MPA 8002
Organization Theory

1. To define and to illustrate the history of complex organizations through a variety of frames, metaphors, and theories of organization.
2. To examine and to critique a variety frames, metaphors, and theories of complex organizations.
3. To identify how antecedents and theories of practice evidence themselves in management and leadership practice episodes.
4. To develop the cognitive complexity that will enable students to utilize multiple perspectives to isolate the organizational issue at the heart of the problems emerging in organizational functioning.
5. To explore organizational, administrative, managerial, leadership strategies that will engage managers, leaders, and followers in organizational learning.
6. To formulate a reasonable organizational change plan that bridges organizational theory with the organizational reality.
7. To locate human responsibility, and thus, ethical behavior, within human organizations.