Introduction
Organizational theory is theories that are developed by various philosophers to understand and explain the role of organizational structure and management in an organization. It helps to study the organization and management that provides help to the managers to understand the organizational and management behavior of the organization. Organizational theory mainly depends on three perspectives. These three perspectives are modernist perspective, symbolic interpretive perspective and post-modern theory. These perspectives have their different approaches to explaining the organizational structure to the managers of an organization (Hall and Quinn, 1983). The modernist theories depend on the objectives of focusing on the knowledge that is built upon the theorization and the conceptualization. If an example is considered, it can be said that a profit earned by an organization depends on the ability and knowledge of the CEO’s decision-making regarding the investment of the money of an organization. Hence, the result of the use of theory can be measured in the practical world by the mean of profit and loss of the organization. In case of symbolic interpretive perspective, the theory looks at the experiences of emotions and intuition. Therefore, the findings of symbolic perspective are not easily replicated. Postmodernist theories do not accept any of the two other perspective theories and are quite different from them. The postmodernists criticized and surfaced the assumptions of the other two theories. This report is written to make a research on the perspectives of the organizational theories and understand how they differentiate in the approaches to explaining the use of technology in an organization (Heracleous and Barrett, 2001). A comparison has been made between the organizational theory perspective to understand their characteristics and differences. As it is known that these theories help to build up an organizational culture depending upon the nature of the business that is needed to seek growth in the present competitive and globalized world. With the development of technology, the theories have also developed to meet the growing needs of the organization and its management. Here in this report, two perspectives of the organizational theory have been compared that are modernist and symbolic interpretive perspective to understand its difference in uses of technology in an organization.
