ADMS 1010 Lecture 3: Organizational Theory
30 Sep 2015
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Adms 1010 m - lecture 3 organizational theory. Brief history of b-schools: rapid growth of b-schools following wwii. Public policy goal to have no unemployment: carnegie & ford foundations commission studies of business education in the late. Issued in shift to a more traditional academic curriculum, with specialized, functional disciplines. Led to greater legitimacy and power within universities: rapid growth of post-secondary business programs continues to the present. Characteristics: milton friedman"s view predominant: goal of business is to maximize profit, practitioner focus: purpose is to educate business managers. The manager: the person in charge of the organization: managers, plan, organize, lead/coordinate, control. Fact: planning: the manager is a reflective, systematic planner, duties: the effective manager has no regular duties. Information: managers needs aggregated information provided by formal management information system: science: management is a science and a profession, managers work at an unrelenting pace, actions have brevity, variety, discontinuity. Implications for more effective management: share information systematically.
