Problem
Organizations and Organizational Effectiveness.
• Explain why organizations exist and the purposes they serve.
• Describe the relationship between organizational theory and organizational design and change and differentiate between organizational structure and culture.
• Understand how managers can utilize the principles of organizational theory to design and change their organizations to increase organizational effectiveness.
• Identify the three principal ways in which managers assess and measure organizational effectiveness. Appreciate the way in which several contingency factors influence the design of organizations.
Reference
• P. M. Blau, Exchange and Power in Social Life (New York: Wiley, 1964); P. M. Blau and W. R. Scott, Formal Organizations (San Francisco: Chandler, 1962).
• C. I. Barnard, The Functions of the Executive (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1948); A. Etzioni, Modern Organizations (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1964).