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Week 3
Lecture 3: Organizational change
Theories of organizations and their consequences




Management
Management = a process of control in which the application of reliable
techniques leads to the achievement of indisputable desirable ends.


Assumes
 An objextive rational (science-based) relationship between means and
ends
 That common, shared goals can be set


Criticism





Relationships between means and ends hard to establish
 Usually no concencus about goals

, Management theories: social practices in which means are deployed to
reach ends


Core tasks managers
 Rational profession: construction, selection, evaluation and
implementation of procedures to reach shared organisational goals
 Representative capital: control workforce to reach higher production
 Political actor: mobilise influence in battle over contested ends and
means
 Magic/ institurional actor: muddling through uncertainty




Vision of organizational change
 Rational profession: needed for optimal ‘fit’ between organisation and
environment - through rational strategizing
 Representative capital: needed in capitalist competition arrangements -
‘logic’ of capitalist dependencies
 Political actor: change is the consequence of political battles in and
around the organization
 Magic / institutional actor: change is the ‘ritual’ of modern management
/ often an optical illusion: no diversity but similarity (isomorphism)


Which theory is better?
 Better’ is context-dependent. Which theorie provides the best action
repertoire? • E.g. for management practice Marxist theory usually too
abstract
 Rational profession theory still most common but weak empirical
evidence • Mostly a normative theory: “it should go like this”. And a
hindsight rationalisation: “we did it in a logical manner”
 Remain alert: which theory are you using (implicitly); what would you
do from another paradigm?
 Remain critical towards literature: which paradigm is being used here?

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