SIERRA VISTA CAMPUS
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
SYLLABUS
1. Mission Statement: Wayland Baptist University exists to educate students in an academically challenging,
learning-focused and distinctively Christian environment for professional success and service to God and
humankind.
2. Course: MGMT 5305 SV01 – Organizational Theory
3. Term: Winter 2015
4. Instructor: Dr. James E. Moffett, Sr.
5. Office Phone Number and WBU Email Address: (520) 459-7164 (Home); (520) 234-6714 (Cell);
jmoff@theriver.com or james.moffett@wayland.wbu.edu
6. Office Hours, Building, and Location. (520) 459-1610.
7. Class Meeting Time and Location: Landmark, Monday nights, 5:30 p.m. to 9:10 p.m.
8. Catalog Description: Organizations as complex systems impacted by environmental forces, and structure and
design dimensions required for effectiveness.
9. Prerequisites: BUAD 5300 (For the M.P.A. MGMT 3304 only).
10. Required Textbook and Resources:
BOOK
Organizational Theory
and Design
AUTHOR ED YEAR
Daft
12th
2016
PUBLISHER
ISBN#
UPDATED
Cengage Learning
978-1305629943
6/11/13
NOTE: This 12th ed. is an exclusive ISBN # for a loose-leaf version provided by the Cengage representative and
available ONLY at our WBU Bookstore.
11. Optional Materials: To be posted on WBU, MGMT 5305, Blackboard website.
12. Course Outcome Competencies:
Upon completion of this course the student should be able to:
 Describe an organization as an open system & hypothesize its application.
 Summarize the difference between a goal and a strategy.
 Identify the forces that influence environmental uncertainty.
 Differentiate between mimetic, coercive, and normative forces.
 Outline Woodward’s classification of organizational technologies.
 Illustrate an information system and subsystem design for managerial control, decision making, and
knowledge management.
 Contrast Weber’s framework against current organizational control strategies.
 Compare the differences among rites of enhancement, renewal, and integration.
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Discuss the focus in modern organizations on the History of Western Industrialization.
Develop a methodology for studying organizations.
Summarize the development of the theory of organizations.
Summarize how designing the organization to fit strategy and other contingencies can lead to
organization effectiveness.
Compare the five approaches for assessing organization effectiveness.
Discuss the interface of design components, coupling, and technology.
Using levels of analysis, explain the systemic relationship between environment, adaptation, and
change.
Differentiate between the stages of organizational life cycle development in relation to growth,
development, and decline.
Compare the different decision-making process models with the contingency framework.
Rank the impact of globalization on the future of organizations and their design.
Identify the five structural strategies for grouping organizational activities.
Describe the symptoms of structural deficiency.
Explain the institutional view in relation to organizational design and similarity.
Prepare a professional Organization Theory Plan (OTP) for a real-world organization.
13. Attendance Requirements: All absences must be explained to the instructor, who will determine whether
omitted work may be made up. If allowed, the late penalty (2 points) applies. When a student has absences in
accordance with WBU policy, the instructor will advise the student and file an unsatisfactory progress/attendance
report with the campus dean. Any student that misses more than 2.75 classes will receive a grade of F, per
WBU memo dated 5/27/09.
14. Statement on Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty: Writing is a collaborative art. Working out ideas for your
paper with an instructor, writing tutor, classmate, family member, or friend is encouraged not only for this class,
but also for other classes that involve writing. Discussion and collaborative brainstorming are good. However,
passing off another’s writing or ideas as your own is plagiarism. It is unethical, it constitutes Academic
Dishonesty (cheating), and it is sufficient grounds both for failure of a course and suspension from the university.
Common examples of plagiarism or academic dishonesty include the following:
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Copying any amount of text directly from an Internet website, book, or other document without
appropriate citation and synthesis into one’s own discussion.
Paraphrasing the ideas presented in any source or oral discussion without appropriate citation.
Using the evidence and conclusions of any source as the controlling framework for one’s own paper.
Recycling work from a previous or current course, whether your own work or another student’s work.
