Transcript Case Analyses Some Suggestions

Macro Organizational
Theory and Design
BA 152
Dick Blackburn
McColl 4613
962-3162
[email protected]
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What is an Organization?
Social Entity
Goal-Directed
Structured Activities
Linked to the Environment
(Identifiable Boundaries)
Characteristics of Organizations:
BA 150 Perspective
Environment
Goals
Strategies
Structures
Technologies
Systems
PEOPLE
Cultures
Characteristics of Organizations:
BA 152 Perspective
Environment
Cultures
GOALS
STRATEGIES
STRUCTURES
TECHNOLOGIES
SYSTEMS
People
Some Useful Definitions
Organizational Theory Group coordination and organizational interactions with other
organizations and with the environment.
Organizational Behavior Attitudes & behaviors of individuals and groups in
organizations.
Management The integration of people, groups, and divisions to
achieve individual and organizational goals.
Context for the course
New trends reshaping organizations
 New principles for surviving in the 21st
century
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Trends Reshaping Organizations?
Hierarchies will still work in some settings, but
we will see more organizations built as Networks.
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More Technicians will be dealing with greater
levels of automation.
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Services will represent a great proportion of
output and will often be included in products
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Organizations are using more Virtual activities
with teams working “at a distance”
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Organizations and their employees will have to
generate profits ethically.
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Trends Reshaping Organizations?
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Work requiring …
 Continuous Learning
 Higher-order Thinking
 Non-traditional Locations
 Non-traditional Hours
In the Future . . .
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“Everything” will get cheaper forever.
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Cutting costs will not be the only answer.
Innovation to increase revenues and build
profits is crucial.
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Human capital (you/us) is the only real
asset. It is the key source of innovation.
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Goals for BA 152
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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
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