This course is concerned with organizations that exist in uncertainty, changing environments, and continually confronting new challenges. Managers must find some solution to these challenges and problems if organizations are to survive, prosper, and perform effectively. The topics covered in this course, include: The existence of organizations and the purpose they serve; The relationship between organizational theory and organizational design and changes; The difference between organizational culture and structure and how managers can utilize the principles of organizational theory to design and change their organizations to increase organizational effectiveness. The principles in which managers assess and measure organizational effectiveness are contingency factors that influence the design of organizations.
