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Fall 2007 Section OMA Class Schedule
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(Many assignments can be completed online. Regular contact should be maintained with instructor.) |
| Part One: Foundations of Public Organization Theory |
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| October 29 |
Unit 1: The Study of Organizational Behavior: An Overview |
| No state can exist . . . in the absence of those offices which are absolutely indispensable; no properly governed state can exist in the absence of those which ensure good organization and order . . . Aristotle |
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Argyle, Nolan J. 2002. The Emergence of the American Administrative State: The Intellectual Origins. In Handbook of bureaucracy 2nd ed. ed Ali Farazmand New York: Marcel Dekker. (Online). |
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Denhardt, Chapters 1 & 2. |
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Asimov (read the novella early, so you can begin to apply the course material to it) |
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Ott, Introduction. |
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| October 31 |
Unit 2: Management and "Science": Foundations of American Organization Theory
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed
somewhere, that man cannot be great. If it be said that continual success is proof that a
man wisely knows his powers, it is only to be added that, in that case, he knows them to
be small. Herman Melville |
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Denhardt, Chapter 3 |
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Long, Norton. 1949. “Power and Administration.” Public Administration
Review, 9 (Autumn): 257-264. |
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Week 2: November 5
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Unit 3: The Science of Human Behavior & the Rational Organization
. . . the greatest gains in quality of government come from thinking through more
carefully what we want to do before we do it. Grover Starling |
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Denhardt, Chapter 4. |
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Ott, Chapter 2. |
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Part Two: From Organizational Theory to Organizational Behavior |
| November 7 Paige, Denys, Shelley, Christian |
Unit 4: The Humanist Approach to Organizational Theory
It is certain civil government in general is a very admirable result of providence, and an
incomparable benefit to mankind, yet must needs be acknowledged to be the effect of
human free-compacts and not of divine institution; it is the produce of man's reason. John Wise, A Vindication of the Government of
New England Churches (1717) |
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Denhardt, Chapter 5. |
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Ott, Chapter 1. |
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Fairholm, Mathew R. 2004. Different Perspectives on the Practice of Leadership.
Public Administration Review, 64. pp. 577-590. |
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| Week 3: November 12 |
For our November 12 class we will have an online meeting in which Shilo Smith, Research Librarian, will provide a Library Instruction and Research Presentation using Live Classroom through WebCT. |
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November 14
Kay, Michael, Robin R.
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Unit 5: Organizational Dynamics: The Interplay of Groups and Structure
Men willingly believe what they want to. Julius Caesar |
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Ott, Chapter 3. |
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Justin, Margaret, Crystal, Robin W.
(Note: Nov. 19th)
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Unit 6: Organizational Politics: Internal and External
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain
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Ott, Chapters 4 & 5. |
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Part Three: Critiquing the Fields of Organization Theory and Behavior |
Week 4: November 19
Jennifer, Phillip, Jeff, Jeremy
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Unit 7: Rational Action and Organizational Change
There is no point at which having arrived we can remain. Richard L. Evans |
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Denhardt, Chapters 6, 7, 8. |
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Ott, Chapter 6. |
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| Thanksgiving Holidays November 21-23, 2007. |
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| November 26 |
Unit 8: Critiquing Organizational Behavior: Postmodernism & Caves |
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Denhardt, Chapter 8, Appendix: The Administrative Journal |
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Asimov, complete novella |
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| Week 5: November 28 - December 3 |
Unit 9: Course Wrap-up/Group Presentations |