• Introduction
• 47 min
  1. Introducing the field of managing organizations

  • Prof. Stewart Clegg
• Managing people
• 55 min
  2. An introduction to managing people in organizations

  • Dr. Tyrone Pitsis
• 46 min
  3. Managing teams and groups

  • Prof. Michael West
• 57 min
  4. Leading extraordinarily positive performance

  • Dr. Kim Cameron
• 28 min
  5. Leading in organizations

  • Prof. Ray Gordon
• 51 min
  6. Understanding coaching

  • Dr. Anthony Grant
• 45 min
  7. The self-determination theory perspective on motivation in organizations

  • Prof. Edward L Deci
• 40 min
  8. The organization of human resource strategies

  • Prof. Miguel Martínez Lucio
• Managing key practices
• 48 min
  9. Managing cultures

  • Prof. Stephen Linstead
• 31 min
  10. Organizational politics

  • Prof. Richard Badham
• 41 min
  11. Managing organizational decision making

  • Prof. Susan Miller
• 32 min
  12. Improvising improvisational change

  • Prof. Miguel Pinha e Cunha
  • Dr. Joao Vieira da Cunha
• 63 min
  13. Organization design: its evolution within a changing context

  • Prof. John Child
• Managing representationally
• 32 min
  14. Managing messages

  • Prof. James R. Barker
• 58 min
  15. Expressing organizations through corporate branding

  • Prof. Majken Schultz
• 38 min
  16. What does knowledge work do?

  • Dr. Tim Ray
• 34 min
  17. Mastering business action: implications for management learning in business schools

  • Prof. Elena Antonacopoulou
• Managing socially responsibly
• 44 min
  18. Managing sustainably

  • Prof. Suzanne Benn
• 48 min
  19. Business ethics

  • Prof. René ten Bos
• 25 min
  20. Transnational corporations and climate change: towards a global governance framework

  • Prof. Bobby Banerjee

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Navigable Slide Index

1. Introduction
2. A surprising statistic
3. An illustrative case
4. Outline of the talk
5. What is a decision?
6. Types of decision - operational
7. Types of decision - strategic
8. Rational actor model
9. Bounded rationality
10. Incrementalism (1)
11. Incrementalism (2)
12. Incrementalism - problems
13. Power and decision-making
14. Overt and covert power
15. Non decisions
16. Garbage can model: organized anarchies
17. Garbage can model: four streams
18. Garbage can model
19. The Bradford Studies
20. Why do processes differ?
21. The matter for decision matters most
22. Implementation: getting decisions to work
23. Successfully managing implementation
24. Planning with experience
25. Learning by doing
26. Both together are best
27. Implications: increasing the chances of success
28. Western research in a global context
29. References and further reading

Topics Covered

• What is a decision?
• Types of decision
• Ways of making decisions
• Rationality in decision-making
• Incrementalism: a step by step approach
• The intriguing world of the 'garbage can'
• Power and 'non decisions'
• Explaining why decision processes differ
• Getting decisions implemented successfully

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Series:

• Managing Organizations

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on July 4, 2010