Organisational Design: Structuring and Restructuring Organisations (Brussels)

Course Contents, Concepts and Issues

• An Introduction to Organisational Design
• Approaches to Organisational Design
• Classical Organisational Design
• Neo-Classical Organisational Design
• Classical Approach to Organisational Design
• Scientific Management to Organisational Design
• Humanistic Approach to Organisational Design
• Mechanistic Approach to Organisational Design
• Human Relations Movement
• Contingency Approaches to Organisational Design.
• Organisational Structure and Internal and External Relationships
• Levels of Control and Role Specificity
• Mechanistic and Organismic Structures and Their Types of Relationships
• A Case In Point: The Mechanistic Factory Setting
• Vertical Relationships in Organisational Design
• Horizontal Relationships in Organisational Design
• Lines of Authority and Accountability in Organisational Design
• Types of Organisational Structure
• The Simple Structure
• The Functional Structure
• The Divisional Structure and Its Internal Relationships
• Bases of Divisionalisation
• Product Divisional Structure
• Service Divisional Structure
• Geographic or Regional Divisional Structure
• The Matrix Structure
• Divisional Matrix Structure
• Functional Matrix Structure
• Customised Matrices
• The Divisional Structure Compared with the Functional Structure on the Basis of:
• Communication,
• Co-Ordination,
• Worker Autonomy,
• Organisational Control
• Organisational Flexibility
• The Organisation of the Matrix Structure
• Decision-Making and Communication Patterns in Functional Structures
• Decision-Making and Communication Patterns in Divisional Structure
• Decision-Making and Communication Patterns in Matrix Structures
• Structural Contingency
• The Interrelationship between Organisational Design and International Business
• The Place of the Divisional Structure in International Operations
• Identifying and Designing Organisational Structures