Post Modernism Paradigm In Organizations

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Post modernism challenges both paradigms. It is apparent that with post modernism, each idea is challenged. The idea behind post modernism is that there are multiple realities in which we exist, and that they are constantly shifting(Hatch 2013) , in such way that all of the current things perceived change their outlook. Paul Heydebrand and Steward Clegg look at the main occurring events within organizations(McAuley 2014). Post modernism tends to focus on the ideal of organizations. Such as during Heydebrand’s research on postindustrial society literature, he discovered that the smaller, decentralized organizations are the most effective. That is due to better decision-making processes as well as higher ambiguity in a company. Another factor …show more content…

This also places a significant role on the outlook of the hierarchy, in which there is a higher role towards individuals compared to the collectivist one. However, there is a significant shift from such viewpoint towards the postmodern one, where each of those views was broken down and placed on a higher significance. Each view even though is individualistic, in post modernism it is aimed to create smaller distinctiveness of roles (mcauley figure 7.3), but with larger variety, and in such that each would make easier communication. Post modernism, stands on the opposite scale of ontology, from which there is an extreme view of relativism, with post modernism being a lot more …show more content…

However, the difference from these two organizations is that in post modernism, the socially constructed view is individualistic, in a way that the organization consists of multiskilled, differentiated roles that are then shared through networking, those are also focused on self-determination (jatch table 2.2), whereas the symbolic interprevism appears to focus on the socially constructed reality has its organizational culture set as a whole from collectivistic view.
The knowledge of both organizations can be argued to be on the interpretivist side of the epistemological spectrum, this is as both are socially constructed. Variation between the two occurs from the origin of knowledge, as one is from personal experience and the other is socially constructed from the organizations experience, and when employed you become a part of such. However, the modernism is on the positivist side as its knowledge consist of scientific methodology and so is fluid, as it is not gained from