90900 - ORGANIZATION THEORY AND BEHAVIOUR

Anno Accademico 2019/2020

  • Docente: Cristina Dallara
  • Crediti formativi: 8
  • SSD: SPS/04
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
  • Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Politica, amministrazione e organizzazione (cod. 9085)

    Valido anche per Laurea Magistrale in Comunicazione pubblica e d'impresa (cod. 8840)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

VERSIONE ITALIANO L’insegnamento intende fornire una conoscenza avanzata dei più importanti approcci allo studio della teoria dell’organizzazione e del comportamento organizzativo. Al termine del corso, lo studente sarà in grado di: identificare e distinguere i principali contributi teorici dell’analisi organizzativa, identificando in essi punti di forza e di debolezza; applicare in modo originale i principali metodi e approcci teorici dell’analisi organizzativa a casi di studio reali.

Contenuti

The first part focuses on the main approaches of the industrial sociology and classical organization theory, such as Taylor and the Scientific Management, Mayo and the Human Relation School and the contribution of Barnard on cooperation, efficiency and efficacy. Moreover, this part deals with the theories of personality development, the Toyota model, Weber and the ideal-type of bureaucracy and its critics, such as Gouldner and Merton.

The second part deals with some important issues related to organizations planning and management and organizational behaviour topics: power and the strategical behaviour of organizational actors; the linkage between organization and its environment; organizational structures and organizational culture.

Testi/Bibliografia

Main readings:

Readings:

Week 1

Ch 1, Moorhead, G., & Griffin, R. W. (2008). Organizational behavior managing people and organizations. Dreamtech Press.

Ch 1, Mc Auley et All (2007), Organization theory: challenges and perspectives, Pearson(pp 1-17)

Scott R 2003. “The Subject is Organizations,” Chapter 1, Organizations: Rational, Natural and Open System, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall

Week 2

Chapter 2, Mary Jo Hatch, Ann L. Cunliff (2013), Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern Perspectives, OUP, Oxford (pp 19-40)

Frederick Winslow Taylor in The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists, Oxford University Press, 2018.

Scientific Management in International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, SAGE Reference (2008)

Henri Fayol in The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists, Oxford University Press, 2018.

Week 3

Max Weber (pages 153-160; 212-219) in Sociological theory in the classical era: text and readings. by Laura Desfor Edles; Scott Appelrouth (2010);

"Bureaucracy." International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. 2007. SAGE Publications. 3 Sep. 2009.

<http://www.sage-ereference.com/organization/Article_n41.html>.

Week 4

George Elton Mayo in The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists, Oxford University Press, 2018.

Hawthorne Studies." International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. 2007. SAGE Publications. 3 Sep.

2009. <http://www.sage-ereference.com/organization/Article_n201.html>.

Week 5

Chester Barnard and the Systems Approach to Nurturing Organizations in The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists, Oxford University Press, 2018

The Tavistock Group in The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists, Oxford University Press, 2018

Week 6

Gareth Morgan Paradigms, Metaphors, and Puzzle Solving in Organization Theory in Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Dec., 1980), pp. 605-622Published

Week 7

“An Introduction to McDonaldization,” pp. 1–19 in The McDonaldization of Society, 3rd ed., by George Ritzer. 2000, Pine Forge Press, Thousand Oaks, CA.

Week 8

Japanese Management in International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies (2008)

TOYOTA PRODUCTION SYSTEM BASIC HANDBOOK

Week 9

Weick, Karl E, The collapse of sensemaking in organizations: The Mann Gulch disaster in Administrative Science Quarterly; Dec 1993; 38, 4;

Edgar Schein, Culture: The Missing Concept in Organization Studies, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 2, 40th Anniversary Issue (Jun., 1996), pp. 229-240

 

Additional case studies will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Metodi didattici

Lectures; case studies analysis.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

For students attending REGULARLY classes:

A final research paper with presentation and discussion in class;

For students NOT attending classes:

A written exam with 5 open questions on the whole programme.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

PPT; Videos; web-sites.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Cristina Dallara

SDGs

Imprese innovazione e infrastrutture Città e comunità sostenibili

L'insegnamento contribuisce al perseguimento degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile dell'Agenda 2030 dell'ONU.