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Handbook of Research on Knowledge-Intensive Organizations
Here, organizations are seen as cultures. Therefore, organizing, in short, means constructing specific reality with its artifacts, norms and values. It is a complex process which can be discovered deeply with ethnographic methods.
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Creativitiy and Control in IT Professionals' Communities
Agnieszka Postula (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-176-6.ch018
Abstract
This chapter presents and discusses two factors – creativity and control – which correspond to every organizational reality. IT specialists’ professional communities are used as an example because of characteristic relationships between their members and their attitude to work. The chapter describes how combination of these two phenomena may build or destroy organizations. There is also an explanation of specific relations between IT professionals and beginning of further discussion based on these relationships, as well as analysis of consequences of inappropriate management practices. Creativity and control are presented as features of every common company with their special roles in organization. Also, main characteristics of well-organized practical communities are shown.
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