ABSTRACT
In institutional terms individuals represent the managers and the managed. Members can develop political machinery to enable them to carry out this exploration. Critics of the design of conferences have sometimes expressed the view that timetables and events are too rigid and that by establishing them management style and behaviour is too authoritarian. The institutional event seeks to lead to an understanding of the internal life and behaviour of the conference. While conference life is internally generated, it is inevitably coloured by the importation by the members and staff of their own values and experiences gained from their normal operational environments. Members and staff have each joined from their own individual environments and have experienced the process of joining and creating a unique organization which, by the start of the institutional event. The institutional event can illuminate many aspects of organizational life.
