The Public Administration Theory Primer

130 6: Postmodern Th eory context by Douglas McGregor (1960). Individuals in organizations, McGregor argued, are naturally incli ...

Organizational Humanism and Postpositivism 131 Th omas Luckmann’s Th e Social Construction of Reality (1967). From Kuhn came the ...

132 6: Postmodern Th eory Th e primary value in the development of a normative theory for pub- lic administration is mutuality, ...

Organizational Humanism and Postpositivism 133 ends. In their rules, decisionmakers will rationally seek effi ciency in the dire ...

134 6: Postmodern Th eory Rather it is a function of the nature and quality of social relations through which purposes change” ( ...

Organizational Humanism and Postpositivism 135 have subscribed to this advice: Th ink critically about work. We can now question ...

136 6: Postmodern Th eory interventionists are usually called consultants, and the quest for human potential through training an ...

Postmodern Perspectives in Public Administration 137 persists, we have learned, because hierarchical organizations provide highl ...

138 Organizations Are: Commentary Simple x Complex Classic Paradigm Not a difficult call; the boundaries of a classical bureaucr ...

139 Determinate x Indeterminate Classic Paradigm The Weberian adjectives noted earlier define the classic paradigm as determinat ...

140 6: Postmodern Th eory knowledge based on superstition or prophecy and replaced it with knowledge based on science. All moder ...

Postmodern Perspectives in Public Administration 141 knowledge through reason, and knowledge thus derived is simply assumed to b ...

142 6: Postmodern Th eory is postmodernism” (Baudrillard, quoted in Farmer 1995, 6). To the postmod- ernist, Disneyland is neith ...

Postmodern Perspectives in Public Administration 143 indeed, two of the leading new journals in the fi eld, Governance and Publi ...

144 6: Postmodern Th eory Science is also used more casually in public administration, simply as a word to lend importance to an ...

Postmodern Perspectives in Public Administration 145 of science to public administration were debated over fi ft y years ago by ...

146 6: Postmodern Th eory Germany. Postmodernists are correct in their assertion that technology can blur moral and ethical line ...

Looking for Postmodern Public Administration Th eory 147 Administration Review and other leading journals. Th e recent emphasis ...

148 6: Postmodern Th eory Th ese formulations are negativities. Modernity can yield convenient sets of propositions that invite ...

Looking for Postmodern Public Administration Th eory 149 Postmodernity, for example, denies the distinction between appearance a ...