We live in a complex world and systems thinking is a way of looking at this complexity in its entirety. Complex meaning complicated in structure and interconnected parts that makes up the whole which is often difficult to analyze or…
Now that we know what social entrepreneurship broadly means, let’s take a look at the defining and differentiating features of social enterprise or social entrepreneurial ventures (SEVs) by comparing it with traditional for-profit corporate entrepreneurial ventures (CEVs) and non-profit organizations…
Social entrepreneurship has gained enormous recognition since Dr. Muhammad Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. The term has become more common in daily discourse, especially when talking about creating innovative solutions to social problems. At the same time,…
Taylorism has permeated every form of organization and has become the bedrock for most economies since he proposed his theory of scientific management in 1911. At the same time, Taylor was also the most maligned organizational theorist of all time.…
There has been a lot of criticism of Taylor’s scientific management and its assumptions concerning human behavior. Scientific management examined the job function of workers in the factories through an organizational system that incentivized work to resolve the conflict between…
Scientific Management or Taylorism is a theory associated with Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 –1915), who was considered to be the father of scientific management. His work laid the foundation of modern management theories. Taylor’s work was at its peak during…
Social construction is a theory that belongs to the symbolic interactionist perspective. Peter Burger and Thomas Luckmann presented the idea of social construction in the 1960s. They argued that social realities are constructed and maintained in social interaction. That is,…
Organization Theory is a vast topic with many types of theories. Before tackling different organization theories and even before dealing with ‘organization theory’, it’s useful to understand the terms “organization” and “theory” separately. Organization and organizing When organization is used…
