Organisational Performance: A View From the Arts
Ceri Watkins & Ian W. King. Tamara : Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science. Las Cruces: 2002. Vol. 2, Iss. 1; pg. 31, 16 pgs

Abstract (Article Summary)
This paper suggests that most understandings of organisational performance appears to be about developing a set of rules or prescriptions, that need to be followed if successful performance is to be achieved. It proposes that organisations are still attempting to apprehend and represent the world utilising strategies and understandings that were predominant in the early part of the 20th-century and thus exerted a massive influence during the infancy of management thinking. Influences, which despite their undoubted success in the past, may no longer be as appropriate for the current organisational environment. We then demonstrate how other fields, in particular literature and art have moved on from this position, suggesting that it may be possible to draw on their experiences and explorations in order to gain new understandings of organisational performance.