Macro OrganizationalTheory and Design

BA 152Dick Blackburn

McColl 4613

962-3162

dick_blackburn@unc.edu

Some Course Information

Look at course syllabus Visit to the course website

http://public.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/courses/bsba/ba152

Getting Daily Class Information

Don’t download anything, just take notes. Download “empty” slides before class and

take notes on these.– Print “pure black and white”– Save a tree, print two or three slides per page

After class, don’t download “full” slides, just compare full slides after class with your class notes.

Download some or all full slides after class– Print “pure black and white”– Save a tree, print two or three slides per page

Getting Other Class Information

Additional class information will be made available via e-mail, so please check your e-mail regularly.

Use phone or e-mail to communicate with me. I will try and respond as soon as possible.

What is an Organization?

Social Entity

Goal-Directed

Structured Activities

Linked to the Environment

(Identifiable Boundaries)

Environment

Cultures

PEOPLESystems

TechnologiesStructuresStrategies

Goals

FIT!

Characteristics of Organizations:BA 150 Perspective

Environment

Cultures

GOALSSTRATEGIESSTRUCTURES

TECHNOLOGIESSYSTEMS

PeopleFIT!

Characteristics of Organizations:BA 152 Perspective

Some Useful Definitions

Organizational Behavior -Attitudes & behaviors of individuals and groups in organizations.

Organizational Theory -Group coordination and organizational interactions with other organizations and with the environment.

Management -The integration of people, groups, and divisions to achieve individual and organizational goals.

Context for the course

New trends reshaping organizationsNew principles for surviving in the 21st

century

Trends Reshaping Organizations? Hierarchies will still work in some settings, but we will see more organizations built as Networks.

More Technicians will be dealing with greater levels of automation.

Services will represent a great proportion of output and will often be included in products

Organizations are using more Virtual activities with teams working “at a distance”

Organizations and their employees will have to generate profits ethically.

Trends Reshaping Organizations?

Work requiring … Continuous Learning Higher-order Thinking Non-traditional Locations Non-traditional Hours

In the Future . . .

“Everything” will get cheaper forever.

Cutting costs will not be the only answer.

Innovation to increase revenues and build profits is crucial.

Human capital (you/us) is the only real asset. It is the key source of innovation.

Goals for BA 152

To help you make better predictions about how/why you and others feel and behave the way you/they do.

To help you understand what allows us to make more accurate predictions.

To use that understanding to better control what goes on in our lives and organizations.

Goals for BA 152

Prediction +Understanding

= Control

For Next Time

Please sit where you would like to spend the next couple of weeks.

Pictures - bring name plateSeating chartSee you Monday.