Abstract
Survey data are analyzed Hayashi's third method of quantification and cluster analysis, to investigate the relationships between ambiguity in organizational practices and organizational effectiveness. The following main features are suggested : (1) Main organizational effectiveness on ambiguity in organizational practices are flexibility-adaptability and efficiency in organizational level, mutual trust-group harmony-stability in group level, and autonomy-exhibition of ability-development of ability in individual level. (2) Though organizational effectiveness regarding the ambiguity in organizational practices depends on the kinds of ambituigy based on different dimensions of ambiguity, flexibility-adaptability is connected with all kinds of ambiguity based on propensity for non-exclution of ambiguity.