Organizational Design
Learn the fundamentals of organizational design and authority in this comprehensive course. Discover how to tackle challenges and find the right balance between centralization and decentralization, mechanistic and organic structures, and standardization and mutual adjustment. Explore the impact of tall hierarchies and the potential problems they can pose. Gain insights into various organizational structures, from functional to divisional, and even network and hybrid structures. Perfect for business students and managers looking to expand their expertise. Enroll now and enhance your understanding of organizational success.
What you’ll learn
- Analyze design of organizations around them.
- Solve basic challenges regarding authority and control in organizations.
- Recognise various organizational structures.
One of the most basic building blocks of organizational success is appropriate organizational design. What do we mean by that? It is the design of authority and responsibility. One should always know who is his/her manager and who are the subordinates. But is it that easy?
In the first part of the course, we will talk about basic challenges in organizational design, which are mostly about finding the right balance. Hence, we will try to belance centralization vs decentralization, mechanistic vs organic structure, and standardization vs mutual adjustment. This approach states that all of the previously mentioned balance choices should be tailored to the sources of uncertainty that our organization is facing.
In the second part of the course we will lay focus on the design of authority in organizations. We will talk especially about tall hierarchies – which are the ones with many organizational levels. These can have serious problems as will be displayed in Parkinson´s Law Problem.
Finally, we will get to concrete organizational structures that our organization can understake. We will begin with the most basic functional structure which later on evolves to one of divisional structures. We will cover the main ones here as each posseses specific characteristics. After all, we will bring some interesting ones such as network, hybrid or network structure. Looking forward to see you inside!
Who this course is for:
- Business students.
- Managers seeking enlarging their scope of expertise.
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