BA 435 | Course Introduction and Application Information - Department of Business Administration

Course Name

Organization Theories

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
BA 435	Fall/Spring	3	0	3	6

Prerequisites	None
Course Language	English
Course Type	Elective
Course Level	First Cycle
Mode of Delivery	Blended
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course	Discussion Group Work Problem Solving Case Study Q&A Critical feedback Lecture / Presentation
National Occupation Classification	-
Course Coordinator	Prof. Dr. Şükrü Özen
Course Lecturer(s)	Prof. Dr. Şükrü Özen
Assistant(s)	Araş. Gör. Zeynep Göksu Beşkaya

Course Objectives	The course aims at providing students with an opportunity of developing their knowledge and analytical skills to explain and understand business organizations and their management from a macro organizational perspective.
Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; Describe organization theories representing different organizational paradigms. Compare organization theories with respect to their assumptions, arguments and focuses. Discuss the interactions between various organizational dimensions with an analytical perspective. Use organization theories in an integrative manner to explain organizational and managerial issues at the national and global level. Enhance their critical attitudes towards extant knowledge on, and practices of, organizations in terms of their impacts on individuals, society and natural environment as a whole.
Course Description	The course deals with the organization theories that attempt to explain the behaviors of organizations. It discusses structural contingency, resource dependence, transaction and agency cost, population ecology, institutionalism, and organizational network theories. It also discusses interpretativist, critical and postmodern organizational perspectives. It attempts to compare and/or integrate these theories along the dimensions of organizational structure, strategy, technology, culture, and environment.
Related Sustainable Development Goals

Course Category	Core Courses
	Major Area Courses	X
	Supportive Courses
	Media and Management Skills Courses
	Transferable Skill Courses

Week	Subjects	Related Preparation
1	Introduction to Organization and Organization Theory	Daft, Murphy & Willmott (2020) Chapter 1: What are Organizations? and Chapter 2: Perspectives on Organizations.
2	Big Picture for Managers	Daft, Murphy & Willmott (2020) Chapter 3: Strategy, Organization Design, and Effectiveness
3	Organization Structure Research Project Assignment: Analyze the organization structure of one of the big holdings in Turkey with respect to its departmentalization criteria, and discuss whether this is a proper criterion, regarding the suggestions provided in the textbook.	Daft, Murphy & Willmott (2020) Chapter 4: Fundamentals of Organization Structure Research Project Presentation
4	The External Environment and Resource Dependence Research Project Assignment: Choose a company from Izmir and analyze which strategies that company uses to minimize its dependences and compare them to the strategies mentioned in the left part of Exhibit 5.10 in your textbook	Daft, Murphy & Willmott (2020) Chapter 5: The External Environment Research Project Presentation
5	Interorganizational Relationships: Population Ecology, Network and Institutional Theories Research Project Assignment: Analyze the evolution of an organizational population from the population ecology perspective. How have the organizational forms evolved in this industry? Why have some forms, if any, failed, and some others survive?	Daft, Murphy & Willmott (2020) Chapter 6: Interorganizational Relationships Research Project Presentation
6	Global Environment and Internationalization Research Project Assignment: Choose an internationalized company headquartered in Izmir and analyze how its internationalization is reflected in its organizational structure, and strategy. Compare them with the structures and strategies of international firms described in your textbook.	Daft, Murphy & Willmott (2020) Chapter 7: Designing Organizations for the International Environment Research Project Presentation
7	Technology and Organization Design Research Project Assignment: Choose a service organization (e.g., bank, hospital, university), and analyze how its service technology influences its structural dimensions such as formalization, specialization, centralization etc., and compare your findings to the implications of service technology mentioned in your textbook.	Daft, Murphy & Willmott (2020) Chapter 8: Manufacturing and Service Technologies Research Project Presentation
8	Midterm
9	Information Technology and Control: Transaction Cost Theory Research Project Assignment: Choose a company which heavily uses information technologies, and analyze to what extent the company uses IT for a tool for improving its decision-making process or a tool for controlling its employees.	Daft, Murphy & Willmott (2020) Chapter 9: Information Technology and Control Research Project Presentation
10	Organization Life Cycle Research Project Assignment: Choose a family firm that has been operating for many years and analyze how they have managed to survive internal crises from generation to generation.	Daft, Murphy & Willmott (2020) Chapter 10: Organization Size, Life Cycle and Decline Research Project Presentation
11	Organizational Culture, Business Ethics, and Social Responsibility Research Project Assignment: Choose an organization and analyze its culture in terms of its values, symbols, stories etc., and discuss which type of organizational culture mentioned in your textbook it reflects mostly.	Daft, Murphy & Willmott (2020) Chapter 11: Organizational Culture and Ethical Values Research Project Presentation
12	Innovation and Change Processes Research Project Assignment: Choose an innovative product and analyze the organizational innovation process through which it was created and compare this process to those mentioned in your textbook.	Daft, Murphy & Willmott (2020) Chapter 12: Innovation and Change Research Project Presentation
13	Decision-Making Processes Research Project Assignment: Choose a company and analyze how a strategic decision (for example, investing in a new industry or merging with another company) was made and compare it to the decision-making approaches mentioned in our textbook.	Daft, Murphy & Willmott (2020) Chapter 13: Decision-Making Processes Research Project Presentation
14	Conflict, Power and Politics Research Project Assignment: Choose an organization and analyze the extent to which departments conflict with each other, and what the main sources of these conflict, how they solve these conflicts, and compare them to the sources and conflict management techniques mentioned in your textbook.	Daft, Murphy & Willmott (2020) Chapter 14: Conflict, Power and Politics Research Project Presentation
15	Semester Review
16	Final Exam

