Showing posts with label people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label people. Show all posts

Thursday, December 13, 2007

4. The political nature of organisations

March and Simon's cognitive limts to rationality
Pfeffer's organisations as political arenas

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

5. Contingeny Theorists

Herbert Simon and the principles backlash
Kat and Kahn's environemental perspective
Woodward, Perrow and Thompson's view on technology as a key component of organisational structure, analysis and design
And - The Aston Group's view on how size affects and organisation.

Monday, November 12, 2007

6. Management as a human relations paradigm

Elton Mayo and the Hawthorn experiements
Douglas McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y
Warren Bennis and the Death of Bureaucracy