Weekly Summary
Week 1.
This week’s
tutorial and lecture were quite informative considering it was only the first
one. I really enjoyed the tutorial and the engagement tutor-student and
student-student. The tutor created a fun class culture, which is the best way
to inspire learning.
This
introduction lecture and tutorial brought a broader perspective of what an
organisation is. Being the manager of a business and also having been exposed
to a lot of information about the organization makes it a lot easier for me to
understand the lecture and the tutorial. It is interesting to learn about
organizational and individual goals, its structure, the embedding of the
organization in environment.
There are many
types of organizations that did not exist in the past and now they were not
considered in the past. Some organizations belong to the government, some are
social, non-profit, virtual etc. We also learned about the organizations and
the global warming and the effect that organizations can/have to reduce or
eliminate their contribution. Factors
effecting organizational communication are: globalization, technology, climate
change, changing demographics, and global security issues.
Principles of
management and organizational structure are also a very interesting topic, but
I found the most interesting the Fayol’s Theory of classical management; which
is basically how most organizations are run in the country. Command – managers
set tasks. Coordination – activities harmonized into single whole. Control
–comparison between goals and activities.
Webber’s Theory of Bureaucracy is quite interesting too. This form of leading
is organizational and non-individual and as we discussed in class, bureaucracy
derives from the French word bureau, which means desk.
Dictionary definitions for bureaucracy:
· A system of carrying on the business of government
by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in
contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an
associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this
system.
Government officials, collectively.
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