1. Presented by: Juliet Ikhide -17600068
MGMT 605-Organisational Theory Neil, F. (2001). Organizations: Theoretical Debates and the Scope of Organizational Theory, Department of Sociology. University of California, Berkeley.
Presented by: Juliet Ikhide

2. INTRODUCTION Purpose: To make sense of the OT Strands.
OT Origin: Webers bureaucracy, improvement of management control over work process and industrial organization literature.
Intertwine of OT origin in 1960 and critique in 1970s and 80s.
Outline of the study

3. Questions dominating the field
OUTLINE OF STUDY
Questions dominating the field
1.Efficiency
2.Organisation and environmental constraints
3. Leaders role and organizational-environment fit.
OT strands-an attempt to answer questions in the field.
Issues in the field

4. OT STRANDS/EVOLUTION OF THOUGHTS
S1-WEBER –CLASSICAL
S2- ECONOMICS –NEOCLASSICAL
S3-HUMAN RELATION
RATIONAL ADAPTIVE THEORY
Closed/Rigid/System
open/flexibly/ adaptable system

5. STRAND 3-Human Relations
Managers role
larger organizations-how best to manage it?
Classical theory idea still valid but…built on
Taylor(1911) perspective
Hawthorne(1933) electric plant vs Taylor
Human role+ motivation=increased productivity

6. STRAND 3-Human Relations
Classical theory idea still valid but…built on
Tva and the grass root (1965) vs. weber’s class stratification on modern society-politics of leaders
Alternative theories from bureaucracies (complex)
Blau and scott (1962) Formal organizations-Book

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