ORGANIZATION DESIGN

ORGANIZATION DESIGN
AREA OF STUDY: CORE
BAC230

Year: 4
Semester: 7

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* Continuous
** Duration: 3 hours

Course Objectives
The course aims at providing sound understanding of the process and systems of organization design and implementation in various organizations.
Course Contents
1. Introduction T. H. 6
Basic concepts of organization and organizing, organization design and structure; Organizational effectiveness; Dimensions of organizational structure; Organization theory vs organization design and organization behavior.
2. Determinants of Organizational Structure T. H. 12
Strategy: Meaning, types, dimensions advocacies, and critics of organizational strategies: Organization Size: Meaning, advocacies, and critics of organizational size: Technology: Meaning, importance, and impact of technology in organizational structure. Environment: Meaning, importance, classifications (general vs specific and actual vs perceived), and environmental uncertainties; Power-Control: Problems and prospects underlying the strategic choices, contingency perspectives, authority, and complexity of structures.
3. Establishing the Right Structure T. H. 9
Design Options: Designing simple structure, machine bureaucracy professional bureaucracy and divisional structure: Bureaucracy: Introducing Weber's perspective of bureaucracy, functional and dysfunctional bureaucracy, virtual organizations vs bureaucracy; Adhocracy: Meaning importance and types of adhocracy; creating matrix organizations; implementing theory Z at workplaces.
4. Management of Organizational Design and Change T.H. 15
Meaning of environment: assessment of internal and external stakeholders, and establishment of effective strategies to respond to the environment; Meaning of change: meaning, importance and selected models of organizational change and innovation. Managing of conflict: meaning, importance and type of organizational conflicts; managing conflicts; effectively; Meaning of culture; meaning and importance: impact of culture in organizational effectiveness; creating, sustaining and transmitting effective organizational culture; Meaning of evaluation; meaning and importance of organizational growth: decline-a setback to growth.
5. Issues Governing Organizational design and implementation T. H. 6
Influences of political-legal, economic, socio-cultural, technological and international issues in designing and implementing organizational systems.
Text books
1. Robbins, S. P. (2003), Organization Theory Structure, Design and Applications (3rd Ed.), Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi.
2. Khandwalla, P. N (1998), Organizational Designs for Excellence (4th Reprint), Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi.