Course Introduction and Overview
In this session we will introduce the course materials and discuss the interactive seminar format that will be utilized. In addition, I will provide a mini-lecture on several themes that will recur throughout the course.
- Managers as Critical Users of Information.
- Critical Multiplism and Perspectivism: Images, Metaphors, and Frames for Understanding Organizations
- The Process of Managing
- The Fundamental Design Function
- The Environmental Imperative