Prompts about Structure
- We are all educated to assume professional roles. Some of us will work in professional organizations and others of us will work in machine bureaucracies and others in networked organizations. What are the differences for the ways that we will carry out our work?
- What are the organizational challenges when two organizations choose to work together?
Prompts about Human Resources
- Why does there appear to be an increasing push to greater participation in organization management?
- What are the problems that managers encounters who opts for a more participatory management style?
Prompts about Politics
- Politics are inevitable. What tools do you have to manage effectively in a politicized environment?
Prompts about Culture
- According to Bolman and Deal, symbols are a basic element of organizational culture. Identify the various forms symbols can take. Describe a work experience (past or present) that illustrates at least two symbolic forms.
Prompts about Leadership
- According to Bolman and Deal, why is “reframing” essential for effective leadership and management of organizations?
- Summarize the debates about leadership and gender and/or diversity in organizations.
- Why are we reading so many cases of supposedly leaders putting perceived organizational survival over ethical principles? As I type this I am thinking Anthony Weiner’s candidacy for Mayor of New York City.
Prompts that look across Frames
- Compare and contrast the core assumptions of the structural, human resources, political, and cultural frames.
- Compare and contrast the key analytic weakness of the structural, human resources, political, and cultural frames.
