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ECUE Organizational design and behavior

ECUE's code : IPEODB

This course belong to UE Economics & management 4 (6 ECTS) which contains 5 ECUE
PORTAIL ECONOMIE GESTION
Sciences de gestion et du management
Campus Saint Jean d'Angély
Licence 2
Semestre pair
Anglais

PRESENTATION

Welcome to the "Organisational Design and Behaviour" course! 

Proper organisational structure and design are essential to improve and enhance communication, sustainability and innovation which are some of the crucial aspects of a successful organisation.  Hence, creating an environment in which people can work effectively remains challenging for organisations.

This course is an introduction to organisational theories and in particular to organisational design and behaviour. It aims at discussing organisational architectures and the challenges associated with them, concerning the everchanging environment and thus a critical need for change

One of the challenges and at the same time the facilitators for a modern organisation is the pre-eminence of innovative mobile Information and Communication Technologies (mICT). Not only does mICT enable innovative ways to produce and distribute goods and services more efficiently, but it also facilitates the innovation processes bringing new problem-solving ideas into use.

This course will provide some answers to these new challenges through an overview of the most influential theoretical perspectives & techniques through the lenses of empirical approaches.  

Therefore, this course represents an excellent opportunity to initiate you into an in-depth understanding of organisational thinking by looking at the timeline of history and its effects on today’s business world and the one of tomorrow. 

Course's manager(s)

Saijal Vats

In class

  • 6h of lectures

Distant

  • 14h of lectures

PREREQUISITES

Before the start of the course, I must ...
  • This course requires the understanding of an intermediate level of English.
  • Students should have attended introductory classes in management (1st year)

OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course, I should be able to...
  • Be familiar and use the vocabulary in terms of concepts, main theoretical foundations and theory founders that are specific to the discipline
  • Have an in-depth knowledge of the most influential organisational theories
  • Be familiar with the main challenges & evolutions of organisational theories
  • Specify different organisational structures and architectures
  • Understand the interrelations between control and coordination in diverse organisational designs
  • Explain how organisation theories contribute to nowadays and future organisational management
  • Expose some new organisational challenges induced by new mICT
  • Understand, explain and apply different theories studied in class to real-world contemporary organisations

CONTENT

  • An english test will be available soon to auto-evaluate your understanding of english during this class.

  • At the end of part 1, watch the video and make sure you are able to list and discuss the main organizational theories studied in class. You can also answer the short test to position yourself.

  • Part 2 describes the main challenges of organizational design. Some readings for understanding business case-studies will be provided here.

  • Part 3 illustrates the notion of organizational structures and introduced different coordination mechanisms. Watch the online video and make sure you manage to link its content with part 3.

  • Part 4 is the final part of this 20 hours course and introduces the technological dimension in our understanding of organizational design.

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