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: You have been working as a certified public accountant at an accounting firm, and you know that you are in line for a promotion. It is 11 pm on a Friday night and you receive a text from your boss at work asking to check your email because there is a request from a client that needs immediate attention, therefore you decide to go back to the office. Describe the relations of power that are at play in this situation