Orsc
September 10, 2012
Organizational Science Notes 1
* Organizations (My definition): A group of people who work together to satisfy a common goal
* Organizations (Class definition before lecture): Intangible, Structural, Group/People/Social, clause, Purpose/Goal Dependence, guide, outcome, environment group success, change over time, roles cooperate, culture, processes, stakeholders
* Structure->goals->outcome that happens in a certain environment * Organizational Characteristics * Communications * Goals * Organizational Theories * Organizational Evolution * Change over time * Evolve * How it got started * What was successful * What was not successful * Where the company will go in the future * Example: Borders * How far back would you have to look to see where borders started failing * Research says that 10 or 12 years from the event, is when companies that failed started failing * Borders started failing when amazon started getting big, ex. Ebooks, borders also started using amazon for their books meaning they had no stock. You can buy a $20 book from borders, $2 goes to borders $18 to amazon. You can buy the same book from amazon for $18 only makes sense to buy from amazon * Organizational Orientation * Subjectivists: things only exist as we experience them * Very interpretive * This thing is only a chair because we call it a chair, if someone came from a society without chairs they wouldn’t know what it is * It is an organization because we experience it to be an organization * Objectivist: they view things as an object * Something exists independently of those who experience it * Four legged structure people can sit on with black leather covering is a chair and it exist independently and it will always be a chair * Organization is a quantifiable thing,
Organizational Science Notes 1
* Organizations (My definition): A group of people who work together to satisfy a common goal
* Organizations (Class definition before lecture): Intangible, Structural, Group/People/Social, clause, Purpose/Goal Dependence, guide, outcome, environment group success, change over time, roles cooperate, culture, processes, stakeholders
* Structure->goals->outcome that happens in a certain environment * Organizational Characteristics * Communications * Goals * Organizational Theories * Organizational Evolution * Change over time * Evolve * How it got started * What was successful * What was not successful * Where the company will go in the future * Example: Borders * How far back would you have to look to see where borders started failing * Research says that 10 or 12 years from the event, is when companies that failed started failing * Borders started failing when amazon started getting big, ex. Ebooks, borders also started using amazon for their books meaning they had no stock. You can buy a $20 book from borders, $2 goes to borders $18 to amazon. You can buy the same book from amazon for $18 only makes sense to buy from amazon * Organizational Orientation * Subjectivists: things only exist as we experience them * Very interpretive * This thing is only a chair because we call it a chair, if someone came from a society without chairs they wouldn’t know what it is * It is an organization because we experience it to be an organization * Objectivist: they view things as an object * Something exists independently of those who experience it * Four legged structure people can sit on with black leather covering is a chair and it exist independently and it will always be a chair * Organization is a quantifiable thing,