Complexity, Managers, and Organizations

- Preface
- Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
-- Descriptive versus Predictive Analysis
-- Rational versus Irrational Organizational Decision Making
-- The Rationality of Differentiation and Integration
2. Complexity: A Review of the Literature
-- Structure versus Content
-- Definitions
-- Effects of the Environment and of Task Demands
-- Theoretical Positions in the Development of Complexity Theory prior to 1977
-- Advances in Complexity Theory since 1977
-- Research Results on Complexity Theory
3. The Place of Complexity in Organizational Science
-- Choice of Methodology
-- Results and Interpretation
4. Complexity Theory: The Cognitive Structure of Individuals in the Organization
-- Complexity Theory Applied to the Individual
-- Sources of Complexity
-- Hierarchical versus Flexible Complexity
-- Degrees of Complexity
-- Why Would Anybody Want to Be Cognitively Complex?
-- Complexity and Related Styles and Abilities
-- Complexity and the Environment
-- Behavioral and Cognitive Content
-- Complexity and Practical Intelligence
3. Complexity Theory: The Structure of Information Processing in Organizations
-- Complexity and Organizations
-- People
-- What Is Organizational Complexity?
-- Sources of Organizational Complexity
-- Intuition and Managerial Functioning
-- Organizational Leadership
-- Organizational Strategy and Planning
-- Organizational Functioning and the Environment
6. The Measurement of Differentiative and Integrative Complexity
-- Measuring Individual Differences in Cognitive Complexity
-- Measuring Individual, Team, and Organizational Performance
-- Measuring the Complexity of Organizational Information Flow
-- Research Data on the Behavioral and Organizational Effects
-- of Dimensionality
-- Attitudes
-- Attributions
-- Attraction
-- Perception of Others’ Intent and Strategy
-- Leadership
-- Task Performance
-- Research with Organizations and Organizational Decision Makers
8. Physiological and Health Implications of Complexity and Other Managerial Styles
-- Type A Coronary-Prone Behavior
-- Complexity, Arousal, and Disease
-- Tasks
-- Research
-- An Extension of Theory
-- The Complexity Dilemma
9. Contributions of Complexity Theory to Organizations
-- Theory and Research
-- Complexity in Managerial and Organizational Science
APPENDIX. Measurement via the Time-Event Matrix
-- Number of Decision Categories
-- Number of Decisions
-- Number of Integrations
-- Integration Time Weight
-- Quality of Integrated Strategies (QIS)
-- Multiplicity of Integration
-- Weighted QIS
-- Number of Respondent Decisions
-- Average Response Speed
-- Serial Connections
-- Planned Integrations
-- Multiplexity _F_
-- Measures of Performance Quality
- References
- Index