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Collective Behavior in Organizational Settings

Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Wisconsin-Platteville

In a community mental health center which stressed professional colleagueship and deemphasized administrative power, unilateral use of authority presented recurring, contingent crises. Two episodes are compared and analyzed to reveal negotiation as the primary mechanism of controlling equals and to indicate collective behavior as an alternative course toward negotiated order when routine channels of communication are blocked.

Work and Occupations, Vol. 3, No. 2, 151-168 (1976)
DOI: 10.1177/073088847600300202


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