A Journey into Disillusionment—Discovering Problems

This chapter discusses a variety of problems that were experienced regarding research methodology and the conceptualizations of topics from the 1950s to the 2000s. Although a chronological approach may cause confusion, the book uses this approach because it will allow the readers to relate through their own experience. Although the book has attempted to report personal experiences accurately, this chapter explains that our brains alter our memories for the events to seem more logical. Objective facts regarding several of the events that the book enlists therefore did not existed as some people may have observed and they may have remembered the events differently. The book assumes that generalizations about organizations are based on changes in education, occupational and task specialization, technologies, and other such social and technological changes during the last half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.