This document outlines a course on organization design and structural processes. The course aims to provide a comprehensive perspective on new organizational forms by discussing them in the context of environment, systems, and processes. The course covers topics such as defining organizations and organizational structures, the relationship between organizations and their environment, different approaches to organizational design, organizational effectiveness, and emerging organizational forms like networks and self-organizing systems. Students will develop an understanding of organizational structures and designs, the importance of developing solutions for effective organizational processes, and constituents of networks and self-organizing systems. Assessment includes components, weightage, and references.
This document outlines a course on organization design and structural processes. The course aims to provide a comprehensive perspective on new organizational forms by discussing them in the context of environment, systems, and processes. The course covers topics such as defining organizations and organizational structures, the relationship between organizations and their environment, different approaches to organizational design, organizational effectiveness, and emerging organizational forms like networks and self-organizing systems. Students will develop an understanding of organizational structures and designs, the importance of developing solutions for effective organizational processes, and constituents of networks and self-organizing systems. Assessment includes components, weightage, and references.
This document outlines a course on organization design and structural processes. The course aims to provide a comprehensive perspective on new organizational forms by discussing them in the context of environment, systems, and processes. The course covers topics such as defining organizations and organizational structures, the relationship between organizations and their environment, different approaches to organizational design, organizational effectiveness, and emerging organizational forms like networks and self-organizing systems. Students will develop an understanding of organizational structures and designs, the importance of developing solutions for effective organizational processes, and constituents of networks and self-organizing systems. Assessment includes components, weightage, and references.
This document outlines a course on organization design and structural processes. The course aims to provide a comprehensive perspective on new organizational forms by discussing them in the context of environment, systems, and processes. The course covers topics such as defining organizations and organizational structures, the relationship between organizations and their environment, different approaches to organizational design, organizational effectiveness, and emerging organizational forms like networks and self-organizing systems. Students will develop an understanding of organizational structures and designs, the importance of developing solutions for effective organizational processes, and constituents of networks and self-organizing systems. Assessment includes components, weightage, and references.
Course Objective: To develop an understanding of the nature, functioning and design of organization as social collectives and to develop theoretical & practical insights & problem solving capabilities for effectively managing the organizational processes. This course aims to provide a comprehensive perspective on new emergent organizational forms by discussing them in the context of environment, systems & processes.
Course Contents:
Module I: Overview of Organizations Defining Organizations, Types of Organizations, Determinants of Organization Design, Parameters of Organization Design, Definition of Organizational Structure, Complexity, Formalization and Centralization
Module II: Organization & Environment Organizational Environment, Specific and General Environment, Sources of Uncertainty in Organizational Environment, Hyper-Turbulence; Networks and Business Eco-Systems; Technological Discontinuities; Paradigm Shift
Module III: Types of Organization Organization Design, Approaches to Organizational Design, Basic Challenges of Organizational Design, Organizational Design for Different Excellences, New Design Option
Module IV: Organizational Effectiveness Organizational Effectiveness- Definition, Importance and Approaches to Organizational Effectiveness - The Goal Attainment Approach, The System Approach, The Strategic Approach.
Module V: Emerging Organizational Forms Organizations as Networks/ Clusters; Self Organizing Systems; Designing for Innovation and Change.
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this course students should be able to: Develop an understanding of the concepts and differences of Organizational structures and designs.. Develop an understanding about the importance of developing problem solving for effective Organizational processes. Will help them to understand the constituents of Network, Clusters and Self Organizing Systems.
Examination Scheme:
Components CPA TP Q/S A ME EE Weightage (%) 5 5 5 5 10 70
Text & References:
Hall, R. H. (2002), Organizations: Structures, Processes and Outcomes, Prentice Hall India Robbins Stephens (2009), Organization Structure, Design and Applications, Pearson Education Ackoff, R.L. (1999), Recreating the Corporation: A Design of Organization for the 21 st century. Oxford University Press. Banner, D.K. & Gague, T.E. (1995), Designing Effective Organizations, Sage Publications.