Weick on Organizations as Nouns

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Team Memphis

Over time, how an organization is defined has changed.  Traditionally, there have been common features of organizations that deal with their structure.  Scott and Davis consider organizations to be “social structures created by individuals to support the collaborative pursuit of specified goals.”  All organizations must define objectives, induce participants to contribute services, control and coordinate [...]

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Will the law of limited variety stand the test of time and changing environments?

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Brooke

Organizations are reflective of the external environments that they exist in as they are greatly influenced by these settings.  In particular, they “reflect the complexity of their environments.  So, for example, organizations in more complex environments map the complexity of the environment into their own structures” (Scott and Davis, 370).  The more numerous the sources [...]

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How the US-made crisis affected the Global Economy

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Tania

In my last post I talked about greed and its involvement in the financial crisis. I want to switch gears and talk about globalization and the emerging challenges that the world’s economy faces in my final paper. In the United States, we have yet to see evidence of a sustained recovery in the housing market. [...]

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Enron on Broadway: Maybe Lay, Skilling, and The Gang Will Have More Success on Stage…

Posted on March 31, 2010 by ej13

Apparently not much has changed since Enron’s bankruptcy and fraud ridden collapse in 2002.  It’s eight years later and Enron is still spending loads of money on new ventures of uncertain profitability.  However, this time the organization will actually have to earn its revenues by pleasing consumers on Broadway.

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Administrative Behavior in Enron

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Team Memphis

I thought it would be interesting to look at how the administrative system of Enron behaved throughout the life of the company.  There were changes in upper level management throughout the business life of Enron and not everyone acted the same as his/her predecessor.  Simon’s Theory of Administrative Behavior (Scott and Davis, 53) talks about [...]

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The Importance of Conflict

Posted on February 9, 2010 by derek

Organizations and society are both significantly influenced by the conflicts that take place within their respective systems. No system is spared from conflict between individuals or collective groups of people. As Davis and Scott state ” conflict and change are a part of organizational life no less than consensus and stability.”(82) As a result, to [...]

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My Nose, Other People’s Business

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Team Memphis

The post that I chose to write about, My Nose, Other People’s Business, comes from the perspective of a nosy person.  This post talks about how the writer enjoys talking to people about their business and how they are managing it and whatnot.  This particular person enjoys asking a lot of questions pertaining to how [...]

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