Psychology in India, Volume 2

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Culture, Institutions and Organizations in India

Rajen K. Gupta and Abinash Panda

Our society is an organization society. We are born in organizations, educated by organizations and most of us spend most of our time working for organizations … when the time comes for burial, the largest organizations of all—the state—must grant permission (Etzioni, 1970:1).

I INTRODUCTION

The first ICSSR survey on management reviewed the work in the broad areas of organization and administration in the social system’s framework (Sharma, 1973). Chaturvedi (1976) provided a more focused approach to her review by limiting the themes to (a) motivation and job satisfaction, (b) leadership, (c) organizational structure, and (d) organizational development with emphasis ...