1999 Volume 14 Issue 2 Pages 2_33-2_52
According to the hypothesis of bounded rationality, there is no best approach for a reorganizing process due to the congnitive limit of organizational members. However, the reorganizing process can be successfully described in our model employing their attitude changes, in that the attitude change of personalistic agent causes a change of organizational behavioral pattern due to the attitude fluctuation.
A multi-agent model based on a personalistic agent is developed to describe the reorganizing process in an organization with respect to an organizational performance and its environmental adaptation. A computer simulation is to employ to describe the reorganizing process, because the process must be difficult to deal with an empirical method due to the complexity. We also propose the approach as an operational organizational oriented approach, and discuss a methodological possibility of our approach.
The attitude fluctuations in the reorganizing process are formulated in the model employing a concept of achievement motivation theory in psychology and of a differential engine proposed by Minsky. The personalistic agent consists of a task stickness, an emotion of interpersonal attractiveness, and of a conservativeness as variables.
In conclusion, we may provide a mechanism of reorganizing and organizational rigidity as a mechanism of a positive and negative feedback loop mediated by the personality and the attitude fluctuations of organizational members.
