Professional Documents
Culture Documents
COURSE OVERVIEW:
TARGET AUDIENCE:
• All managers and professionals and specialist who work in any area of
HR
• All specialists in HR who work in Organisation Design and Organisation
Effectiveness
• All specialists in HR who work in Compensation and Rewards and/or
Performance Management
• All HR Business Partners (HRBPs) who get involved in Organisation
Design and Structural Analysis
• All managers from any functional area that need to know about Struc-
tural Analysis
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
By end of this course, participant are expected to:
COURSE OUTLINES:
MODULE 1: Organizational Structure
- Structure and decision making
- formalization
- Structure and strategy
- Organizational structure: pyramids, cells & networks; Bottlenecks
- Decision making: authority gradient (hierarchy)
- Divisionalization (vertical, horizontal, functional)
MODULE 2: Organizational design
- Design process.
- Design essentials: size, product/service scope, geographical coverage,
technology and organizational culture.
- Three levels of design: functional, divisional and plant
- Product scope and geographical coverage - market selection
MODULE 3: Organizational size
- Organizational size: small firms (cottage industry); Large firms (one domi-
nant firm vs one large number small plants).
- Small business development
- Making the business case for small business development
- Financial and economic considerations
- Social and environmental contributions
- Creating a business case: market selection
- Business flexibility
- The role of government.
MODULE 4: Organizational design for community development
- Business models (for-profit, non-profit, public sector).
- Networking organizations – supply chains & social networks.
- Collaborative networks – formalized vs informal relationships.
MODULE 5: Organizational culture
- Culture - shared assumptions, values and norms;
- Organizational culture: levels (national vs local),
- impact on performance; Cultural change.
MODULE 6: Control systems
- Approaches to control;
- Management by exceptions;
- Centralized vs decentralized control; Monitoring performance.
MODULE 7: Leadership & Politics in Organizations
- Politics - internal and external
- Leadership; Political behaviour: individual & group
- Personal & political power.