Organization & Management Theories Ali Asghar Pourezzat ...

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Organization & Management Theories
Ali Asghar Pourezzat University of Tehran MBA Course
Week 4:
90/12/12
Week 5:
90/12/19
Week 6
90/12/26
Organization As Natural Systems.
Organization As Open Systems.
Contingency And System Perspectives.
Chapter 1: Management
Chapter 2: The External and Internal Environments
Chapter 3: Globalization and the Manager
Symbolic Perspectives.
Postmodern Perspectives.
Organizations As collage.
Technology & Structure.
Goals, Power And Control.
The Dyadic Environmental Organization.
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Week 7:
91/01/18
Week 8:
91/01/25
Week 9:
91/02/1
Week 10:
91/02/8
Week 11:
91/02/15
Week 12:
91/02/22
Week 13:
91/02/29
Week 14:
91/03/5
Week 15:
91/03/12
Week 16:
91/03/19
Chapter 4: Stakeholders, Ethics, and Corporate
Social Responsibility
Chapter 5: Planning and Decision Making
Chapter 6: Strategy
Chapter 7: Managing Operations Chapter 8:
Organizing
Chapter 9: Control Systems
Chapter 10: Organizational Culture
Chapter 11: Developing High-Performance Teams
Chapter 12: Staffing and Developing a Diverse
Workforce
Chapter 13: Motivating and Rewarding Employee
Performance
Chapter 14: Managing Employee Attitudes and Well-
Being
Chapter 15: Managing through Power, Influence,
and Negotiation
Chapter 16: Effective Leadership
Chapter 17: Communication
Chapter 18: Managing Innovation and Change
Contours Of Organizations And Organizational
Theories.
Discussion &Conclusion.
Organization Of Environment.
Networks In And Around Organization.
Strategy, Structure, And Performance:
The Sociology Of Organizational Strategy.
The Rise And Transformation Of Corporate
Form.
General Systems Theory (GST).
Law of Requisite Complexity (LRC) & Law
of Requisite Diversity (LRD).
Chaos Theory.
Important Subjects in Organization Theory.
Paradigms of organization theory.
Theory building in Organization Theory.
Future of Organization Theory.
VII. Guidelines for Papers
Topics: The paper topics should be drawn from any of the O.T areas
discussed in the class. You should also choose an O.T issue directly to be
addressed in relative class session, but it ought to be related to the issues
already discussed and analyzed.
Papers: Write-ups should be about 15 to 25 pages long (Microsoft Word,
Single-spaced, Font: Zar, Font Size: 14, Line Spacing: Single, one inch
margins). A good write-up would describe the issue, analyze the problems