Inaugural Lecture with Professor Daved Barry
MPP Bridging Management and Humanities Inaugural Lecture Series
Inaugural Lecture:
The New Organization Design by Professor Daved Barry
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS invites you to join Professor Daved Barry’s inaugural lecture on Wednesday, December 1 2010 at 15:00. Daved Barry is Professor in Creative Organization Studies at Copenhagen Business School since August 2010 and Adjunct Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Earlier he studied painting, chemistry, music, and cooking, eventually going on to complete a BA (hons) in Psychology and a PhD in Strategic Management and Organizational Psychology at the University of Maryland.
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Program: |
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15:00-15:10 |
Welcome by Head of Department, Professor Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, CBS |
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15:10-16:00 |
Inauguration lecture by Professor Daved Barry |
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16:00-17:00 |
Reception |
The New Organization Design
As an academic field, Organization Design began coalescing around Max Weber’s time, though its roots go much further back (think of Plato’s Republic). Historically it has been a rather cold and abstract area, filled with organizational charts, descriptions of organizational arrangements, contingent do’s and don’ts, and distanced computation.
It was popular up until the early 80’s, when people thought that it could become the holy grail for managing. But it’s colourlessness and lack of a practical track record resulted in its being displaced by more engaging fields; e.g., Organizational Culture, Strategic Management, and even Population Ecology.
Thirty years later, Organization Design seems to be rising from the dead. While it previously used the word “design” to denote structuralist recipes, these days it is turning to the more tangible, experimental, creational design fields; e.g. fashion, auto, software, graphics, experiential, social, and strategic design. With this is coming a radical shift in organizational design thinking, paving the way towards a warmer, livelier, and more engaging field In his talk, Daved Barry will briefly expand on some of the above points and then turn to how Organization Design could work if it starts to incorporate the sensory, aesthetic, artful, and creative sides of design.
MPP Inaugural Lecture Series: BRIDGING HUMANISM AND MANAGEMENT is set this autumn and winter with newly appointed professors:
22 September 2010 – Professor Pierre Guillet de Monthoux: ’Money – a bridge between management and the humanities?’
16 November 2010 – Professor Kurt Jacobsen: ’History matters’
1 December 2010 – Professor Daved Barry: ‘The New Organizational Design’
15 December 2010 – Professor Daniel Hjorth: ’Organisational Creativity - Affirmation and Intensity'
17 January 2011 – Professor Robert Austin: ‘Accidental Innovation – Supporting valuable Unpredictability in Creative Process’
3 February 2011 – Professor Sverre Raffnsøe: ’Critique Incorporated’
3 March 2011 – Professor Lotte Jensen: ‘Expenditure politics and welfare management’