Purchasing or otherwise downloading a paper from an Internet website.
In some writing assignments, you will be expected to incorporate scholarly sources into your document. ALL OF
THE FOLLOWING must be met to constitute appropriate citation of any source:
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Including MLA, Chicago, or APA parenthetical or note-style citation format as required by the instructor.
Placing borrowed text directly from another source within “quotation marks.”
Introducing clearly another author’s voice into the document by means of a signal phrase (an introduction
of that author).
Offering, in short, a clear distinction between one’s own voice or ideas and those of any outside authors
brought into the discussion.
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Wayland Baptist University observes a ZERO TOLERANCE policy regarding Academic Dishonesty.
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Any suspected instance of academic dishonesty, including plagiarism, will first be evaluated by the
instructor and discussed individually with the student.
If the instructor determines that a student’s actions constitute Academic Dishonesty, the case will be filed
with the school dean (as determined by course prefix) and reported to the university executive vice
president/provost, as per university policy. ALL CASES OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY WILL RE
REPORTED.
Per university policy as described in the Wayland Academic Catalog, second offenses WILL RESULT IN
SUSPENSION FROM THE UNIVERSITY.
In this course, the first instance of Academic Dishonesty may also result in a zero on the assignment.
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15. Disability Statement: “In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), it is the
policy of Wayland Baptist University that no otherwise qualified person with a disability be excluded from
participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any educational program or
activity in the university. The Coordinator of Counseling Services serves as the coordinator of students with a
disability and should be contacted concerning accommodation requests at (806) 291- 3765. Documentation of a
disability must accompany any request for accommodations.”
16. Course Requirements and Grading Criteria: Students shall have protection through orderly procedures against
prejudices or capricious academic evaluation. A student who believes that he or she has not been held to
realistic academic standards, just evaluation procedures, or appropriate grading, may appeal the final grade given
in the course by using the student grade appeal process described in the Academic Catalog. Appeals may not be
made for advanced placement examinations or course bypass examinations. Appeals are limited to the final
course grade, which may be upheld, raised, or lowered at any stage of the appeal process. Any recommendation to
lower a course grade must be submitted through the Executive Vice President/Provost to the Faculty Assembly
Grade Appeals Committee for review and approval. The Faculty Assembly Grade Appeals Committee may instruct
that the course grade be upheld, raised, or lowered to a more proper evaluation.
17. Class Schedule: (Calendar, Topics, and Assignments): See below.
18. Additional information as desired by the faculty member: See below.
19. Proctor Hours:
No proctors are available on dates that the offices are closed. Please arrive early enough to complete the exam
prior to the close of business. Test proctoring is available on the final Saturday of the term, February 2, 2016,
from 8am to 2pm at the Landmark office only, and only by prior appointment.
Landmark office:
Fort Huachuca office:
Monday - Wednesday 8 AM - 9 PM
Thursday- 10 AM- 9 PM
Friday- 8 AM- Noon
Monday - Wednesday 8 AM - 5 PM
Thursday- 10:30 AM- 5 PM
Friday- 8 AM- Noon
20. Student Family Members: Family members of WBU students, particularly small children, may not
accompany the learner to class.
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21. Late Assignments: Assignments are late if submitted after 9:10 p.m. on the due date. Late assignments
receive a two (2)-point penalty.
22. Acceptable Web Sites: Four types of websites will be accepted as source citations: government (i.e., US,
State, local, etc.); academic (i.e., WBU and other libraries); companies and corporations (i.e., IBM, Raytheon,
etc.); and organizations (i.e., Ethics.org; AMAnet.org, etc.). General-use sites, such as Wikipedia and Google are
not accepted because of much unsubstantiated information and questionable authorships. Google Scholar and
Books are permitted.
23. Writing and Documentation. All students must know and apply APA 6th edition documentation.
24. Participation: Participation was previously discussed in paragraph 13. This course requires substantive
contributions to class exercises, activities, and discussions. Overall course participation equates to the assigned
points. The student must be present and actively involved to receive these points. Participation points
cannot be made up.
