Designing Organizations

This course focuses on how organizations are structured or designed so that they can establish and successfully execute their strategies. This course will discuss the basic factors that should be taken into account while designing an organization. It will highlight some of the fundamental principles in designing the overall structure of an organization. Finally, we’ll learn how to design the coordination and control and performance measurement systems to manage the organization

Learning objectives of the course:
Upon completion of this course the students will be able to:
1.Explain principles of organization structure and design; environment, strategy, technology, organizational culture, change, organizational and inter-organizational relationships, decision making hierarchies, bureaucracy, power, and politics.
2.Explain various organization theories which enable managers to understand, predict, and influence organizational design/structure and development.
3.Identify the complex issues faced by managers in the area of ethics and social responsibility in organizational development; link organizational design to global business strategies and practices.