Talking About Organizations Podcast

85: Carnegie-Mellon Series #6 -- Organizations (Part 1)

Jan 11, 2022

49:12

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Organization Theories - A Brief Introduction

02:09

How to Avoid Inefficient Organizations?

04:34

Is Unmanaged Conflict a Good Idea?

02:30

Introduction

3min

Martin Simon's Organizational Theory

2min

The Index of Variables in a Book

2min

Organization Studies in Theory of Proper Science

3min

Is Organization a Social System?

2min

Organization Theories - A Brief Introduction

2min

Organization Is the Structure of the Organization

2min

Organizational Communication Is So Important

3min

What Are They Really Trying to Do With These Propositions?

2min

10.

Sociological Ideas for This Book

2min

11.

Commitment in the Organizational Culture - Chapter Four

2min

12.

I Really Liked the Chapters of the Book

2min

13.

The Three Dash Seven Figures Are Very Helpful, I Will Say That Much

2min

14.

How Many Action Alternatives Do You Have?

2min

15.

The Models of a Bureaucracy - Chapter Five

4min

16.

Conflicts and Organizational Change

3min

17.

Is Unmanaged Conflict a Good Idea?

2min

18.

Do You Actually Do Something?

2min

19.

How to Avoid Inefficient Organizations?

5min

20.

The Garbage Can Model - Part Two

3min

In this episode, we discuss the second edition of James March and Herbert Simon’s classic text Organizations. In addition to the well-known concepts such as bounded rationality and satisficing, the book introduces an important critique of the mechanistic view that “classic” organization theory to that point approached organizations and its members. How do decisions get made? What causes individuals or join, stay in, or leave organizations? What about the causes and effects of conflict? We explore all this and more.

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