# Calendar

LEC # | TOPICS | SUBTOPICS
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I. Organizations and Organization Theory
1 | Organizations: Definitions, Evolution, and Current Developments | Orientation: Introductions, Expectations, Course Structure, Assignments Organizations: Definitions, Evolution, and Current Developments
2 | Organization Theory: Historical, Conceptual and Occupational Trends |
3 | Debating Contemporary Organization Theory | Theory and Theorizing Pluralism and its Discontents
II. Main Contemporary Conceptual Frameworks
4 | Structural Contingency and Resource Dependence Theories | Structural Contingency Theory Resource Dependence Theory
5 | Social Network Analysis |
6 | New Institutionalism |
7 | Organizational Ecology |
III. Technology and Professions
8 | Technology in the Workplace |
9 | Professional Work |
IV. Students' Projects
10 | Class Presentation and Discussion of Students' Term-Papers |
11 | Class Presentation and Discussion of Students' Term-Papers (cont.) |