Works
- Reactions to supervision in a heteronomous professional organization, Administrative Science Quarterly 10(1), 65 to 81, 1965
- Managing professional work: three models of control for health organizations, Health Services Research 17(3), 213 to 240, 1982
- Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural, and Open System Perspectives, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey (xi and 452 pages; ISBN 0-13-195893-3); reissued by Routledge in 2015 (e-book ISBN 978-1-315-66337-1), 2007
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Professionals in organizations, and later institutional theory and Organizations and Organizing.
Ideas
Autonomous, heteronomous, and conjoint professional organizations. Three ways of structuring professional work in an organization: officials delegate standard-setting to the professional group (autonomous), professionals are subordinated to an administrative framework (heteronomous), or professionals and administrators work with a more equal distribution of power and more total power exercised (conjoint), a model Scott says describes a possible rather than an existing arrangement. Caveat: Illustrated with physicians in hospitals rather than tested. Only passages of the article were read.
Heteronomous professional organization. Professionals can work inside an administrative framework that controls much of their work, in contrast to autonomous professional organizations. Caveat: The article's abstract was not read, so nothing beyond its title is drawn from it.
In this section, “read” means read by the Organizational Structures series: where a line says a work, or part of one, was not read, the series did not read it.