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Lecture notes from Introduction to Managing and Organising at Universiteit Antwerpen, covering the foundational concepts of management and organizational behavior. Topics include sensemaking in management, organizational framing, manager rationality, bounded rationality, resistance to change, and the digital transformation of organizations including the gig economy and Industry 4.0. These notes break down complex management theories with practical examples, making them ideal for understanding how managers create meaning and navigate organizational change in contemporary business environments.

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Managing and


·
Making sense management

the process
management =
of communicating cordinating ,
and accomplishing
action in the pursuit of organizational objectives

managing collaborative relationships with : -stakeholders
- customers
-
...
expleyels

=> neutral It's not only the
:
capacity to deliver objective gains in
productivity /

Efficiency
= It's a socio-political ,
social political and ethical
responsibilities

managers strive to set a comman frame so that
organizational members , customer
,
suppliers , investor elc , con male common sense of ter aganizations


senssmaking
developmentploteeen
theanyretopectiepropertine
=




doing

7 the process throug which individuals and groups give
meaning
to something
-the identity of the person
making seuse is important role and
legitimacy
seuse making in a
capitalist system :




-Managers have to make sense of the profit driestation
1
>
- the alt
of making seuse of you company =a hip company
=> dane to challege the narrative !


·
significat part of managing = to make commer
meaning our of people
.

managing in a complex world :
-
It's noti
style that fits all
= I a good manager inderstand , the complexity of a huma being and
the situation

, ·
managing requires framing :the leader decides on what is relevant

From theD awant of stimule ,behavioral
wee seuse dat that surroud us
,




framing contains :
-metaphas elogan
· -




-

repetition ----


-the
citing of tradition
when :
especially in the case of organizational change
leaders are expected to frame the sense that other make

keyrole ga manager

Sense is because
·
making a acute issue
-
incerpain and
in moments
of risis
lack of information
:



- time pressure
-
emotion
=> a leader should make break ,
and give sense to these events


sense breaking organizational members disrupt an
existing semse to make altritative

sense
>
-
"It doesn't mahe sente


.
Sensgiving-attempts to influence the seusemaking of other so that others
come to accept a preferred meaning

·
Manager rationality
=
making logical and efficient decisions within a
specific context.
Using
reasoning and data to find the best soluties
-don't overeihasize management toos 1 C manager rationality
.
.




= rational managers never have perfect knowledge of the situation
claims that thegrands
of exclusive
·

managerialism =
managers manage on

education and the possession of codified bodies of know-

ledge
to problems
portrays management as a universal solution all


> justifies one-dimensidal
managerial techniques

, ·

managerialism is an expressio of ecaomic rationalism

>= argues that markets and prices are the
only reliable indices of
value ,
deliviring better outcomes the states and bureaucracies

capital : on asset and with the intention of delivering a return to the ower,
implying a complex set of relations and associated obligation




>
financial capitar money =


social capital-relation and knowledge embedded in relations

symbolic capital reputation
=




metaphores-frame seusemaking by using terms other tha those of the subject
under discussion to describe that subject


·
people are characterized by banded rationality :



=
producing satisfactory rather than optimally rational decision =


that are both sufficient and
satisficing :
accepting decision
satisfying
X goed genay
=>
rationality is always contextually and
cognitively limited
·

managing
and organizations are
constatly changing
= wher people arecofident about their model (thinking its lational) ,
too
resistance is looking irrational
=> a resistance to change is expected

those aganizational activities and attitudes that aim to
=


thwat , indermine and impede change initiatives

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