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Many different definitions of organizations have been set forth, but they have certain fundamental or essential elements. Organizations consist of (1) goal oriented arrangement, people with purpose, (2) psychological systems, people interacting in groups (3) technological systems, people using knowledge and techniques and (4) integration of structured activities, people working together in patterned relationships. Management involves the coordination of resources toward objective accomplishment. Sources and Inspiration to organization theory Classical Modern Symbolic Interpretive

Post Modern

Multiple perspectives Theory is an explanation. It is an attempt to explain a segment of experience in the world. Concepts provide categories for sorting, organizing, and sorting experience. They are ideas formed by the process of abstraction.

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IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM ORGANIZATION THEORY AND MANAGEMET 01

Histories, Metaphors and Perspectives in Organization Theory Three phases of industrialism Post Industrialism and Post Industrial Organization Classical Influences on Organization Theory Adam Smith Karl Marx Emile Durkheim Fredrick W. Taylor Henri Fayol Max Weber Chester Barnard Contemporary Influences on Organization Theory Modernist Systems Theory Contingency Theory Symbolic Interpretive Social Constructionist Postmodernism

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Differences in the multiple perspectives of organization

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Metaphors of organization theory

Bibliography: Hatch M. J. (1997). Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic and Post Modern Perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press. Kast F. E. and Rosenzweig J. E. (1995). Organization and Management: A systems and contingency approach. 6th Edition. Singapore: McGraw-Hill. Shafritz J. M. and Ott J. S. (1996). Classics of Organization Theory. 4th Edition. New York: Harcourt Brace.

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