Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

The course is aimed to provide students with basic understandings of organizational structures and managerial challenges, taking into account complexity generated both by external global environment and internal co-ordination needs. At the end of the course students will be able to perform basic organizational analyses of the main organizational functional areas in different organizational settings: e.g. private firms vs public institutions and Small and Medium Enterprises vs. big firms. Moreover the use of an international textbook published by an outstanding editor will introduce students with international approaches to organizational studies. The course will deeply deal with the following topics:
Introductory issues: Definition of an organization and the sense of organizing, Organizational effectiveness, the role and responsibilities of stakeholders and managers;
Principles of organizational design: Differentiation and integration, Centralization and decentralization, Standardization and mutual adjustment, Minzberg’s Model of the 5 parts of the organization;
Designing organizational structure: Authority and control, Informal organization, IT, empowerment and self-managed teams;
Organizational structures: Functional structure, multi-divisional structure, Matrix structure, Network structure;
Creating and managing organizational culture: Values and norms, Socialization and identification, corporate social responsibility;
The relationship between organization and technology and the importance of a competence-based approach
Decision-making, organizational learning and knowledge management