dc.contributor.advisor | Parry, Ken | |
dc.contributor.author | Rowland, Paul | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-23T02:53:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-23T02:53:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.25904/1912/1111 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367449 | |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation is a report on a program of research study about top level behaviour in the
context of organisational relationships. The aims of the research study were two-fold. First,
the research sought to make an original contribution to the theory about the effect of top level
team decision-making behaviour on exchange relationships between organisational units.
Second, in response to a call in the extant literature for greater understanding of exchange
behaviour in an applied sense within organisations, the current program of research also
sought to explore the contribution that a grounded theory-based methodology could make to
the understanding of this phenomenon. The broad substantive setting for the research was
knowledge industries, and the specific focus was on large Australian universities.
A basic social process of Dyadic Decision-Making emerged from this program of research.
This basic social process was found to be central to top level team behaviour during decisionmaking,
especially where matters concerned other organisational areas. This research
identifies that top level team decision-making activity serves the practical purpose of dealing
with strategic and operational issues at the organisational unit level. Moreover, the current
program of study finds that top level team decision-making serves an important role in shaping
the longer term exchange relationships which organisational units develop between each other.
In this context, Dyadic Decision-Making represents a basic social process by which top level
teams build exchange dyads between their own, and other organisational units.
This research program identifies that the level of emphasis on relationship considerations
within top level teams is a key determinant of decision-making behaviour and, by extension,
the messages which organisational units send about the way they wish to exchange with other
organisational units. For team leaders, relationship emphasis manifests in the leadership style
which they adopt within their teams. For team members, relationship emphasis manifests in
the perspectives they exhibit during team discussions, and is shaped inter alia by the definition
of their day to day job roles. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.publisher | Griffith University | |
dc.publisher.place | Brisbane | |
dc.rights.copyright | The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise. | |
dc.subject.keywords | Dyadic decision making | |
dc.subject.keywords | Organisational behavior | |
dc.title | Dyadic Decision-Making: A Grounded Theory of Top Level Team Decision and Exchange Behavior | |
dc.type | Griffith thesis | |
gro.faculty | Griffith Business School | |
gro.description.notepublic | The request for restricted paper and digital access for a period of 24 months has been approved, with effect from 29 March 2007. | |
gro.rights.copyright | The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
dc.contributor.otheradvisor | Jordan, Peter | |
dc.rights.accessRights | Public | |
gro.identifier.gurtID | gu1320303918509 | |
gro.source.ADTshelfno | ADT0882 | |
gro.thesis.degreelevel | Thesis (PhD Doctorate) | |
gro.thesis.degreeprogram | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | |
gro.department | Griffith Business School | |
gro.griffith.author | Rowland, Paul | |