Course Understanding Organisation: Theory and practice :

Each question will ask you to focus on a different theory or organizational issue, also requiring you to present concrete applications/examples. For instance, they might ask you to use a particular theoretical lens to concisely discuss one organization that you certainly know well, or to come up with a good example of a particular organizational issue. The following theories can be the object of the exam:

scientific management

bureaucracy theory;

contingency theory

; design thinking / open collaboration;

power/organization politics;

organizational culture;

institutional theory;

critical management/stakeholder/ethic theories

sensemaking; paradox theory;

practice theory/actor-network theory

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Answers length must to be no less than 500 word and no more than 1000 words per answer

Question: Define what organizational environment is by comparing and contrasting at least two organizational theories providing different views of what such an environment is