LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at introducing students to the main issues of organizational design and behavior.

Teaching methods

Lectures and case analysis

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

• Aims and methods of organizational analysis
• People in organizations: personality, values, behaviour
• Design choice and organizational architectures
• Organizational culture and cultural diversity
• Perception, action and organizational identity
• Rationality in organizational action and decision processes
• Teamwork and teamwork issues
• Organizational knowledge and internal communication
• Power and leadership
• Motivation and organizational performance
• Conflict and negotiation
• Organizational change

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Attending students are required to study the following Italian textbook, chapter by chapter: G. Salvemini, 2017, Organizzazione aziendale, Egea, Milano (except from Introduction and chapters 4, 7, 13 e 16). Foreign non-attending students, however, may have an independent study of the subject by taking one of the following very different textbooks:

• Richard Daft, Organization Theory and Design, any edition.
• Gareth Morgan, Images of Organization, any edition.
• Herbert Simon, Administrative Behavior, any edition.

Exam Board

ANGELO GASPARRE (President)

TERESINA TORRE

LORENZO MIZZAU

Teaching methods

Lectures and case analysis

LESSONS START

Sem: 2

February, 27th - June, 1st 2017

ORARI

ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN AND BEHAVIOR B

Exam description

Written exam (3 open questions, 45 min.)

Exam schedule