The course aims to introduce the main organizational issues through a structured organizational analysis path that allows to understand the context and relationships in which the organizational issues are located and to experiment managerial actions and implications to face them..
The course aims to provide students with the fundamental theoretical-interpretative tools and basic tools for the analysis and design of organizations, both for internal action within companies and from the perspective of organizational consultancy.
The course has the following objectives - present the organizational perspective of companies - introduce the organizational analysis process - support students in the path of in-depth analysis of organizational analysis. At the end of the course, students who are committed will be able to - know the organizational variables, their characteristics and methods of analysis - know how an organization works - know how to analyze an organization - understand organizational problems - communicate them appropriately
Frontal teaching is used to present the contents; activities are proposed that allow the student to better understand and appropriate the contents.
The course is taght in itaian.
Students who have valid certification of physical or learning disabilities and who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework and exams, should speak both with the instructor and with Professor Fanlo Cortes (isa.fanlo@unige.it), the Department’s disability liaison
The course develops the organizational design process according to a step-by-step approach aimed at creating the conditions for the adequacy of the organizational structure. It analyzes in detail ØThe organizational foundations Ø The organizational problem ØOrganizational planning • ØWhat is it for • ØStrategy and environment • ØOrganizational structure models • ØHybrid setups • ØExternal relations • ØThe organization of work • ØManaging people • ØManagement systems ØOrganizational change • ØDesign and manage it
The reference text is Organizational design. Principles and methods for the adequacy of the company organizational structure by Richard M. Burton, Borge Obel, Dorthe Dojbak Hakonsson, Marcello Martinez
Ricevimento: Students can contact the teacher by e-mail to fix a meeting
TERESINA TORRE (President)
ANGELO GASPARRE
LORENZO MIZZAU (Substitute)
ALBERTO MONTI (Substitute)
The exam is written and consists in three questions regarding the program
It will be considered the the consistency of the response, the accuracy and precision of the language.
Students who have valid certification of disability or Specific Learning Desorders (DSA) on file with the University may request the use of compensatory measures during the exams (e.g. additional time, concept maps, modifications in the written/oral mode), following the guidelines (p. 5) published here. In any case, for further information, please contact the Department’s disability liaison: Isa.Fanlo@unige.it
