Sociology of organisations 2102-2ZM9SOOR

1. Introductory classes.
The Word of organisations. Sociology of organisation and other areas of scientific analysis of organization. Sociology of organization in Poland. Methods of sociology of organisation. Functions of sociology of organisation. Sociology of organisation and the analysis of political phenomena. The organisational dimension of politics. The metaphor of politics as a process of organising the social life. The political dimension of organisation.
2. Historical views on organisation and management.
Sociological and praxeological view on organisation. Characteristics of modern organisations and tendencies in their evolution. Schools and tendencies in research in the area of organisations.
3. Modern tendencies of research in sociology of organisations.
Metaphors of organisation. Metaphors of organisation according to G. Morgan. A. Toffler's interpretation of metaphors of organisation. Other conceptions of metaphors of organisation. The metaphor method in the research on organization. Postmodernism in the research on organization and management.
4. The notion of organization. Organisation and its surroundings. Objectives and functions of organization.
Sociological definitions and models of organizations. Organisation as a social group vs. organization as a social system. Models of the surroundings of an organisation. Internal surroundings, near and further surroundings, the idea of electorate of an organisation, the interorganisational net, autopoiesis. Situational theory, the theory of dependence on resources, ecology of population, institutional theory, theory of establishment and social construction of reality. Relationship between organisation and the environment. Criteria of organizational efficacy, Bielski's multicriteria model. Typologies of organizations as systems. Functions vs. objectives and tasks. Hierarchy of objectives and a bundle of objectives, aims and means, aims and conditions. Teleological interpretations of organisation and a model of organisation's survival. Organisation's life cycle.
5. Politics of organisation. Organisational strategies.
Politics of organisation and its models. Strategic analysis of SWOT, critical problems, process analysis, analysis of root competences and strategic resources, strategic segmentation and portfolio analysis, PEST analysis, benchmarking. Main conceptions of organizational strategies and the alternative view on strategy. Strategic management. Types of organizational strategies and their typologies. Introducing strategies. Strategy and technology of organisation. Technologies of organisation.
6. Structure of organisation.
The notion of structure. Explicit, implicit and deeply implicit structures. Real and planned structure. Social structure of organisation. Parameters of social structure of an organisation. A schema of analysis of structures. Formalisation and institutionalisation of structures. Factors defining structure. Structure and integration and disintegration of an organisation. Typologies of organisational structures: hierarchically and hierarchically oriented structures . H. Mintzberg's composite model of structure. Planning and change of organisational structures. Organisation's physical structure: definitions, behavioural and symbolic approach, physical structure and the emergence of organisation's identity.
7. Organisation's informal order. Pathologies of organisations, ethics and social responsibility of organisations.
8. Organisational culture.
9. Communication and decision in organisations.
10. Power and leadership in organisation.
11. Conflict and contradiction in organisation.