Lecture 3 discusses the interplay between organisation and environment. Researchers use different metaphors and frameworks to explain the relationship between them. First Morgan describes the organisations as machine, organism, culture, brain, and psychic prison. Bolman and Deal use 4 frames to observe the organisation from structural, human resource, political and symbolic perspectives. Astley and Van de Ven use a two-by-two framework to locate different organisation theories from macro-micro level axis and deterministic-voluntaristic axis.

Before any lecture either open or save to your computer the assigned PowerPoint presentations.

Assignment before the lecture: None.

Open or save the PowerPoint slides related to this lecture EDLS011_S2_L3.pdf​

Listen to the lecture, and afterwards do the assignment given below.

Assignment after the lecture:

Write your personal learning experiences into your personal Reflective report The Reflective report for Session 2 will be submitted in one file after Lecture 4.

Read the following article.

Pugh. 2006.The Organization in Its Environment
http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/15499_Chapter_2.pdf

Suggested further reading; This is one of the classics of organization theory.
Lorence & Lorch. 1967. Orgganization and Environment.
http://glennschool.osu.edu/faculty/brown/home/Org%20Theory/Readings/Organization%20and%20Environment.pdf