This book represents the primary text resource for MANT 251: Management and Organisations, a course taught in the Management Department at the University of Otago. Once you start flicking through the pages you will see it is less a text book and more a selection of key chapters from four text books: (i) Gareth Jones (2010) Organisation Theory, Design & Change, 6th ed.; (ii) Johnson, Scholes & Whittington (2009) Fundamentals of strategy; (iii) Johnson, Whittington & Scholes (2011) Exploring Strategy; and (vi) Slack, Chambers, & Johnston, (2010) Operations management, 6th ed. As the cover suggests, this text book should be approached as a set of jigsaw pieces that can be connected to form a coherent multi-dimensional picture of management and organisations.
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Preface
How to use this custom book
Section 1: Organisational Theory
Topic 1 Organisations and organisational effectiveness
Topic 2 Stakeholders, managers, and ethics
Topic 3 Designing organisational structure: authority and control
Topic 4 Designing organisational structure: specialisation and coordination
Section 2: Fundamentals of Strategy
Topic 5 Introducing strategy
Topic 6 Strategy development processes
Topic 7 The external environment
Topic 8 Strategic capability
Topic 9 Business-level strategy
Topic 10 Culture and strategy
Topic 11 Governance, stakeholders and strategy
Section 3: Operations Management
Topic 12 Operations management
Topic 13 Operations strategy
Topic 14 Process design
Topic 15 The design of products and services
Topic 16 The nature of planning and control
Topic 17 Capacity planning and control
Topic 18 Operations improvement
Index