Unc Puba 710 Syllabus
Master of Public Administration Program School of Government University of North Carolina PUBA 710: ORGANIZATION THEORY Lead Professor: Willow Jacobson, Ph.D. COURSE SYLLABUS
Course Description Managers are confronted with new challenges brought about by the global economy, pressures to improve government performance, demands to produce more with less. Organizations are downsizing, becoming less hierarchical and more decentralized. Yet, how are practitioners to make sense of all of the “popular” management books? How can they rise to the challenge of managing the tumultuous future? How can they understand the transformations of the organizations within which they operate?
This course is designed to provide students an opportunity to wrestle with these questions by acquainting them with the basic themes, concepts, and competencies of the field of organizational theory and management. Through this course, students will come to see that organizations operate as systems. Within this overarching orientation there are many diverse strategies for understanding organizations and management; the materials we will read are drawn from a range of
Course Description Managers are confronted with new challenges brought about by the global economy, pressures to improve government performance, demands to produce more with less. Organizations are downsizing, becoming less hierarchical and more decentralized. Yet, how are practitioners to make sense of all of the “popular” management books? How can they rise to the challenge of managing the tumultuous future? How can they understand the transformations of the organizations within which they operate?
This course is designed to provide students an opportunity to wrestle with these questions by acquainting them with the basic themes, concepts, and competencies of the field of organizational theory and management. Through this course, students will come to see that organizations operate as systems. Within this overarching orientation there are many diverse strategies for understanding organizations and management; the materials we will read are drawn from a range of