Organizational Resource Management

24 Organizational Resource Management

Another way to look at different types of model is their exibility. Static models

do not change. They provide a snapshot of an object. Comparative models allow the

observation of an object for a longer period of time and enable a comparison to some

static model or state. Dynamic models are in interaction with the environment and

allow observation of how to change the object of observation and how to develop the

model itself (McGarvey and Hannon 2004). Clearly, dynamic models of organiza-

tional resources are the ones that organizations want to have, since they support the

development of an organization in interaction with its environment through develop-

ing the resources of the organization. At the sa