Core Course: Organisation Structure and Design

Objective:

• Organization structure and design are keys to effective functioning of organizations and organisational effectiveness. The associated tool and techniques facilitate us to appreciate organizations, more deeply and comprehensively than one otherwise would. This is largely based upon patterns and regularities in organization design and performance.

Detailed Curriculum:

• Introduction, evolution and overview;
• organisational effectiveness;
• foundations of organisation structure;
• designing individual positions;
• designing the super structure;
• fleshing out the super structure;
• untangling decentralisation;
• fitting structure to strategy;
• fitting structure to size and age;
• fitting structure to technical system;
• fitting structure to environment;
• fitting structure to power control domain;
• simple structure;
• machine bureaucracy;
• professional bureaucracy;
• divisional form;
• adhocracy;
• five organisational forms as a system.