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BA 5201Organization and Management

Organization theory and manager

Instructor: Çağrı Topal

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Context and challangesManaging organizations in a global

environmentDesigning and restructuring

organizationsImproving quality, empowering

organization members, and enhancing competitiveness

Reducing complexity, increasing speed, and reacting to environmental changes

Providing ethical and moral management of the organization

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DefinitionTwo or more people working together

cooperatively within identifiable boundaries to accomplish a common goal or objective• People or members• Division of labor among members• Boundaries• Shared goals or objectives

Human systems of cooperation and coordination assembled within identifiable boundaries to pursue shared goals or objectives

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Organizations as a system-1Organizations are composed of

interacting partsOrganizations are a functioning

wholeOrganizations are synergisticOrganizations are an open system

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Organizations as a system-2

External environmentProcesses  

Inputs Transformation

Outputs 

Sources of inputs and constraints

Human resourcesMaterial resourcesFinancial resourcesInformation

ProductionManagementMaintenanceAdaptation

Sales of outputAdvertisingPublic relations Output

opportunities and constraints

Subsystems  

External environment

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History of organization theoryAdam Smith and division of laborMax Weber and bureaucracyClassical school• Frederick Taylor and scientific management• Henry Fayol and coordination/specialization

Human relations schoolContingency school

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Contemporary perspectivesOrganizational economicsInstitutional theoryCultural perspectivesEcological perspectives