Works
- Down the organization: influence processes across levels of hierarchy, Administrative Science Quarterly 20(2), 153 to 164, 1975
In Organizational Structures
Known for
A test of linkages across organizational levels
Ideas
Influence across levels. Found in 246 groups at 10 sites that downward influence had primacy over upward influence, flowing from the group process of superior-level groups to the climate of subordinate groups. Caveat: A two-wave survey of 1,770 people in 246 groups at 10 sites in four industries, on survey measures. Read in its abstract only.
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