Course Program
The course aims to teach and provide students with instruments and notion needed to analyze an organization, its structure, interdependecies and coordination approaches in it.
Chapter 1 - Definition of Organization - Why Organizations - Dimension of Organizations - Efficiency & Effectiveness - Scientific Management vs Hawthorne Approach - Mintzberg Organizational Types;
Chapter 2 - Organizational & Operative Goals - Organizational Mission & Strategy - Competitive advantage & Porter’s competitive forces - Differentiation, Cost Leadership & Focus Strategy - Miles & Snow Strategy Typology;
Chapter 3 - Organization Structure Definition - Centralization vs decentralization - Liason Roles - Functional Macrostructure - Divisional Macrostructure - Matrix Macrostructure - Horizontal Macrostructure - Network Macrostructure;
Chapter 4 - Organizational Environment - Environment Characteristics - Organic vs Mechanistic Management;
Chapter 5 - Organizational Ecosystem - Interorganizational Framework (population ecology, institutionalism, Resource dependence theory, collaborative networks);
Chapter 6 - Why entering the global Arena? - Challenges linked to international development - Stages of international development - Changes in structure to adapt to international expansion;
Chapter 7 - Core manufacturing technology in organization (Woodward) - Service Firms (definition) - Categories of technology (Perrow) - Interdependence (Thompson) - Artificial Intelligence and predicted impact on Organizations - Impact of Technology on Job Design - Sociotechnical System Approach ;
Chapter 8 - Organization Decision Making Systems (MIS);
Chapter 9 - Organization LifeCycle - Bureucracy (Weber) - Forms of control in Organization;
Chapter 10 - Concept of Culture in Organizations - The Adaptability Culture - The Mission Culture - The Clan Culture - The Bureaucratic Culture;
Chapter 12 - Decision Making process in Organizations - Management Science approach - Carnegie Model - Incremental Decision - Incremental Model + Carnegie Model - Garbage Can Model Out of the book topics: - Social Network Analysis (SNA) - Techniques for process representation and optimization (EPC - BPMN 2.0).
