BA 5201 Organization and Management Organization theory and manager Instructor: Ça ğ rı Topal 1

Context and challanges Managing organizations in a global environment Designing and restructuring organizations Improving quality, empowering organization members, and enhancing competitiveness Reducing complexity, increasing speed, and reacting to environmental changes Providing ethical and moral management of the organization 2

Definition Two 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 3

Organizations as a system-1 Organizations are composed of interacting parts Organizations are a functioning whole Organizations are synergistic Organizations are an open system 4

Organizations as a system-2 External environment Processes InputsTransformationOutputs Sources of inputs and constraints Human resources Material resources Financial resources Information Production Management Maintenance Adaptation Sales of output Advertising Public relations Output opportunities and constraints Subsystems External environment 5

History of organization theory Adam Smith and division of labor Max Weber and bureaucracy Classical school Frederick Taylor and scientific management Henry Fayol and coordination/specialization Human relations school Contingency school 6

Contemporary perspectives Organizational economics Institutional theory Cultural perspectives Ecological perspectives 7