Brief overview of SI 262.
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images of organizations
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Socio-Informatics
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Brief Summary of Images of Organization
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Organizations as Machines (Ch. 2)....................................................................................................................................2
Classic Management Theory (19)..................................................................................................................................2
Scientific Management Theory (23)..............................................................................................................................2
Organizations as Organisms (Ch. 3)..................................................................................................................................3
Hierarchy of Needs (37)................................................................................................................................................3
Organizations as Brains (Ch. 4).........................................................................................................................................4
Images of the Brain (72)................................................................................................................................................4
Just in Time Systems (JITs, 80)......................................................................................................................................4
Cybernetics (81-83).......................................................................................................................................................4
Single vs double loop learning (85)...............................................................................................................................5
Holographic Design (99-112)........................................................................................................................................6
Organizations as Cultures (Ch. 5)......................................................................................................................................6
Basic Business Principles (119)......................................................................................................................................6
Organizations and modes of political rule (153)...........................................................................................................6
Sources of Power in Organizations (167-194)...............................................................................................................7
Conflict management (200-201)...................................................................................................................................7
Managing Pluralistic Organizations (194-196)..............................................................................................................7
Organizations as Psychic Prisons (ch7)..............................................................................................................................8
Freudian Defence Mechanisms (215)...........................................................................................................................8
Organizations as Flux and Change (ch8. 8)........................................................................................................................9
Taoists/Contradiction and crisis (273-274)...................................................................................................................9
Autopoiesis (243)..........................................................................................................................................................9
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