Collective Behavior in Organizational Settings

1 May 1976

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Sociology of Work and Occupations

Vol. 3 (2) , 151-168
https://doi.org/10.1177/073088847600300202

Abstract

In a community mental health center which stressed professional colleagueship and deemphasized administrative power, unilateral use of authority presented recurring, contingent crises. Two episodes are compared and analyzed to reveal negotiation as the primary mechanism of controlling equals and to indicate collective behavior as an alternative course toward negotiated order when routine channels of communication are blocked.

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