A Tentative Exploration into the Amount and Equivocality of Information Processing in Organizational Work Units.
A model is proposed that relates the amount and equivocality of information processing to the variety and analyzability of work-unit activities. New questionnaire scales were developed for the information and task variables, and an exploratory test of the model was conducted on 24 work units. The re...
| Publicado en: | Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 207 - 225 |
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