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Defining the organization. Approaches to studying organizations. A brief history of the development of organizational studies. Classical and neoclassical organization theories. Job design. Job enlargement. Job enrichment. Motivation. Process and content theories. Emotions and attitudes. Authority relations. The concept and role of hierarchies. Coordination mechanisms in differentiating organizational arrangements. Understanding organizational context. Economics of organizations. Examples of normative and positive theory development. Problems of conducting empirical research. The problem of setting organization boundaries. Network arrangements. Outsourcing risks and opportunities. Public and private sector organizations. Economics of ownership. Limited rationality. Opportunistic behavior. Issues in defining roles and responsibilities of knowledge workers (professionals and public managers). Agency relations. Agency costs.