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- Title
Managing Garbage Can Hierarchies.
- Authors
Padgett, John F.
- Abstract
This article operationalizes garbage can theory into a stochastic process model for the case of a traditional Weber- Ian bureaucracy. The purposes of the model are two: (1) to illustrate how ambiguity may impinge on decision making within a structural setting more familiar to classical organization theorists, and (2) to derive the managerial implications of garbage can theory. Garbage can flows of issues are explicitly embedded with in a differentiated chain-of-command hierarchy, and are affected by centralization and personnel policies, subunit conflict, information-processing routines, and standard operating procedures. The Presidential control implications of the model amount to unobtrusive management in the extreme. Structural design is emphasized more than tactical machinations.
- Subjects
BUREAUCRACY; PERSONNEL policies; GARBAGE can models of decision making; HIERARCHIES; STOCHASTIC processes; INFORMATION processing
- Publication
Administrative Science Quarterly, 1980, Vol 25, Issue 4, p583
- ISSN
0001-8392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2392282