Brief overview of SI 262.
These notes consist of the necessary information for the semester test and exam, as set out by D.Blaauw in 2019. The exam outline was the same as the one for the semester test (as confirmed in the exam prep lecture) so the last 2 topics aren't delved into.
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Socio-Informatics
262
Brief Summary of Images of Organization
, Contents
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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