11.235 Analyzing Projects and Organizations, Spring 2008
Organizations and their programs often seem, at first glance, chaotic and without order. Students embarking on evaluations and similar research, therefore, feel perplexed when faced with a live organization. This is because we have been taught to expect a certain kind of rationality in the way organ...
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| description | Organizations and their programs often seem, at first glance, chaotic and without order. Students embarking on evaluations and similar research, therefore, feel perplexed when faced with a live organization. This is because we have been taught to expect a certain kind of rationality in the way organizations behave that is often different than that which actually drives them. As a result of this seeming mismatch between what we expect and the actual reality, students of planning and planners, and researchers and professional evaluators, often recoil from the chaos of reality, wondering why the organization is not doing what it is "supposed" to be doing; correspondingly, they often make recommendations for change that are unrealistic, or draw conclusions from evaluations of success or failure that are not always on the mark. This course teaches students how to understand the rationality behind how organizations and their programs behave, and to be comfortable and analytical with a live organization. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/602782019-09-12T10:12:02Z 11.235 Analyzing Projects and Organizations, Spring 2008 Analyzing Projects and Organizations Tendler, Judith organizations organizational behavior government and nongovernment sociology of organizations political science public administration chaotic organizational environments implementation experience analytical skills projects organizations and environments developing-country and developed-country 521003 Organizational Behavior Studies Organizations and their programs often seem, at first glance, chaotic and without order. Students embarking on evaluations and similar research, therefore, feel perplexed when faced with a live organization. This is because we have been taught to expect a certain kind of rationality in the way organizations behave that is often different than that which actually drives them. As a result of this seeming mismatch between what we expect and the actual reality, students of planning and planners, and researchers and professional evaluators, often recoil from the chaos of reality, wondering why the organization is not doing what it is "supposed" to be doing; correspondingly, they often make recommendations for change that are unrealistic, or draw conclusions from evaluations of success or failure that are not always on the mark. This course teaches students how to understand the rationality behind how organizations and their programs behave, and to be comfortable and analytical with a live organization. 2010-12-13T11:04:40Z 2010-12-13T11:04:40Z 2008-06 2010-12-13T11:04:42Z 11.235-Spring2008 11.235 IMSCP-MD5-99ffce041b8aa88bc9ddbe2fc3a1c5c8 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60278 en-US http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45540 This site (c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010. Content within individual courses is (c) by the individual authors unless otherwise noted. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is providing this Work (as defined below) under the terms of this Creative Commons public license ("CCPL" or "license") unless otherwise noted. The Work is protected by copyright and/or other applicable law. Any use of the work other than as authorized under this license is prohibited. By exercising any of the rights to the Work provided here, You (as defined below) accept and agree to be bound by the terms of this license. The Licensor, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, grants You the rights contained here in consideration of Your acceptance of such terms and conditions. text/html Spring 2008 |
| spellingShingle | organizations organizational behavior government and nongovernment sociology of organizations political science public administration chaotic organizational environments implementation experience analytical skills projects organizations and environments developing-country and developed-country 521003 Organizational Behavior Studies Tendler, Judith 11.235 Analyzing Projects and Organizations, Spring 2008 |
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| title_short | 11.235 Analyzing Projects and Organizations, Spring 2008 |
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| topic | organizations organizational behavior government and nongovernment sociology of organizations political science public administration chaotic organizational environments implementation experience analytical skills projects organizations and environments developing-country and developed-country 521003 Organizational Behavior Studies |
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