The Nature Of Organizations

Understand the Models, Power, and Culture of Modern Organizations

What you'll learn

Understand the nature of organizations and how they work

Be able to identify and understand the common models for the way organizations work

Recognize and work with different forms of power in organizations

Understand organizational culture and how it forms

Recognize different organizational cultures

Understand the principal contributions of six critical organizational thinkers

Requirements

No experience is necessary, but a familiarity with different types of organizations will help you to put the course into context.

Description

We all work within one form of organization or another. And, if you want to advance, you'll need to understand how organizations work.A great number of smart people have made a detailed study of organizations. And, if you work in one, their ideas can teach you a lot that is valuable. So, this course summarizes the most important of these ideas.It is designed to serve the needs of working managers, who need a broad-brush overview of all the important thinking. It will help you if you need to understand:What an organization isHow different organizations are structuredHow to navigate the power structures within organizationsWhat we mean by organizational culture and where it comes fromThe different types of organizational cultureThe ideas of the leading thinkers on organizational theory and practiceFive SectionsThis course is made up of five sections, which cover:Introduction to OrganizationsOrganizational ModelsPower in OrganizationsOrganizational CultureMasters of OrganizationsIn this course, you’ll meet the work of people like Kim Cameron, Peter Drucker, Amitai Etzioni, Charles Handy, Geert Hofstede, Henry Mintzberg, Gareth Morgan, Edgar Schein, Max Weber, and many more. But, more importantly, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the way the organizations you work in and with operate. This will give you a real edge in climbing the organizational ladder.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to Organizations

Lecture 1 What is an Organization?

Lecture 2 Morgan’s Eight Organizational Metaphors

Lecture 3 Organizations as Structures: Understanding an Organization as a Structure

Lecture 4 Organizations as Processes: Understanding an Organization as a Set of Processe

Lecture 5 Features of an Organization: What an Organization Needs

Lecture 6 Why do we Need Organizations? Structure vs Agility

Section 2: Organizational Models

Lecture 7 Edgar Schein’s Two Organizational Cultures

Lecture 8 Henry Mintzberg’s 4 plus 2 Organizational Types

Lecture 9 Charles Handy’s Gods of Management

Lecture 10 Charles Handy’s Shamrock Organization

Lecture 11 Charles Handy’s Federal Organization Model

Lecture 12 Charles Handy’s Triple-I Company

Lecture 13 The Matrix Organization

Lecture 14 Peter Senge’s Learning Organization

Lecture 15 Ad Hocracy

Lecture 16 The Agile Organization

Lecture 17 Brian Robertson’s Holacracy

Lecture 18 Virtual Organizations

Section 3: Power in Organizations

Lecture 19 Organizational Power: What is Power?

Lecture 20 Amitai Etzioni: How Organizations Secure Compliance

Lecture 21 Robin Fincham: Three Levels of Organizational Power

Lecture 22 Power in Organizations: The Power of Governance

Lecture 23 French and Raven: Social Power Bases in Organizations

Lecture 24 Empowerment: The Organization Giving up its Power

Section 4: Organizational Culture

Lecture 25 Introduction to Organizational Culture

Lecture 26 Cultural Web: Johnson & Scholes on Where Culture Originates

Lecture 27 •Edgar Schein’s Three Levels of Organizational Culture

Lecture 28 Quinn & Cameron: Competing Values Model of Organizational Culture

Lecture 29 National Culture within an Organization: Geert Hofstede’s Six Cultural Dimensi

Lecture 30 How we Work: Geert Hofstede’s Six Cross-Organizational Cultural Dimensions

Section 5: Masters of Organizations

Lecture 31 Max Weber: The Father of Organizational Theory

Lecture 32 Chester Barnard: Organizations as Networks of People

Lecture 33 Harold Geneen: Data-driven Charismatic Organization

Lecture 34 Edgar Schein: The Master of Organizational Culture

Lecture 35 Charles Handy: Philosopher of Organizations

Lecture 36 Kim Cameron: Positive Organizational Scholarship

Anyone who works in organizations and needs to know how they work,Anyone studying organizations as part of a further or higher education coure.