Syllabus

Organizational Design for Planning 2008

Term:

Credit: 2-0-0

Instructor: Tatsuro Sakano , Associate Professor, Department of Social Engineering

Office: W9-504

1 Lecturer: Tatsuro Sakano, Associate Professor, Department of Social Engineering

2 Purpose: The first purpose of this course is to give students an insight to evaluate critically the validity and relevance of organized decision making and collective action called planning.? By doing so, the course also aims at developing student’s capability to design and manage constructively the planning process and the organization in public domain.

3 Course Description: The limitation of objectivism and instrumental rationality in solving value conflicts and in overcoming limited rationality casts doubts on the efficiency and the legitimacy of modernistic style of planning and organization.? The development of planning theory and organizational design for the last half century is a result of exploration of the alternative mode of rationality. It is also a search process to formulate a new conception of public governance and to design a new institution which facilitates solving collective action dilemmas. The course starts with the comparison of different procedural styles of planning and the corresponding modes of rationality.? Then discussion expands to the issue of public governance and collective action dilemma, which leads to debates on their political and ethical implications. Second half will focus on organization theory.?

Course Outline

●Fist half on Planning Theory　

Week 1: Introduction: Overview of Planning and Organization Theory
Week 2: Advocacy versus Positive Science
Week 3: Incrementalism versus Rational Decision Making
Week 4: Political Thought and Mode of Planning?
Week 5: Collective Action Problem and Planning
Week 6: Social Capital and Institutional Performance of Democratic Reform
Week 7: Discursive Design of Planning and Redesigning Democratic Institution

●Second Half on Organization Theory

Week 8: Bureaucracy and Taylorism
Week9: Socio-Psychological Consequences of Taylorism
Week10: Intrinsic Motivation and Team Management
Week11: Decentralized Structure and Diversification Strategy
Week12: Contingency Theory of Organization
Week13: Beyond Paradox of Hierarchy
Week14: New Public Management and Beyond

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