Organizational Theories

General Objectives
At the end of this session, the students have the knowledge, ideas, and attitude necessary for organizing a group/organization and particularly be familiar with different organizational theories

Topics/Session:
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Class introduction Definition of organizational theories Introduction of some popular organization 3.1 United Nations Perspective
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Consensus Perspective Conflict Perspective Project Oriented guidelines

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3.2 Marxist Maoist Orientation 3.3 Mao Tse Tsung 3.4 Gandhis Active Nonviolence Discussion of organizational theories including the factors that motivated them to organize it.
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Introduction
We have traced the history of organizing in the Philippines. In fact organizing is not a new thing in our country. Organizing started at the beginning of the earth. When God himself put everything in order during His creation. He does not even want things in chaos and so He made everything in proper order. We will be examining some more popular organizational theories and look at the theme and how the author was able to come with those theories.
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1. United Nations Perspective

Purpose: Social progress through community development Marshall Plan: Reconstruction of the world after World War II
Community Development is rehabilitation of the community through community organizing Consensus (Functional Perspective) VS Conflict Perspective Consensus means that the elements of society must be organized and support each other

Approach
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Unity Collaboration Consensus Conflict perspective would state that in a society there is always one party that is in conflict with each other.

Solution to conflicts 1. Elimination of one 2. Engulfing the other party

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Project Oriented Guidelines

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Projects should be based on the needs of the people Felt needs vs Real needs People may not see the need but actually need it If people do not see the need, or does not realize their need, the organizer need to CREATE the need so that the people will realize and feel that there is a need Responding to the needs can be achieved through unrelated events that require collaboration and cooperation Changed attitude of the people Increased participation in community affairs Greater on women and youth, because women are always available in the community
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Training and development of local leaders Intensive and extensive support of the government Use of voluntary organizations Program from National to local this requires coordinated policies and procedures Development at the local level requires parallel at the national level
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Karl Marx

2. Marxist-Maoist Orientation
Karl Marxs idea: to have a classless society Everybody owns everything Nobody owns any property View: labor and capitalist are opposing parties where the capitalist is the oppressor and the laborers are the oppressed 1. Abolition of all property and lands 2. Confiscation of all private lands 3. Centralization of payment communication and transportation 4. Combination of agriculture and manufacturing 5. Free education
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Methodology: Violent Revolution toppling the preset society through violent revolution Goal: Socialist state Focus: Labor

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Mao Tse-Tsung

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Made use of Marxs theory but focuses on countryside before penetrating in the cities He organized pheasants and moved forward to engulf the cities

Methodology: Violent revolution

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhis Active Nonviolence

Gandhi is social democrat that liberated India from Britain through passive resistance, an active nonviolence Principle 1. passive-resistance through civil disobedience 2. Creating social changes by using passiveresistance E.g. resisting imported products but at the same time making their own products
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THE END

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