Organizational Theory
Publisher: Bookboon
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 978-87-7681-169-7
Table of contents: title: Innhold; title: Organizational theory in perspective; title: Requirements of future organizations; title: Levels and perspectives in organizational theory; title: The connecting thread in organizational theory; title: Chronological outline of organizational theories; title: Focus on task performance and structure; title: Scientific Management – F.W. Taylor; title: Administrative Theory – H. Fayol; title: Bureaucracy Model – M. Weber; title: Organizational structure; title: Theory of Administrative Behavior – H. Simon; title: Team organization; title: Pitfalls in focus on task performance and structure; title: Literature for chapter 2; title: Focus on motivation; title: Theoretical approaches to motivation; title: Inner motivation; title: Motivational theory based on rational factors; title: Motivational theory based on needs; title: Outer motivation; title: Motivation and money; title: Motivation and absence due to illness; title: Motivation and age; title: Pitfalls in focus on motivation; title: Literature for chapter 3; title: Focus on adjustments to the external environment; title: Organizational model with loose couplings – K. Weick; title: Organizational Learning – J.G. March and J. Olsen; title: The Learning Organization – C. Argyris and P. Senge; title: Organizational culture; title: Rational adjustment with the Contingency theory – Lawrence and Lorsch; title: External Environment Factors and Five Organizational Forms – Mintzberg; title: Pitfalls in focus on adjustment to the external environment; title: Litteratur til kapitel 4; title: Management 91; title: Management is both management and leadership – Kouzes and Posner; title: Continuum of Leadership Behavior – Tannenbaum-Schmidt; title: Model for Situational Leadership – Hersey and Blanchard; title: Value-based Leadership – Fairholm; title: Leading Change – John Kotter; title: Appreciative Inquiry – Cooperriders; title: Lean Management; title: Pitfalls in management approaches; title: Literature for chapter 5; title: Endnotes