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Sudden Lost Meaning: A Catastrophe?

Patricia Karathanos (Chair of Administrative Sciences, at Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA.)
M. Diane Pettypool (Associate Professor of Management, at Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA.)
Marvin D. Troutt (Henry J. Rehn Research Professor of Management at Southern Illinois University, Illinois, USA.)

Management Decision

ISSN: 0025-1747

Article publication date: 1 February 1994

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Abstract

Employees communicate more easily and are more committed to the organization when beliefs and values are shared. Explores the phenomenon of sudden “lost meaning” – a situation in which individuals who strongly share the organization′s culture appear suddenly to cease to identify with the meanings and values to which they once strongly ascribed. Discovers two variables through examination of motivation theory. Proposes that these variables provide insight into sudden lost meaning and, consequently, suggest a framework for managerial behaviour.

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Karathanos, P., Diane Pettypool, M. and Troutt, M.D. (1994), "Sudden Lost Meaning: A Catastrophe?", Management Decision, Vol. 32 No. 1, pp. 15-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/00251749410050679

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