Review of course
Developing your revision: the authors, their ideas and the relevance.
The following chart will be a good way of developing strong associations between 25 authors that you have encountered on the course, their theories and ideas, and the world around us in organisations and their environment. Don’t expect to remember all of them for the exam, but pick out the ones you find most important. They are not in any sense a priority list, and do add more as you come across them. One example is already filled in!
Name of Author/s The Core Ideas How they connect to the Case Studies in Block 1 and 3 How they connect to any situations/ examples in your own work experience
Henri Fayol
Henry Mintzberg Charles Handy Tom Burns G.Pfeffer and G.Salancik Geert Hofstede Tom Peters Rosa Beth Kanter H. Simon Edgar Schein W.Powell Chris Argyris Peter Senge Michael Porter The Five Forces Tanzania’s Textile Industry
Gareth Morgan Paul Drucker
Block and Week Number People Theories/concepts/models
Block 1 Week1 - Introduction • Kurt Lewin • Mentioned within course text – activity 1.5
Block 1 Week 2 – Exploring different ways of thinking • Walter Powell • Markets, Hierarchies & Networks – activity 2.8
Block 1 Week 3 – Information in business organisations • Pink, 2005
• Delgado, 2006
• Weber
• Ackoff, 2006
• Pfeffer & Salancik – Writer on organizations pp 71-75
• Bessant & white, 2006 • Mentioned within course text – activity 3.1
• The Knowledge Pyramid – activity 3.2
• Bureaucracy - Mentioned within course text – activity 3.2
• System thinker – Mentioned within course text – activity 3.3
• Organisational Interdependency
• Mentioned within course text
Block 2 Week 5 – Structure 1 • Beinhocker, 2006 – Supplementary readings pp 5-6
• Hatch & Cunliffe – Supplementary readings pp 7-14
• Roper & Jackson, 2001 – Supplementary readings pp 15-22
• Goold & Campbell, 2002 –
The following chart will be a good way of developing strong associations between 25 authors that you have encountered on the course, their theories and ideas, and the world around us in organisations and their environment. Don’t expect to remember all of them for the exam, but pick out the ones you find most important. They are not in any sense a priority list, and do add more as you come across them. One example is already filled in!
Name of Author/s The Core Ideas How they connect to the Case Studies in Block 1 and 3 How they connect to any situations/ examples in your own work experience
Henri Fayol
Henry Mintzberg Charles Handy Tom Burns G.Pfeffer and G.Salancik Geert Hofstede Tom Peters Rosa Beth Kanter H. Simon Edgar Schein W.Powell Chris Argyris Peter Senge Michael Porter The Five Forces Tanzania’s Textile Industry
Gareth Morgan Paul Drucker
Block and Week Number People Theories/concepts/models
Block 1 Week1 - Introduction • Kurt Lewin • Mentioned within course text – activity 1.5
Block 1 Week 2 – Exploring different ways of thinking • Walter Powell • Markets, Hierarchies & Networks – activity 2.8
Block 1 Week 3 – Information in business organisations • Pink, 2005
• Delgado, 2006
• Weber
• Ackoff, 2006
• Pfeffer & Salancik – Writer on organizations pp 71-75
• Bessant & white, 2006 • Mentioned within course text – activity 3.1
• The Knowledge Pyramid – activity 3.2
• Bureaucracy - Mentioned within course text – activity 3.2
• System thinker – Mentioned within course text – activity 3.3
• Organisational Interdependency
• Mentioned within course text
Block 2 Week 5 – Structure 1 • Beinhocker, 2006 – Supplementary readings pp 5-6
• Hatch & Cunliffe – Supplementary readings pp 7-14
• Roper & Jackson, 2001 – Supplementary readings pp 15-22
• Goold & Campbell, 2002 –