Organizations, Bureaucracy, Professions & Delegation¶

Human Worlds

What you will develop¶

Trace decision and information chains inside organizations and redesign oversight without destroying useful discretion.

Before you begin¶

Recorded prerequisites:

• Interaction, Identity, Norms & Influence
• Strategic Interaction, Bargaining & Cooperation
• Networks, Diffusion, Brokerage & Segregation
• Collective action and the commons

Study and practice¶

This is a study outline. A complete practice sequence is not yet available.

• division of labor
• hierarchy
• delegation
• principal-agent
• discretion
• expertise
• professions
• routines
• metrics

Division of labor, hierarchy & routines¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Delegation, principal-agent & discretion¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Expertise, professions & information asymmetry¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Metrics, incentives, Goodhart effects & organizational drift¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Intended demonstration¶

Delegation map + metric audit + redesign

This describes the intended standard, not a validated assessment or a claim of mastery.

Reading options¶

Assigned readings, where available, appear in the practice sequence above. These additional recommendations are not all required reading.

• Economy and Society (selected sections on bureaucracy and authority)
• Formal Models of Bureaucracy

Continue¶

Connections above reflect recorded prerequisites, not a compulsory calendar.

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