1/2 2003

Date: 2008-11-02 11:52:02 Created: null

Have just started reading (okay, about 1/3 of the required reading soon finished) through the next part of the course literature, a book on communication in organizations. Right now I'm in the part repeating different approaches to organizations and management that I last encountered during that old economy course. Funny how a new context increases the interest, isn't it? Anyway, I was just thinking that it's pretty interesting how the human relations approach have gained so much support, and feels so natural and reasonable, despite the foundation studies and theories failing to get any scientific evidence backing them up whatsoever. It's got to be the natural feeling of it, when you read about it it really makes sense without needing any studies at all. You just ask yourself under which conditions you'd like to work. It's probably not the machine perspective that fits best ...

Still, no real support in other studies, and some quite devastating evidence against the Hawthorne studies too. But hey, what if the studies failing to find support somehow had the machine perspective? Does that still enable them to find support for the human relations?

I'm doing this writing in Opera 7, and the pages really get wide ... If someone happens to just drop by and knows the reason already, I'd love to get a line about it! My current theory is that it's got something to do with standards support and/or quirks rendering modes that Opera might do more standardized than Mozilla and IE. Perhaps it's connected to my DOCTYPE tags ...

I'll take a look at it today if I'm still conscious enough after work.