Course Notes/Textbooks

Richard Daft, Jonathan Murphy, and Hugh Willmott. 2020. Organization Theory and Design: An International Edition. 4^th Edition. Cengage Learning: Hampshire. ISBN: 978-1-4737-6590-0

Suggested Readings/Materials

McAuley, John, Duberley, Joanne, and Johnson, Phil. 2014. Organization Theory. Challenges and Perspectives. Essex: Pearson.( ISBN: 978-0-273-72443-8)

W. R. Scott and G. F. Davis. 2016. Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open Systems. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.( ISBN: 978-0-131-95893-7)

Semester Activities	Number	Weigthing
Participation
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury	1	10
Project	1	20
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams	-	-
Midterm	1	30
Final Exam	1	40
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade	3	60
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade	1	40
Total

Semester Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16	3	48
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)	16		0
Study Hours Out of Class	14	3	42
Field Work			0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques			0
Portfolio			0
Homework / Assignments	1	10	10
Presentation / Jury	1	20	20
Project			0
Seminar / Workshop			0
Oral Exam	-	-	0
Midterms	1	25	25
Final Exam	1	35	35
		Total	180

#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	* Contribution Level
#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	To be able to solve problems with an analytical and holistic viewpoint in the field of business administration.	-	-	X	-	-
2	To be able to present the findings and solutions to the business problems in written and oral formats.	-	X	-	-	-
3	To be able to interpret the application of business and economic concepts, and philosophies at the national and international levels.	-	-	X	-	-
4	To be able to use innovative and creative approach for real-life business situations.	-	-	-	-	-
5	To be able to demonstrate leadership skills in different business situations.	-	-	-	-	-
6	To be able to interpret the reflections of new technologies and softwares to business dynamics.	-	-	-	-	-
7	To be able to integrate knowledge gained in the five areas of business administration (marketing, production, management, accounting, and finance) through a strategic perspective.	-	-	-	-	-
8	To be able to act in accordance with the scientific and ethical values in studies related to business administration.	-	-	X	-	-
9	To be able to work efficiently and effectively as a team member.	-	-	-	-	-
10	To be able to have an ethical perspective and social responsiveness when making and evaluating business decisions.	-	X	-	-	-
11	To be able to collect data in the area of business administration and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1).	-	-	-	-	-
12	To be able to speak a second foreign language at a medium level of fluency efficiently.	-	-	-	-	-
13	To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise.	-	-	-	-	-