Outline of organizational theory
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to organizational theory:
Organizational theory – the interdisciplinary study of social organizations. Organizational theory also concerns understanding how groups of individuals behave, which may differ from the behavior of individuals. The theories of organizations include bureaucracy, rationalization (scientific management), and the division of labor.
Each theory provides distinct advantages and disadvantages when applied. The classical perspective emerges from the Industrial Revolution in the private sector and the need for improved public administration in the public sector.
Forms
[edit]- Conglomerate
- Community organization
- Formal organization
- Functional organization
- Informal organization
- International organization
- Membership organization
- Multidimensional organization
- Organic organisation
- Pacifist organization
- Participatory organization
- Social network
- Umbrella organization
Types
[edit]- Advocacy group
- Employers' organization
- Front organization
- Gang
- Hybrid organization
- Military organization
- Meta-organization
- Mutual organization
- Professional services network
- Trade association
- Virtual organization
Concepts
[edit]- Co-determination
- Collective action
- Corporatism
- Decentralization
- Decoupling (organizational studies)
- Deliberation
- Fail fast
- Hawthorne effect
- Human resources
- Intention
- Institutional logic
- Just-in-time learning
- Learning organization
- Maturity model
- Metadesign
- Model of hierarchical complexity
- New Public Management
- Organizational patterns
- Participative decision-making in organizations
- Principal-agent problem
- Social system
- Superior-subordinate communication
- Technology–organization–environment framework
- Voluntary redundancy
I/O psychology
[edit]- Job characteristic theory
- Leader–member exchange theory
- Organisation climate
- Organizational identification[2]
- Requisite organization
- Safety culture
- Trait activation theory
Design
[edit]- Adhocracy
- Cellular organizational structure
- Departmentalization
- Flat organization
- Hierarchical organization
- Technostructure
Development
[edit]- Organizational behavior
- Organizational culture
- Organizational effectiveness
- Organizational engineering
- Organizational identity
- Organizational safety
- Organizational space
Theories
[edit]- Actor network theory
- Critical theory
- Contingency theory
- Imprinting (organizational theory)
- Internalization theory
- Institutional theory
- Modernization theory
- Order theory
- Organizational information theory
- Resource dependence theory
- Social network theory
- Stakeholder theory
- Strategic Choice Theory
- Systems theory
Themes
[edit]- Bureaucracy
- Collective intentionality
- Diversity, equity and inclusion
- Public administration
- Sociocracy
Aspects
[edit]- Organizational analysis
- Organizational assimilation
- Organizational chart
- Organizational ecology[3]
- Organizational ethics
- Organizational performance
- Organisational semiotics
Branches
[edit]- History of organizations
- Industrial organization
- Organizational adaptation
- Organizational communication
- Organizational economics
- Organizational learning
People
[edit]- Chester Barnard
- Dwight Waldo
- Elton Mayo
- Frederick Winslow Taylor
- Herbert A. Simon
- Mary Parker Follett
- Max Weber
- Ulbo de Sitter
Major works
[edit]- Cyert, Richard & March, James (1963). A Behavioral Theory of the Firm
- Simon, Herbert A. (1947). Administrative Behavior
- Weber, Max (1968). Economy and Society
- Waldo, Dwight (1948). The Administrative State
- Senge, Peter (1990). The Fifth Discipline
- Barnard, Chester (1938). The Functions of the Executive
- Lipset, Seymour Martin et al. (1956). Union Democracy
Related lists
[edit]- Outline of academic disciplines
- Outline of industrial organization
- Outline of management
- Outline of sociology
References
[edit]- ^ Pasmore, William; Francis, Carole; Haldeman, Jeffrey; Shani, Abraham (1982). "Sociotechnical Systems: A North American Reflection on Empirical Studies of the Seventies". Human Relations. 35 (12). SAGE Journals: 1179–1204. doi:10.1177/001872678203501207. S2CID 145396363. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ Afshari, Leila; Young, Suzanne; Gibson, Paul; Karimi, Leila (2020). "Organizational commitment: exploring the role of identity". Personnel Review. 49 (3). Emerald Insight: 774–790. doi:10.1108/PR-04-2019-0148. S2CID 210553616. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ Ahrne, Göran (1992). "Outline of an Organizational Theory of Society". Protosociology. 3. Philosophy Documentation Center: 52–60. doi:10.5840/protosociology1992320. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
Further reading
[edit]- Baligh, Helmy H. (2006). Organization Structures: Theory and Design, Analysis and Prescription. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0387258478.
- Perrow, Charles (2000). "An Organizational Analysis of Organizational Theory". Contemporary Sociology. 29 (3): 469–476. doi:10.2307/2653934. JSTOR 2653934.
- Achterberg, Jan; Vriens, Dirk (2010). Organizations: Social Systems Conducting Experiments. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-642-14316-8.
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