11.235 Analyzing Projects and Organizations, Spring 2008
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Author(s)
Tendler, Judith
Alternative Title
Analyzing Projects and Organizations
Date Issued
June 2008
Abstract
Organizations and their programs often seem, at first glance, chaotic and without order. Students embarking on evaluations and similar research, therefore, feel perplexed when faced with a live organization. This is because we have been taught to expect a certain kind of rationality in the way organizations behave that is often different than that which actually drives them. As a result of this seeming mismatch between what we expect and the actual reality, students of planning and planners, and researchers and professional evaluators, often recoil from the chaos of reality, wondering why the organization is not doing what it is "supposed" to be doing; correspondingly, they often make recommendations for change that are unrealistic, or draw conclusions from evaluations of success or failure that are not always on the mark. This course teaches students how to understand the rationality behind how organizations and their programs behave, and to be comfortable and analytical with a live organization.
Subjects
organizations
organizational behavior
government and nongovernment
sociology of organizations
political science
public administration
chaotic organizational environments
implementation experience
analytical skills
projects
organizations
and environments
developing-country and developed-country
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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