Managing People and Organisations (21129) Subject Notes

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Full semester of subject notes. Topics: MANAGING AND ORGANISATIONS - Contemporary managing and organisations in a changing world - Digital organisation - Managing as sensemaking - Managerial rationality MANAGING ORGANISATIONAL DESIGN - Contingency theory - What designs matter? MANAGING PRINCIPLES - Foundations of management principles - Industrial management principles - Max weber and principles of bureaucracy - Redefining bureaucracy - Critical perspectives on principles of management MANAGING INDIVIDUALS - Psychology at work - Perception at work - Values: Managing me, myself and I - Personality - Positive psychology MANAGING TEAMS AND GROUPS - Team and group dynamics - Groups properties and processes - Developing teams - Team conflict and the darker side of teams - Toxic handling in teams - Defining leadership - The evolution of leadership theory - Leaders and coaches and motivators - Motivation - Positive psychology of leadership MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES - HR origins - HRM in practice - HRM in context - Institutional shaping of HRM - The industrial relations climate MANAGING CULTURES - Organisational culture - Culture in practice - The culture of culture - Culture: Integrated, differentiated and fragmented - Measuring national cultures MANAGING CONFLICT - What is organisational conflict? - Managing conflict MANAGING POWER, POLITICS AND DECISION-MAKING IN ORGANISATIONS - Organisation power and politics - Why do organisations have politics? - Surveillance and resistance as organisational politics - Empowerment, experiments, emancipation, ethics MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS - Communication - Level of communication - Organisational communication and organisational design - Polyphonic communication MANAGING KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING - Knowledge management - Driving forces behind knowledge and learning - Organisational learning as a paradox MANAGING INNOVATION AND CHANGE - Innovation as a process - Innovation as an open process - Innovation as an outcome: Dynamics of progression - Managing change and innovation - Organising for innovation MANAGING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ETHICALLY - Corporate social responsibility - Going green - Corporate codes of ethics - The future MANAGING GLOBALISATION - Defining globalisation - Key strategic issues - Competitive advantage - Who and what are the globalisers? - Global managers and global jobs - Global rights - Global winners and losers - Global sustainability