Managing Organizational Dynamics (Leadership)

Area of acceptance:  Area within which the subordinate is willing to accept the decisions by the supervisor.

Boundary spanning:  Representing an organization to outside groups and organizations.

Bounded rationality:  Seeking the best possible solution, but not necessarily the most rational from a purely economic standpoint.

Organization development:  Process-oriented approach to planned change.

Organizational culture:  Basic patterns of attitudes, beliefs, and values that underlie an organization’s operation.

Organizational learning:  The process of correcting error through recognizing the disparity between what the group intends to happen and what actually occurs and then drawing appropriate lessons for the future from this fact.

Political economy approach:  Focusing on politics and economics as categories for analyzing organizational behavior.

Scientific management:  Approach to management based carefully defines laws, rules, and principles.

Strategic management:  A systems-based approach to management that seeks clarity with respect to goals and objectives, strategies to achieve those goals and objectives, and processes of evaluation to measure accomplishments. 

System theory:  Suggestion that public (or other) organizations can be viewed in the same general way as biological or physical systems.