Designing Competitive Organizations

The course presents various theories of organizational designs in a behavioral approach to organizational effectiveness.  The focus is on organizational types, effectiveness, competitiveness, and efficiency. It explores internal and external factors that have a positive or negative impact on achieving organizational goals. The course evaluates the ever-changing modern work environment and the effectiveness of a well-designed organization. 

CAVEAT: No graduate credit will be awarded if MGT3172 has been successfully completed.

PREREQUISITE: Management principles course or the equivalent.

UPON COMPLETION OF THE COURSE, THE STUDENT WILL BE COMPETENT IN:

• Executing a strategy for managing interdepartmental goal conflict.
• Evaluating leading organizational concepts for effective organizational structure and processes.
• Designing a systems approach to organizational design.
• Reviewing the processes of integrating individual and organizational goals.
• Defining and reconciling the types and critical dimensions of contemporary organizational environments.
• Planning organizational strategies to sustain and grow the organization.
• Classifying and assessing the effectiveness of organizational types.
• Investigating the cause-and-effect relationships within organizations.
• Exploring motivational theories and their application to modern organizations.
• Evaluating the structure-specific job/work assignments within multigenerational workforces.
• Understanding the importance and function of internal and external audits.
• Analyzing the SWOT analysis, applications, and its impact on an organization.