Structuring and Managing Organisations

Learning Outcomes

Competences:

At the end of the module/unit the learner will have acquired the responsibility and autonomy to:

• Evaluate the forces shaping today’s organisation
• Create and integrate processes
• Manage processes in organisations such as; stages of team development, stages of group development, team effectiveness and development and integrate team roles
• Identify and evaluate traditional and non-traditional models and modern approaches

Knowledge:

At the end of the module/unit the learner will have been exposed to the following:

• The star shaped model; Strategy, structure, process, rewards and people
• The strategic implications of organisation design
• Aligning strategy and structure; reacting to the external environment, meeting environmental needs, mechanistic vs organic and strategy-structure relationship and options
• Organisation designs such as; functional organisations, self-contained unit organisations, matrix organisations, process based structures and network based structures
• Process implications of organisation design
• Traditional models and non-traditional models and modern approaches

Skills:

At the end of the module/unit the learner will have acquired the following skills:

• Define the forces shaping today’s organisation
• Describe designing organisations to meet organisation strategies
• Define different organisation designs
• Identify the process implications of organisation design
• Describe traditional models, non-traditional models and modern approaches

Module-Specific Judgment Skills and Critical Abilities:

The learner will be able to:

• Evaluate the foundations of organisation design i.e. the star shaped model
• Critically examine the strategy vs structure paradigm
• Assess different organisation designs
• Critically analyse how to move away from traditional to non-traditional to modern designs

Module-Specific Communication Skills:

The learner will be able to:

• Illustrate the forces shaping today’s organisation
• Describe the strategy vs structure paradigm
• Discuss how to design organisations to meet organisation strategies
• State different organisation designs such as; functional organisations, self-contained unit organisations, matrix organisations, process based structures and network based structures
• Explain the process implications of organisation design i.e. the process vs structure paradigm, lateral co-ordination and 5 types of lateral processes
• Illustrate how to move from traditional to non-traditional to modern designs

Module-Specific Learner Skills:

The learner will be able to:

• Proceed to study the forces shaping today’s organisation such as; buyer power, variety and solutions, the internet, multiple decisions, change and speed
• Undertake further studies in aligning strategy and structure through reacting to the external environment, meeting environmental needs, mechanistic vs organic and strategy-structure relationship and options
• Study the process implications of organisational design
• Undertake further studies in managing processes in organisations such as; stages of team development, stages of group development, team effectiveness and development and integrate team roles

Module-Specific Digital Skills and Competences:

The learner will be able to:

• Navigate through the online learning platform to benefit from assignments, discussion boards, literature, tutorials etc.