COMPANY STRUCTURE
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2021/2022
- Teacher
- GIOVANNI MASINO
- Credits
- 9
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- SECS-P/10
Training objectives
- The goal of the course is to provide the knowledge and conceptual tools in order to be able to perform an organizational analysis. A specific focus will be given to issues of work organization, coordination, organizational design and human resource management.
At the end of the course students will be able to assess the coherence of the organizational design of a company, to interpret the organizational policies while utilizing different conceptual postures, and to identify alternative organizational solutions to specific problems. Prerequisites
- It is helpful, for a successful learning experience in this course, to know and understand the basic concepts about business economics.
Course programme
- First part (about 6 hours)
- Introduction to the concept of organization and organizational rationality
Second part (about 14 hours)
- General introduction to work organization
- Taylorism and Scientific Management
- Informal organization and the Human Relations approach
- Human motivation
- Job design
Third part (about 20 hours)
- Interdependence and coordination
- Organizational design according to Mintzberg
- The technological contingency approach
- The environmental contingency approach
- Herbert Simon’s approach
- Organizational assessment
- Organizational boundaries
Fourth part (about 16 hours)
- People and organizations
- Negotiation and compensation
- Managing discretion
- Case studies Didactic methods
- Mostly traditional lectures. Some interactive exercises, towards the end of the course, with collective discussion about short videos or case studies about real companies, coordinated by the teacher.
Learning assessment procedures
- Written examination.
The exam aims at testing the level of achievement of the learning objectives as indicated above. The exam is divided in two parts: 15 multiple choice questions (15 points) and 3 open-ended questions (15 points).
Both parts have the purpose to verify the knowledge that the students acquired about all the topics of the course.
The final grade is the sum of the scores of the two parts. To pass the exam the student must obtain a minimum score of 18 out of 30. Reference texts
- J. D. Thompson, L’Azione Organizzativa, ISEDI, chapters: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Other readings and teaching materials will be published on the "Google Classroom" site of the course. The code to access the site will be provided to all students before the beginning of the course.
