In Lecture 1, Professor Alava reviews the development of organisation theory from rational theories to extreme theories. According to the extreme theories, people in the organisation only have bounded rationality. The organisation goal maybe vague. The leadership and management can be unclear. Students had a discussion about are schools anarchistic. The conclusion was there can be some risks if we do not clarify the goals and leadership.

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

Assignment before the lecture: It would be useful to reread the suggested articles in Lecture 3 in Session 1 at this point.

No slides related to this lecture.

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

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.

Assignment after the lecture: None.