25. Reading Assignments: Course readings are in accordance with the below week-by-week topics. Be prepared
to discuss the concepts in class.
26. Homework Assignments: A series of homework assignments will result in development of a professional
Organization Theory Plan (OTP), (12 – 15 content pages) which will be written from your strategic
perspective as a concerned Leader who desires mission and task accomplishment with motivated people.
27. Papers consist of a title page, the below Outline, definitions, relating content, conclusion, reference
page, and APA Level 1 headings are mandatory.
Present your topic sentence first. A premium is placed on strong topic sentences, which provide the central idea
or essence of the paragraph. Topic sentences, paragraph unity (developing one central idea), and paragraph
coherence (the sentences seem to flow logically and smoothly into one another; readers can see how the paragraph
holds together) (Aaron, 2001) will be assessed under the conventions of writing criteria, among other conventions
of writing, such as indenting, use of capitals, etc.
PowerPoint presentations, if required, should consist of minimal slides that address the concepts. Citations and a
reference list are required at each submission. At least twelve (12) sources are required at the OTP’s
completion. The instructor prefers more book, journal, magazine, newspaper, and peered-reviewed sources
and fewer online sources. Other org theory reading is recommended.
Aaron, J. E. (2001). The little brown compact handbook (Revised Custom 4th ed.). Boston, MA:
Pearson Custom Publishing
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Organization Theory Plan (OTP)
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Thesis Statement and Practical Values and Benefits
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Organization Sustainability
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Organizational Purpose .
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Goals
Strategic Intent
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The External Environment
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Interorganizational Relationships
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Mimetic Forces
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Managing Dynamic Processes .
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Organizational Culture
Critical Thinking
Decision Making
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Conclusion
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OTP Organization format. The below format is gradable:
A) Always define key concepts.
B) Fellow the Writing Specifics. Relate the concept to your organization via a workplace example.
C) In a separate paragraph, when ending an L1 section, include this statement, “A benefit of (insert the L1
heading) is …” Then state, “This discussion supports the thesis, ‘(include your thesis verbatim).’”
D) Last, in the same paragraph, include a transitional sentence to the next section.
29. WBU Course Grading Scale:
Letter Grade
Point Percentage
A
90-100
B
80-89
C
70-79
Letter Grade
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F
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Point Percentage
60-69
59 and below
30. Organization Theory Plan (OTP) Assignments
Topics and Student Actions
Due Dates
Points
Participation Pts.
Readings
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Thesis Statement with
Practical Values and Benefits Nov. 9
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2
As needed
Organization Description
Organization Sustainability
Nov. 16
0
1
As needed
Organizational Purpose
Goals
Strategic Intent
(No Class: Nov. 23)
Strategy
OTP1 Submitted
Nov. 30*
25
1
As needed
*(15: Content; 10: Other: Organization, APA, Benefits, Re-stated thesis, Grammar, Style,
Conventions, and Transitions)
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Mechanistic or Organic?
The External Environment
Interorganizational Relationships
Mimetic Forces
Coercive Forces
Normative Forces
Organizational Realities
Dec. 7
0
1
As needed
Dec. 14
0
1
As needed
Jan. 4
0
1
As needed
OTP2 Submitted
Jan. 11*
25
1
As needed
*(15: Content; 10: Other: Organization, APA, Benefits, Re-stated thesis, Grammar, Style,
Conventions, and Transitions)
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Managing Dynamic Processes
Organizational Culture
Critical Thinking
Decision Making
(No Class: Jan. 18)
Innovation and Change
Final exam posted:
Jan 25
Submit Final exam
not later than 11:59 p.m.
Jan. 31
Original OTP Model Presentation
Feb. 1
Conclusion
References
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10 (T/F, 10 x 1)
As needed
5
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1
As needed
Submit final OTP3 by 9:10 p.m.
Feb. 8*
19
1
As needed
and sign Attendance
*(15: Content; 10: Other: Organization, APA, Benefits, Re-stated thesis, Grammar, Style,
Conventions, and Transitions)
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Totals
89
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11
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100
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