AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at introducing students to the main issues of organizational design and behavior.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at introducing students to the main issues of organizational design and behavior.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

• Aims and methods of organizational analysis
• People in organizations: personality, values, behaviour
• Design choice and organizational architectures
• Organizational culture and cultural diversity
• Perception, action and organizational identity
• Rationality in organizational action and decision processes
• Teamwork and teamwork issues
• Organizational knowledge and internal communication
• Power and leadership
• Motivation and organizational performance
• Conflict and negotiation
• Organizational change

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Attending students are required to study the following Italian textbook, chapter by chapter: G. Salvemini, 2017, Organizzazione aziendale, Egea, Milano (except from chapters 4, 7, 13 e 16). Foreign non-attending students, however, may have an independent study of the subject by taking one of the following very different textbooks:

• Gareth Jones, Organization Theory and Design, any edition (for the organization design part)
• Richard Daft, Organization Theory and Design, any edition (for the organization design part)
• Robbins & Judge, Organizational Behavior, any edition (for the organizational behavior part)

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LORENZO MIZZAU (President)

ANGELO GASPARRE

TERESINA TORRE

TERESINA TORRE (President)

ANGELO GASPARRE

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Second semester

Class schedule

ORGANIZATION DESIGN AND BEHAVIOUR A

EXAMS

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION