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100 1 _aKETOKIVI, Mikko
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245 1 0 _aStrategic planning as an integrative device
260 _aIthaca :
_bJohnson Graduate School of Management,
_cSeptember 2004
520 3 _aWhile alleviating the adverse effects of employees' pursuit of their subgroups' goals over organizational goals is important, finding ways to avoid them may be even more important. In this paper, we investigate whether strategic planning can be used to reduce organizational members' position bias, or the extent to which they direct their attention toward the immediate goals and priorities attached to their position. We examine the hypothesis that involving employees in the strategic planning process and communicating the agreed-upon priorities to them afterwards enhance goal convergence by attenuating position bias. We examine these questions in a sample of 164 manufacturing plants from five countries and three industries, where we asked middle-level managers to assess the importance of various organizational goals. We find that participation and communication function as complements to jointly reduce managerial position bias
700 1 _aCASTAƑER, Xavier
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773 0 8 _tAdministrative Science Quarterly
_g49, 3, p. 337-365
_dIthaca : Johnson Graduate School of Management, September 2004
_xISSN 00018392
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