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Jazz: A Metaphor for High-Performance Teams
Jazz: A Metaphor for High-Performance Teams
Pages 238-244
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The growing literature about jazz provides considerable insight about the organizational and social dynamics of the jazz world through anecdotes about the behavior of its performers and leaders. Does this organizational research on the behavioral aspects of the jazz milieu have wider implications for the practice of employee involvement groups in other occupations?
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. During the time I played with him he would create the environment for the music, then let the musicians deal with it." Jazz drummer and leader Art Blakey says (Rosenthal, 1986~: "I try to play in the rhythm section to make the soloist play, make him feel like playing.
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Unlike many manufacturing jobs, however, the price of admission for the jazz musician is a lifetime apprenticeship for a highly insecure career poorly understood by the ultimate consumer. The consequences may be a high level of psychological anxiety and stress, sometimes manifested by individual health problems (Wills and Cooper, 19881.
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Jazz ensembles of more than seven players have rarely attempted collective improvisation. Instead of relying on chord changes to a tune for the skeleton of group improvisation, larger jazz ensembles use written arrangements that provide planned opportunities for improvised solos.
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A band leader generally retains complete power to hire and fire his musicians, and within boundaries established by the American Federation of Musicians, to set their pay levels and the conditions of their travel. His relationship with fellow musicians in the band ranges from tolerant avoidance to lifelong friendship.
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Jazz as a metaphor for even larger multiechelon manufacturing organizations may be stretching beyond the scope of plausibility. With some reservation, then, I close with an anecdote about the Savoy Sultan Jump band.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT Karl E Weick, Rensis Likert Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, The University of Michigan School of Business Administration was most helpful in the preparation of this paper.
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