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The Embedded Paradox of Organizational Turnover and Professional Autonomy

Research on Social Work Practice, 2021
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effects of professional autonomy (PA) and person–environment fit (person–job [PJ] fit and person–organization [PO] fit) on turnover intention (TI). Methods: We take a total of 1,133 ...
Guanghuai Zheng, Haijuan Liu, Yean Wang, Beili Chen   +3 more
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Explicit Representation of Planning Autonomy in MOISE Organizational Model

2018 7th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS), 2018
Organizations are key elements in a multi-agent system, since they promote cooperation between agents by constraining their possible behaviours. However, constraining behaviour means diminishing the agents autonomy. In human organizations, agents have different degrees of autonomy: autonomous and more adaptable agents coexist with non-autonomous agents
Artur Vidal Maia, Jaime Simão Sichman
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Autonomy in an Organizational Context

2004
In this paper it is discussed how organizations deal with autonomy of agents that constitute them. Based on human organizations and on their legal characterization, it is proposed a normative and role-based model for organizations (human or not), that assumes autonomy of agents as a natural ingredient.
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Autonomy in and Outside the Employment Relationship: An Organizational Perspective

2022
This chapter focuses on the interpretative challenges that digitalization and its possible implications on the regulation of work pose to organizational and labor law scholars. It firstly considers the current organizational debate and points to the mainstream organizational scholarship’s inability to clarify if organizational changes associated with ...
Curzi, Ylenia, Fabbri, Tommaso
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Judicial Determination of Political Party Organizational Autonomy

Minnesota Law Review, 1957
G. Mitau
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Professional Autonomy and Organizational Constraint: The Case of Engineers

The Sociological Quarterly, 1989
Recent discussions of the professions agree on the centrality of autonomy to professionalism but disagree whether organizational employment is consistent with the maintenance of professionals' traditional autonomy. This article analyzes autonomy in the engineering profession with a view to discovering both whether engineers are able to maintain high ...
Peter F. Meiksins, James M. Watson
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Foundations and Professions: The Organizational Defense of Autonomy

Administrative Science Quarterly, 1961
Five procedures used by philanthropic foundations of the risk-capital type are identified and analyzed as organizational defenses, i.e., administrative procedures meant in part to reduce the foundations' vulnerability to control by their client professional groups, e.g. universities.
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Organizational environment and the support of patient autonomy in nursing home care

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1995
This study examined how patient autonomy is associated with the organizational environment in nursing homes, particularly the organizational climate, organization of work and selected staff characteristics, such as age and experience of health care Staff from 13 nursing homes in the county of Stockholm, Sweden, were included The organizational climate ...
A C, Mattiasson, L, Andersson
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Bureaucratic Autonomy, Organizational Culture, and Habituation

Administration & Society, 2004
What really does change when a bureaucratic agency is created? What will the nature of a new agency’s interactions be with political and administrative actors in its environment? Despite the large interest in administrative reform during the past few decades, there has been only little attention given to institutionalization processes that follow the ...
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Perceived Teacher Autonomy and the Meaning of Organizational Control

The Sociological Quarterly, 1981
This paper compares field data from three schools to generate explanations for teacher perceptions of their autonomy. These perceptions do not vary with control imposed on teachers in any regular way. Consideration of environmental pressure on the schools, however, reveals a pattern to the findings.
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