Organizational Theory
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 978-87-7681-169-7
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. Organizational theory in perspective; title: 1.1. Requirements of future organizations; title: 1.2. Levels and perspectives in organizational theory; title: 1.3. The connecting thread in organizational theory; title: 1.4. Chronological outline of organizational theories; title: 2. Focus on task performance and structure; title: 2.1. Scientific Management – F.W. Taylor; title: 2.2. Administrative Theory – H. Fayol; title: 2.3. Bureaucracy Model – M. Weber; title: 2.4. Organizational structure; title: 2.5. Theory of Administrative Behavior – H. Simon; title: 2.6. Team organization; title: 2.7. Pitfalls in focus on task performance and structure; title: 2.8. Literature for chapter 2; title: 3. Focus on motivation; title: 3.1. Theoretical approaches to motivation; title: 3.2. Inner motivation; title: 3.3. Motivational theory based on rational factors; title: 3.4. Motivational theory based on needs; title: 3.5. Outer motivation; title: 3.6. Motivation and money; title: 3.7. Motivation and absence due to illness; title: 3.8. Motivation and age; title: 3.9. Pitfalls in focus on motivation; title: 3.10. Literature for chapter 3; title: 4. Focus on adjustments to the external environment; title: 4.1. Organizational model with loose couplings – K. Weick; title: 4.2. Organizational Learning – J.G. March and J. Olsen; title: 4.3. The Learning Organization – C. Argyris and P. Senge; title: 4.4. Organizational culture; title: 4.5. Rational adjustment with the Contingency theory – Lawrence and Lorsch; title: 4.6. External Environment Factors and Five Organizational Forms – Mintzberg; title: 4.7. Pitfalls in focus on adjustment to the external environment; title: 4.8. Litteratur til kapitel 4; title: 5. Management 91; title: 5.1. Management is both management and leadership – Kouzes and Posner; title: 5.2. Continuum of Leadership Behavior – Tannenbaum-Schmidt; title: 5.3. Model for Situational Leadership – Hersey and Blanchard; title: 5.4. Value-based Leadership – Fairholm; title: 5.5. Leading Change – John Kotter; title: 5.6. Appreciative Inquiry – Cooperriders; title: 5.7. Lean Management; title: 5.8. Pitfalls in management approaches; title: 5.9. Literature for chapter 5; title: 6. Endnotes