Organizations and Environments

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	SUBTOPICS
I. Organizations and Organization Theory
1	Organizations: Definitions, Evolution, and Current Developments	Orientation: Introductions, Expectations, Course Structure, Assignments Organizations: Definitions, Evolution, and Current Developments
2	Organization Theory: Historical, Conceptual and Occupational Trends
3	Debating Contemporary Organization Theory	Theory and Theorizing Pluralism and its Discontents
II. Main Contemporary Conceptual Frameworks
4	Structural Contingency and Resource Dependence Theories	Structural Contingency Theory Resource Dependence Theory
5	Social Network Analysis
6	New Institutionalism
7	Organizational Ecology
III. Technology and Professions
8	Technology in the Workplace
9	Professional Work
IV. Students’ Projects
10	Class Presentation and Discussion of Students’ Term-Papers
11	Class Presentation and Discussion of Students’ Term-Papers (cont.)