| Course Status : | Completed |
| Course Type : | Core |
| Language for course content : | English |
| Duration : | 8 weeks |
| Category : |
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| Credit Points : | 2 |
| Level : | Postgraduate |
| Start Date : | 23 Jan 2023 |
| End Date : | 17 Mar 2023 |
| Enrollment Ends : | 06 Feb 2023 |
| Exam Registration Ends : | 20 Feb 2023 |
| Exam Date : | 26 Mar 2023 IST |
Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.
Week 2: Introduction:
What's It All About (contd.)
Organizational Effectiveness (Importance of organizational effectiveness, The
goal-attainment approach, The systems approach, The strategic-constituencies
approach, The competing-values approach, Comparing the four approaches); Dimensions of Organization Structure (Complexity,
Formalization)
Week 3: The
Determinants: What Causes Structure
Strategy (What is strategy, types of
strategy, Classifying strategic dimensions, Chandler’s strategy-structure
thesis, Contemporary strategy-structure theory, Limitations to the strategy
imperative, Could strategy follow structure, The industry-structure relationship);
Organization Size (Defining
organization size, Advocates and critics of the size imperative, Special issues
relating to size)
Week 4: The
Determinants: What Causes Structure (contd.)
Technology (Influence of industry and
size, The common denominator: Routineness, Work-unit level versus
organizational level, Manufacturing versus service technologies, Technology and
structure); Environment (Defining
environment and environmental uncertainty, The environmental imperative,
Environment-structure relationship); Power-Control
(Strategic choice, Synthesizing power control view, Implications based on the
power-control view)
Week 5: Organizational
Design: Choosing the Right Structural Form
Organizational
Design Options (Case for standard configurations, Common elements in organizations,
Simple structure, Machine bureaucracy, Divisional structure, Adhocracy); Bureaucracy: A Closer Look (Weber’s
bureaucracy, dysfunctional consequences of bureaucracy)
Week 6: Organizational
Design: Choosing the Right Structural Form (contd.)
Bureaucracy: A
Closer Look – contd. (Is bureaucracy a structural dinosaur?, Bureaucracies are everywhere); Adhocracy: A Closer Look (The matrix,
Theory Z, Collateral form, Network structure, Other examples of adhocracy)
Week 7: Applications:
Contemporary Issues In Organization Theory
Managing the
Environment (Management’s
quest to control its environment, Internal strategies, External strategies,
Guidelines for managing the environment);
Managing Organizational Change (Planned change and structural change, A
model for managing organizational change, The innovating organization,
Descriptive view of organizational change);
Managing Organizational Conflict (Defining conflict, Conflict and
organizational effectiveness, Sources of organizational conflict)
Week 8: Applications:
Contemporary Issues In Organization Theory (contd.)
Managing
Organizational Conflict – contd. (Resolution techniques, Stimulation techniques); Managing Organizational Culture (Defining
organizational culture, Culture and organizational effectiveness, Culture: A
substitute for formalization?, Creating, sustaining and transmitting culture,
When cultures collide: mergers and acquisitions, Are cultures manageable?); Managing Organizational Evolution (Managing
organizational growth and organizational decline)
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