scholarly journals The role of organizational semiotics and its implications for the development of organizational architecture

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Semiotics ◽  
Organizational Architecture

Difficult Cost Goals and Conflicting Honesty Incentives: The Influence of Decision Responsibility

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Libby ◽  
Chad A. Proell ◽  
Steven D. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Goal Achievement ◽  
Perceived Ability ◽  
Reporting Decisions ◽  
Organizational Architecture ◽  
Product Costs

ABSTRACT We experimentally examine the effects of difficult goals and controllability on managerial honesty in a cost reporting setting. In our experiment, participants in the role of production managers make cost reporting decisions with economic incentives to over-report. We manipulate the presence of a difficult cost goal and whether managers perceive product costs as somewhat under their control. Our setting captures conflicting incentives of goal achievement and perquisite consumption, and we find that difficult cost goals do increase reporting honesty conditional on the presence of perceived ability to impact costs. Specifically, managers with decision responsibility report more honestly with a difficult cost goal than without, while managers without decision responsibility report with similar honesty with or without a cost goal. Our study provides evidence that decision right assignment moderates the honesty effects of difficult cost goals, with implications for firms' goal setting and organizational architecture choices.

Semiotic study for the analysis of communications within organizations: Theoretical approach from organizational semiotics

Semiotica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (215) ◽  
pp. 281-304
Author(s):  
Carlos González Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Specific Mechanism ◽  
Organizational Environments ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Dynamic Objects ◽  
Organizational Semiotics

AbstractIn this paper we develop a methodological proposal for the study of communications within organizations from a semiotic approach. This proposal includes a semiotic study based on three central concepts: 1. the sign and its development – we begin with Charles S. Peirce’s well-known concept of sign and continue with the discourse transformation perspective; 2. the development of operations for the analysis of semiotic expressions to find a specific mechanism which enables us to analyze interpretative-cognitive processes in iconic, indexical, and symbolic expressions; and 3. interpretation processes in organizations developed from the analysis of the role of dynamic objects in the creation of signs to try to develop a descriptive, analytic, and reconstructive approach on how dynamic objects work and go further in the description of possible semiotic worlds. We develop concepts such as social semiosis (as a system), semiotic expressions (as updates to this system) in organizational environments, and the concept of semiotic actors closely related to the construction of an organizational world. This study enables us to approach the dynamics in communicational processes within organizations in all its elements to perform a critical analysis.

The Bank's Regional Director's Emotional Bias and the Bank's Performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-47
Author(s):  
Yasmine Souissi ◽  
Mohamed Ali Azouzi ◽  
Anis Jarboui
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Collection Method ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Architecture Theory ◽  
Organizational Architecture ◽  
Emotional Bias ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Original Approach

This article tries to study the impact of the bank regional manager's emotional bias on the performance of Tunisian banks. This is by taking into account the mediating role of the decentralization of decision-making rights. For this purpose, an empirical study was carried out using a questionnaire as a data collection method and using a sample of 100 regionals directors of Tunisian banks. This article reflects an original approach, as it highlights the role of behavioral aspects in explaining the level of performance within the framework of the organizational architecture theory. In fact, the results show that the behavioral dimension is a central dimension in the organizational architecture.

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor

Role of the allergist in diagnosis and management of patients with uveitis

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Van Metre
Keyword(s):  
Diagnosis And Management

The power of norms to sway fused group members

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Group Members

AbstractWhitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.

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