157-0426/03 – Designing Organizations (ORPR)
| Gurantor department | Department of Systems Engineering and Informatics | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Blanka Bazsová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Blanka Bazsová, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory type B |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Bachelor, Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The goal of the subject is to discuss the methodological foundations related to the organization design, to identify organization problems, suggest the organisation structure and evaluate organisation measures. Students will gain required knowledge in the area of creating organization positions, organization system and approaches to the staff assessment.
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Summary
The course explains terminology based on the theory of organization. It explains the advantages and disadvantages of both traditional and modern organizational structures and the essence of their creation. It focuses on the identification of organizational problems and possibilities of their solution using organizational design. Particular attention is devoted to the problems associated with the creation of an appropriate organizational structure and the long-term performance of the organization as a whole.
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Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
The course is finished with an exam. Credits are based on project processing and its presentation. The exam consists of two parts - written and oral.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Basic concepts and importance of organizational design. Methodological issues of organizational design, organizational approaches to design.
2. Models and software support of organizational design. Software products, describtion and structure.
3. Model and computer aided analysis of factors influencing the structuring of the organization, size, age, environment, strategy, technology, structure, globalization.
4. Formal organizational structures. Characteristics of each form, adventages, disadventages.
5. The objectives of organizational design. Approaches to the goals setting.
6. Structure of organizational design. Organizational design as a decision-making process.
7. Organizational diagnostics. Objectives, scope, foundation stages, methods.
8. Designing organizational positions. Specialization of labor, formalization of behavior, education and training.
9. Designing organizational units. Principles in their work, to determine their size.
10. Dimension delegating decision-making. Centralization, decentralization, delegation issues.
11. The dimensions of formalization. Organizational and management standards, their importance and creating.
12. Structural configuration. Simple organizational structure, machinery, professional bureaucracy, divisional form hybrids.
13. Human resources management and its relationship to the organization. Methods and approaches to the employee assessment. The importance of developing organizational measures.
14. Organizing processes. Methods and models of organizing processes. Model and computer aided analysis and design processes.
Conditions for subject completion
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