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MAN516H Management Theory Development V
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Credit Points: 15
 
Description:
The nature of theory; the meaning and purpose of theory and its role in organisational analysis. An overview of modernist and postmodernist managerial, sociological and research methodologies reflecting the change and debates in organisational studies. This unit promotes questioning the philosophical, theoretical and methodological fundamentals of management and organisation orthodoxy which concentrates on the identification of causal relationships. The course will focus on the many aspects of organisational diversity and complex organistional realities which serve to make the manger's task more difficult in an information/knowledge age. Current initiatives in organisationl theory suggest tht the study or organisations is moving away from the ideas of certainty and consensus to developing an understanding of complexity and uncertainty.

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Last Updated - Higher Education: 30/04/2009 VET: 30/04/2009