Answer to OT
Part A (Choose 4 out of 6 Qns) – 10 marks each
(a) Definition for each keyword.
(b) Concept relating to World Bank.
a. Power
b. Globalisation
c. Bureaucracy
d. Strategic Constituencies
e. Organisational Structures
f. New Public Management
Part B ( Choose 2 out of 4 Qns) – 30 marks each
Q1) ‘The modern perspective provides explanations that afford the analytical frameworks, predictive models, and principles for organising that managers use to diagnose problems and design organisations. Those who adopt the symbolic perspective prefer to study how we construct organisational realities via processes of interpretation, the applications of which lead managers to imagine their main responsibility as the management of symbols and meaning. Taking a postmodern perspective means giving up the structures and social constructions favoured by modern explanation and symbolic understanding, to focus instead on flux and change as modelled by the structures of language in use, which reveal the power relations from which humans should seek liberation’ (Hatch and Cunliffe, 2013: 47). Discuss
Q2) According to symbolic-interpretivist perspectives, ‘institutional logics’ and ‘communities of practice’ impact on how learning occurs and knowledge is disseminated within organisations. Discuss.
Q3) According to Hatch and Cunliffe (2013) ‘no matter the approach you take to organisation-environment relations’ it is important to ‘always ask yourself what assumptions lie behind the categories you are using and whose voice are silenced by this particular construction of reality’ (85). Discuss in relation to two or more perspectives discussed in the course.
Q4) Some public sector organisations are becoming ‘global’ in their orientation and reach (e.g. the UN, World Bank, Chinese State Owned Enterprises, RMIT University). In what ways might these ‘global’ public sector organisations behave in similar ways to global private sector organisations? In what ways
(a) Definition for each keyword.
(b) Concept relating to World Bank.
a. Power
b. Globalisation
c. Bureaucracy
d. Strategic Constituencies
e. Organisational Structures
f. New Public Management
Part B ( Choose 2 out of 4 Qns) – 30 marks each
Q1) ‘The modern perspective provides explanations that afford the analytical frameworks, predictive models, and principles for organising that managers use to diagnose problems and design organisations. Those who adopt the symbolic perspective prefer to study how we construct organisational realities via processes of interpretation, the applications of which lead managers to imagine their main responsibility as the management of symbols and meaning. Taking a postmodern perspective means giving up the structures and social constructions favoured by modern explanation and symbolic understanding, to focus instead on flux and change as modelled by the structures of language in use, which reveal the power relations from which humans should seek liberation’ (Hatch and Cunliffe, 2013: 47). Discuss
Q2) According to symbolic-interpretivist perspectives, ‘institutional logics’ and ‘communities of practice’ impact on how learning occurs and knowledge is disseminated within organisations. Discuss.
Q3) According to Hatch and Cunliffe (2013) ‘no matter the approach you take to organisation-environment relations’ it is important to ‘always ask yourself what assumptions lie behind the categories you are using and whose voice are silenced by this particular construction of reality’ (85). Discuss in relation to two or more perspectives discussed in the course.
Q4) Some public sector organisations are becoming ‘global’ in their orientation and reach (e.g. the UN, World Bank, Chinese State Owned Enterprises, RMIT University). In what ways might these ‘global’ public sector organisations behave in similar ways to global private sector organisations? In what ways