Gerald R. Salancik

"The term rationalize refers to any situations in which a person's action is described with reference to some supporting reason or cause. The term “legitimate” refers to one criterion by which rational…"

"The effects of subunit power on organizational decision making and the bases of subunit power are examined in a large midwestern state university. It is hypothesized that subunits acquire power to the…"

"The most frequently encountered view of commitment in organizations is one having to do with an individual's psychological bond to the organization."

"Commitment is a state of being in which an individual becomes bound by his actions and through this actions to beliefs that sustain his activities and his own involvement."

"People as adaptive organisms adjust their behavior and beliefs to the social context and to the reality of their own past and present behavior and situation."

"This article outlines a approach to explain. In comparison with need-satisfaction and expectancy models of job attitudes and motivation, the social information processing perspective emphasizes the ef…"

"Two contributors to explicitness are the observability of the act and the unequivocality of the act. Some acts are not observable and we may know them only by inference from assumed consequences. You …"

"Success ruins everything."