academy of Management Review (April): 305- 314.
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This paper compares the dimensions of three organizational types to show how American organizations may evolve. These authors were very perceptive considering this paper was written in the late 1970's.
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DIMENSION |
TYPE A - AMERICAN |
TYPE J - JAPANESE |
TYPE Z - MODIFIED AMERICAN |
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Length of employment. |
Short term - high employee turnover. |
Lifetime - low employee turnover. |
Long term - moderate employee turnover. |
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Mode of Decision making. |
Individual decisions. |
Consensus decisions. |
Consensus decisions. |
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Type of Responsibility. |
Individual based on merit. |
Collective. |
Individual. |
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Speed of Evaluation and promotion. |
Rapid. |
Slow. |
Slow. |
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Dimension of control. |
Explicit with formalized measures. (Emphasis on bureaucratic type control.) |
Implicit, informal and subtle. (Emphasis on clan type control.) |
Mixed implicit, informal control with explicit formalized measures. |
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Degree of specialization. |
Specialized career path. Bureaucratic control of individuals requires specialties and sub-specialties to reduce the interdependence. |
Non specialized career path. |
Moderately specialized career path. |
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Extent of concern for the individual employee. |
Segmented, non personal task oriented concern. |
Holistic concern for employee's well being. |
Holistic concern. |
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