Administrative Rationality

Associated Documents (2)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Udy, Stanley H., Jr.Administrative rationality, social setting, and organizational development
Udy, Stanley H., Jr.Work in traditional and modern society

Associated Hypotheses (6)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Udy, Stanley H., Jr.". . . administrative rationality involves relative independence of the organization from its social setting" (304)
Udy, Stanley H., Jr.The most rational organizations tend to have independent proprietorships (305)
Udy, Stanley H., Jr.Rational organization is negatively associated with hereditary stratification, hereditary political succession, slavery, and centralized government (306)
Udy, Stanley H., Jr."Social development . . . results independently in decreased rationality for production determined and political forms and increased rationality for familial and contractual forms" (56)
Udy, Stanley H., Jr."Production determined . . . organizations have marked tendencies toward rationality even . . . in the absence of any technological necessity for them to be so . . ." (55)
Udy, Stanley H., Jr.". . . contractual agreements often seem to limit the social content of work roles. Political organizations . . . do so less. . . . Production determined forms are just as likely to be rationally organized as are contractual form" (54)

Associated OCMs

  1. labor