ABSTRACT
The preceding chapter provided a snapshot of organizational behavior in the organizations operating under nonfacilitative government. The picture is the unhappy one of comparatively greater distrust, cheating, obsequiousness, and reliance on personal relationships in the distribution of organizational positions and rewards. Such observations beg elaboration. Although questionnaire-based comparisons are useful, alone they are an incomplete picture of organizational behavior under conditions of nonfacilitative government. In this chapter, observations, supplemented by participants’ reports, when possible, are used to explore several of the more complex behavioral syndromes in organizations that appear to be associated with nonfacilitative government. Each has been noted by observers and scholars, but they have tended to treat them as cultural facts to be described rather than explained.
