| Status Classes in Organizations | |
| Author(s): | B. Anderson, J. Berger, B. P. Cohen, M. Zelditch Jr. |
| Abstract: | A theory is formulated from which a number of well-known properties of organizational status structures may be derived. It is then applied to the problem of assigning a new job to a place in the status structure. The theoretical formulation is concerned only with status in the sense of respect, worth, or esteem. It assumes two basic properties, a diffuse property and a balance property, and some notions of how status-valued states come to be related to each other. From this formulation, conditions are derived under which assignment of a new job will and will not disturb the stability of an organization's existing status structure. |
| Publication Title: | Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 11(2) |
| Pub Year: | 1966 |
| Pages: | 264 – 283 |
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