Exploring the Paradigm Wars in Organization Theory

Running head: ESSAY ON EXPLORING THE PARADIGM WARS IN ORGANIZATION
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Essay on exploring the paradigm wars in organization theory
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Managers of every organization are given the mandate of planning, controlling, coordinating,
and directing activities in order to achieve the set goals of that organization (Baden, & Higgs,
2015). In order to achieve the success of the organization, managers use various approaches that
ensure organizational activities run in an effective and efficient manner (Engle, 2017). The
adopted approaches are applied to the organization workforce who contributes their efforts to the
achievements of organizational objectives. This essay will mainly focus on a critical analysis
concerning deterministic and strategic choice theories. The mentioned analysis will give an
understanding concerning the various activities that take place in each and every organization
and their contributions towards the success of the organizational goals. Strategic choice theory is
mainly concerned with the efforts that rare required in maintaining working environment
relationships with employees and devising require measure to tackle the risks and uncertainties
that may occur in the organization (Frandsen, & Johansen, 2017). On the other hand, three
theories under deterministic theory will also be analyzed. In conclusion part, the best theory that
contributes to the achieving of the set goals in an easy way will be identified and supporting
details be included as to why the theory is better than the other. The overall analysis of the
theories will enable the organization to have a better insight on better approaches to apply in
their organization to assist it in the maximization of their profits and overall growth and
development.
According to Child, (2015), changes in organizational relations contributed to the development
of Strategic Choice theory in the United states of America. Strategic choice theory plays the role
of demonstrating the relations of the top management team and the junior workers in an
organization (Kochan, McKersie, & Cappelli, 2016). It provides sufficient communication to the
organization concerning the effects of external and internal environments of the organization.
The effects can be either positive or negatives in the organization setup. The theory also focuses
on the importance of organization administrative choices that affect the overall performance of
that particular organization. The administrative choices enable managers to make sound
decisions concerning different actions in the organization.
In line with the external environment of the organization, managers use this theory to analyze the
actively changing environment so that managers can implement key measures that are required
to maintain organizational competitiveness in the markets against their rivals (Hill, Jones, &

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Schilling, 2014). Through the established and developed relations between employer and
employees, managers are able to entrust their employees by giving them the responsibilities of
making their own decisions in their respective departments (Prajogo, 2016). This allows all
individuals to actively participate in the organization development and improvement to achieve
the identified and set goals of the organization. In doing this, more time is saved on the side of
the managers since mere tasks are solved without necessarily requiring the efforts of the
managers who might be held up in other vital issues of the organization. Strategic choice theory
provides managers with different approaches that they can use when they face various situations
in their organization (Cook, Salter, & Stadler, 2017).
The first approach is concerned with managers making instant decisions with the use of limited
resources to achieve a set goal. In this case, managers are able to prioritize their needs and select
the most pressing ones to be allocated the resources. Sudden occurrences require managers to
make rapid decisions to prevent the negative impacts to the organization. The other approach
enables managers to tackle some of the risks and uncertainties that occur without an alert.
Managers are able to analyze the occurred risks and uncertainties whether they are technical ones
or political and quickly device methods of curbing their effects to the organization (Simpson, &
Paternoster, 2017). The other approach gives the managers an insight on the issues that need to
be solved immediately and those to be left pending. This approach enables the manager to
accomplish their tasks without mush stress. The forth approach enable the manager to
accomplish his/her roles by stressing on the importance of making collaborations with people
from different background. This enables the manger to get diversified knowledge and ideas that
eventually help him to accomplish his roles of managing, controlling, directing and coordinating
the organization for the benefit of the whole organization.
Deterministic theory is also a theory that managers apply in their daily operations of their
organization. This essence of this theory is to assist in the definition of all activities that
happened in an organization and relate them to the present activities (Chen, Du, & Tang, 2015).
The theory uses the past history of the organization to forecast its position in the near future and
the differences is evaluated in a manner that will help the organization to strengthen its operation
and uplift its weaknesses. Forecasting is mainly meant to help the manager to plan for the future
by using the past history or occurrences. There are three theories under deterministic theory