ABSTRACT
Threads' served as our metaphor for theories of organizations. 'Fabric' referred to the interwoven forces that form organizations. And 'fibres', the woof, weft, and tensile strength of organizations, describes people in organizations. Sixty-three percent of government workers prefer to work for government rather than business, and local government employees appear to feel the most positive about working for government. Organizationally, 'public service motivation tends to be positively related to job satisfaction, choosing a public sector job, individual and organizational performance, organizational and job commitment, person-organization fit, and organizational citizenship behavior'. Administrative man bridges psychological man and rational man. The freakish fusion of the Freudian and the fiscal, when combined with any organization's obsession with minimizing uncertainty, can produce 'the bureaucratic personality', a phrase that resonates with 'Veblen's concept of 'trained incapacity', Dewey's notion of 'occupational psychosis' or Warnotte's view of 'professional deformation'.
