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How do the three perspectives (Modern, Symbolic-Interpretive, and Post-modern) contribute to different ways to think about organisations?

On the other hand , postmodern thinking , privileges a 'weak ' ontology of becoming which emphasizes a transient , ephemeral and emergent reality . From this thought style reality is deemed to be continuously in transformation and hence not presentable in any static sense

Many organizations have stopped following the normal and frequently used methods of management and therefore they are carrying out their management as per the situation and economy . For instance , during these times of economical crisis , many organizations are trying to find better ways to minimize the expenditure by introducing more efficient

br mechanisms that will contribute in lowering the operation expenses . For example , the telecommunication firms are introducing automated systems that are working to perform some functions like customer care hence cut costs associated with herring the attendants

However , postmodern perspectives generate even more trouble to be found It diverges from the other two perspectives in its unwillingness to seek Truth or to make permanent ontological or commitments like those that give rise to modernist forms of scientific approach or to symbolic-interpretive s of meaning and human meaning making activity . From these other perspectives , postmodern perspective is seen to move lightly between philosophical positions (Bolman and Deal 1997 They more often refuse to take a temporary philosophical stand simply because they believe that doing so will privilege some forms of knowledge over others and this would violate postmodern ethics

The previous two perspectives haven 't ignored the challenge laid down by postmodernists . For instance , symbolic- interpretivists , and more recently modernists , have responded to these challenges within their own systems of commitment . This has resulted to some movement toward greater self-consciousness about the assumptions that each perspective make , and how these commitments apply to the practices of social science and the theories which result from their application . For example postmodernists have critiqued...

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