OVERVIEW

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..

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

TEACHING METHODS

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

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

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

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

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

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

TERESINA TORRE (President)

ANGELO GASPARRE

LORENZO MIZZAU (Substitute)

ALBERTO MONTI (Substitute)

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam is written and consists in three questions regarding the program

ASSESSMENT METHODS

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

Exam schedule