Modern Management

IBP, University of Warsaw

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Aims

To learn about some key concepts of management and organization for practical use
To apply organizational imagination in the exploration of contemporary organizations
To problematize social practices and actively look for constructive solutions to occurring problems
To think laterally about organizing and organizations

Key concepts

Organizations, culture, people.

Type of classes

Lectures and workshops.

Programme

26.11.

Cultural Change and Identity

Workshop: The identity of IKEA - a diagnosis

3.12.

Fashions in Management

Workshop: A fashionable organizational hero - a role analysis.

Readings

Kostera, M. (2007) Organizational ethnography: Methods and inspirations . Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Additional recommended readings

Gabriel, Yiannis, Stephen Fineman i David Sims (1992/2000) Organizing & organizations: An introduction. London - Thousand Oaks - New Delhi : Sage.
Kunda, Gideon (1992) Engineering culture: Control and commitment in a high-tech corporation. Philadelphia : Temple University Press.
Mangham, Iain L. i Michael A. Overington (1987) Organizations as theatre: A social psychology of dramatic appearances. Chichester - New York - Brisbane - Toronto - Singapore : John Wiley.
Morgan, Gareth i Gibson Burrell Burrell (1979) Sociological paradigms and organizational analysis. London : Heinemann.
Weick, Karl E. 1969/1979 The social psychology of organizing. Reading: Addison - Wesley.

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