College notes Organisational Design, Culture and Behaviour (5182KI02) Work and Organizational Behaviour, ISBN: 9781352010978

Organizational Design, Culture,
and Behavior compilation
document
Content
Lecture 1 – 4-2 – Course Opening and Foundations of Work and Organizations – Introducing
Contemporary Organizational Behavior.................................................................................................2
Lecture 2 – 11-2 – Organizational Design and Management – Structure...............................................8
Lecture 5 – 4-3 – Foundations of Work and Organizations – Work and the Gig Economy...................13
Lecture 7 – 1-4 – Individuals in Groups and Teams – Group and Team Dynamics................................16
Lecture 8 – 8-4 – Individuals in Groups and Teams – Communication.................................................18
Lecture 10 – 22-4 – Leadership processes: Power, Politics and Conflict...............................................25




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,Lecture 1 – 4-2 – Course Opening and Foundations of
Work and Organizations – Introducing Contemporary
Organizational Behavior
Peer community

 founding it together
o Learning is a social experience
o Sharing ideas
o Meso-level of organizations
o Organizational theory

Why study organizations?

- We are born in organizations, educated by organizations, and most of us spend much of our
lives working for organizations
o Etzioni
 1964
- Capitalist modernity  organizational failures
o Climate change
o Data privacy
o Lockdown failure
o Sexual harassment
o Glass ceiling
o Vaccine monopolies
o Election fraud
o Labour strikes
o Police brutality
o Sweat shops

How will we study organizations

- Traditional
o Prehistory
 1900-1960s
 Smith
 Marx
 Durkheim
 Taylor
 Fokett
 Fayol
 Weber
 Barnard
- Traditional
o Modern
 1960s and 1970s
 Bertalantly
 Trist and Bernforth


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,  March and Simon
 Woocward
 Burns and Stalke
 Lawrence and Lorach
 Thompson
- Critical
o Symbolic
 1980s
 Schutz
 Whyle
 Herskowitz
 Setrick
 Goffman
 Berger and Luckmann
 Weick
 Geertz
- Critical
o post-modern
 1990s
 Foucault
 Beli
 Derrida
 Jericks
 Lyofard
 Rorty
 Clifford and Marcus
 Baudrillard
- Organizations
o Economics
o Engineering
o Sociology
o Political science
o Biology and ecology
o Social psychology
o Cultural anthropology
o Folklore studies
o Linguistics, semiotics, hermeutics
o Post-structural philosophy ]post-modern architecture
o Literary theory
o Cultural studies
o Aesthetic philosophy

How will we study organizations

- Traditional
o Theories inspired by the science
 Theory as causal explanation
 of performance

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