Managing Organizations

• Coursera:Designing the Organization: From Strategy to Organizational Structure   &  Managing the Organization: From Organizational Design to Execution
• Illinois Catalog BADM 509: MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS
• Offered in Spring Term (Jan-May)

This course is part of the Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization.

Course Description

The main objective of this course is to introduce the basic concepts, frameworks, and tools necessary for understanding, designing, and leading today’s organizations. The course emphasizes those aspects of organizations that produce the necessary organizational capital such as their structures, history, human resource practices, and decision making processes and how managers use this capital to create value. The course is built around four fundamental questions about designing and managing organizations:

– How do managers create value through their organizations?
– What is the relationship between managers and their constituencies in governing the organization?
– What are some of the basic contingencies and principles of designing the overall structure of the organization?
– How should managers design the coordination, control, and performance measurement systems to effectively manage their critical resources that can lead to successful implementation of their business strategies?

Instructor

Course Goals and Objectives

• Understand ways by which managers create value through their organizations
• Identify and analyze some of the basic factors that should be taken into account in designing your organization.
• Recognize and select some of the fundamental principles that you will consider in designing the overall structure of your organization.
• Analyze practices in organization design and assess its effectiveness. Make decisions about changes to improve.
• Determine how to improve managerial decision making and analyze how you can shape your organizational culture by designing effective human resource management practices.
• Perform effectively and lead discussions in a virtual team environment.

Topics of this course

• Module 1: Corporate Governance and the Role of Managers in Value Creation
• Module 2: Environment of Organizations: External and Internal Contingencies
• Module 3: Organization Design – Differentiation
• Module 4: Organization Design – Integration: Coordination and Control
• Module 5: Organizational Life-Cycle – Innovation, Change and Redesign
• Module 6: Managerial Decision Making and Organization Design
• Module 7: Managing Human Resources – Building Culture and Identity in Organizations
• Module 8: Top Management Teams, Managerial Succession and Organizational Consequences

Course Materials

• There is no required textbook for this course. There are required and supplemental readings that you will be able to access through the University Library e-Reserve system at no cost. Other readings from Harvard Business Publishing are free for online readings, there may be a cost if you want to print or download. Links to all required readings will be found in the weekly agendas.

Live Session Schedule (Tentative)

March 29th, 2017 – May 23rd, 2017

Course Elements

This course will come to you through two online platforms – (1) the Illinois Compass2g course management system, which will be your main point of contact as students registered for University of Illinois graduate course credit, and (2) Coursera’s platform where you will register and complete two courses taught by me:

• Designing the Organization: From Strategy to Organizational Structure and
• Managing the Organization: From Organizational Design to Execution

This eight-week course is organized by weekly modules and in every week you will find course content and assignments as listed below.