Course Description
Organization Theory teaches us how to create and manage a business organization. The manager tries to pursue efficiency – to maximize output by minimizing costs. In order to manage an organization efficiently, the manager deals with the supra-system, system, and subsystem of the organization. The supra-system is the environment that influences the organization globally, regionally, and locally in terms of politics and law, economy, science and technology, and socio-culture. The supra-system affects the system, but the system also affects the supra-system through interactions.
The system – organization itself – consists of several sub-systems including organizational goals and values, the organizational structure, organizational behavior, human resources, finances, Information technology, supply chain from production to marketing, and control and coordination under corporate leadership. The Subsystems interact each other within the system or organization under the control of the leadership. Once an Input enters the system, which produce output that reenter the system: the feedback continues until output meets the organizational goal. A system’s approach to management is a contingency view that seeks to understand the interrelationships within and among subsystems as well as between the organization and its environment, and to define patterns of relationships or configurations of variables through various models and methods.
Course Objectives
Organization Theory requires students to understand following subject areas: 1. Introduction to Organization Theory: A system’s approach to management; A Brief History
2. Organizational Environment and Inter-organizational Relationships
3. Organizational Goals Including Organizational Culture, Social Responsibility, and Ethical Values
4. The Physical Structure of Organizations; and Organizational Size, Life, Cycle, and Decline
5. Organizational Behavior – Psychology
6. Human Resource Management
7. Financial Management
8. Operations and Supply Chain Management: Manufacturing and Service Technologies, Innovation and Changes
9. Information Technology for Control and Coordination
10. The Managerial Subsystem:
10-I. Decision-making Processes; 10-II. Managerial control and Conflict-Power-Politics
11. Practical Issues and New Directions in Organization Theory
Lecture Materials
| Lecture | Materials |
| 1. Introduction to Organizational Management Brief History of Organization Theory | Slides Lecture Notes |
| 2. Organizational Environment and Inter-organizational Relationships | Slides Lecture Notes |
| 3. Organizational Goals and Values, Organizational Culture, Social Responsibility & Ethics | Slides Lecture Notes |
| 4. The Physical Structures of Organizations, Size, Life, Cycle, and Decline | Slides Lecture Notes |
| 5. Organizational Behavior – Psychology | Slides Lecture Notes |
| 6. Human Resource Management | Slides Lecture Notes |
| Midterm Examination | Exam How to Write A Good Term Paper |
| 7. Financial Management | Slides Lecture Notes |
| 8. Operations and Supply Chain Management: Manufacturing and Service Technologies, Innovation and Changes | Slides Lecture Notes |
| 9. Information Technology for Control and Coordination 10. Marketing Principles | Slides Lecture Notes |
| 10. Organization and Marketing Principles | Slides Lecture Notes |
| 11. The Managerial Subsystem I Managerial task and Decision-making processes | Slides Lecture Notes |
| 12. Managerial Subsystem II Organizational control; Conflict-Power-Politics | Slides Lecture Notes |
| Final Examination | Exam |
Texts Books
1. REQUIRED: Daft, Richard L. Organization Theory and Design, 12th ed. Mason, OH: South Western, 2015. ISBN-10: 1285866347
2. RECOMMENDED: Cummings, Thomas G. Organization Development & Change, 10th ed. Samford, CT: Cengage Learning, 2014. ISBN-10: 1133190456
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