This week’s reading and discussions examine the role of the manager

in an organization and how the role has changed both in theory and practice. In addition, students will consider the development of organizational management theory, how it is influenced by the business landscape, and its importance to the manager as a tool to help organizations accomplish their goals.
Theme One: The study of organizational theory and management has evolved along with change in business landscape. In order to appreciate the place management theory has in business today it is important to learn about the evolutionary changes in the business landscape as well as how it has affected the business organization.
Read/View:

-Organizational Theory Timeline (This timeline is an outline of the Schools of Thought and the theorists who proposed their philosophies of management since the early 1900’s to current day. This timeline is important in completing Assignment #1 due in week 3).
-21st Century Slideshare on Business Challenges
-Characteristics of 21st Century Organizations
-Workplace Trends in the 21st Century
-HEC Centennial Debate: Responsible Management and the challenges of the 21st Century (video 1:44 minutes – optional but interesting challenges that businesses face. Economic globalization, information revolutions, depletion of the earth’s resources, accelerating production cycles, weakening of the nation-state…these are just a few of the challenges facing us in the 21st century. In what ways can responsible management address these issues? Indeed, what does responsible management actually mean? How should we educate the world’s future business managers and leaders to face these challenges? In the HEC Lausanne centennial debate, a distinguished panel of business leaders and intellectuals attempt to answer and discuss these questions.)

This week, students learn about organizational theory and the relationship to the role of 21st century manager. A manager is a person whose job it is to direct the implementation and achievement of a subset of organizational goals. Organizational theory is a field of study that has evolved in the last one hundred years to offer assistance to managers in the way they approach their job in an effort to accomplish the organization’s vision and mission. The 21st century manager is a person who organizes, executes, and plans the process and production of an organization. Traditionally, the role of the manager, as defined by organizational theory, has been the person who sets short term goals for the organization to execute and performs tasks that include the process, procedure, and production of the organization’s purpose or vision. The modern role of the manager still includes these tasks but has developed to include the role of facilitator in the way the manager accomplishes the organizational goals assigned to his or her control.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING:

-With these ideas in mind, compare and contrast the role of management, as reflected by management theory, in the 20thcentury organization with the role of management in the 21st  Include in your discussion the theoretical schools of thought(s) that speak to the manager’s role in the business environment as well as definition of the environment itself.
-How has the change in business purpose (i.e. manufacturing vs. service) and the business environment, worker attitudes, and behaviors affected the role of the manager in an organization and how has the theory evolved to cope? Discuss in detail. Be

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