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105: Manifest & Latent Roles -- Alvin Gouldner (Part 1)
105: Manifest & Latent Roles -- Alvin Gouldner (Part 1)
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41 minutes
Released:
Sep 12, 2023
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Alvin Gouldner wrote the article, “Cosmopolitans and locals: Toward an analysis of latent social roles” in 1957 to propose that through the 1950s latent roles had been seriously overlooked by scholars. Manifest roles, described as those roles and role identities that are directly related to one’s defined position in the organizational structure, had been the sole focus. Latent roles comprised the complementary roles that members made salient but were not officially recognized. Instead, managers might dismiss such roles as “irrelevant, inappropriate, or illegitimate” to recognize formally despite them being essential in the organization’s social fabric.
Released:
Sep 12, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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