Measures of Perrow 's Work Unit Technology: An Empirical Assessment and a New Scale.
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Six instruments previously used to assess Perrow's dimensions of work unit technology are evaluated. The findings suggest convergent validity across measures of the analyzability and exceptions dim...
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Traditional measures of task variety are more indicative of variations in the content of work, not variations in the pattern of actions used to accomplish the work (Pentland, 2003).
“Pentland (2003) argued that our traditional measures of task variety (Withey, Daft, and Cooper,1983) are more indicative of variations in the content of work, not variations in the pattern of actions used to accomplish the work.”
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- Authors
- Withey, M., Daft, R. L., & Cooper, W. H.
- Affiliations
- Queen's University (CA)
- Texas A&M University (US)
- Venue
- Academy of Management Journal
- Publisher
- Academy of Management
- Published
- 1983-03-01
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 45-63
- ISSN
- 0001-4273 (ISSN-L)
- 1948-0989
- OpenAlex
- W2066061288
- Cited by
- 361
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 18 · 2012: 15
- FWCI
- 8.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Academy of Management Journal (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management Theory and Practice
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Keywords
- analyzability, exception, scale development, convergent validity, organizational structure
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