Organizational Sinking Downwards:Multiple Forms and Action Logic of Officials' Sinking Downwards in Crisis Management
Crisis management often faces such extreme situations as sudden changes in the external environment of the organization and internal functional failures,thus the regular bureaucratic system has to be adjusted and optimized to adapt to the highly abnormal external environment.The officials'sinking downwards is an important way to realize the shift of management focus downwards and strengthen the lo-calized administration in an emergency state.From the perspective of organizational degree and target,S City has formed four types of organizational sinking downwards.With the integration of identity embed-ding,organizational embedding,incentive embedding,and technology embedding,the embedded gov-ernance of officials'sinking downwards has been realized.This unconventional management process re-engineering can be quickly transformed into a positive practical driving force,such as guiding resources downwards,realizing efficient organizational mobilization,promoting the coordination of tiao/kuai rela-tions,and building a crisis management community.The officials'sinking downwards in crisis manage-ment is essentially a hierarchical organizational mobilization that integrates the Party and government ad-ministration.The basic logic of its organizational operation is centralization,shift of focus downwards,primary-level empowerment,and flexibility and efficiency.With the support of the dual-layered organiza-tional structure of the Party and government administration,the authority of political mechanisms and the flexibility of administrative mechanisms are effectively integrated.