Contemporary Organizational Approaches (MASTER)

Introduce the development of different perspectives on organization. Explain contemporary organization approaches. Explain approaches by recognizing their assumptions. Compare approaches and their contributions. Evaluatue approaches for contribution to corporate social responsibility in digital era.
Develop competencies of studying scientific literature, approaches to identifying and problem solving, critical analysis and synthesis, solution development and recognizing principle elements of organization.

1. Understanding organizations and development of contemporary organizational approaches
2. Development of different understandings of organization: technical organization, organizational process, social unit, social structure, systems view, developed approach
3. Contingency approach and the role of employeesin a social unit
4. Transactional approach
5. Institutional approach
6. Ecology population approach
7. Agency and stakeholder approach
8. Network and ecosystems approach
9. Multilevel approach
10. Paradoxical approach
11. Future developments of organization and organization approaches