ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN & STRUCTURING

COURSE OVERVIEW:

The aim of this course is to provide best-practice Organisational Design and

Structural Analysis techniques that would help an organisation conduct a
“right-size and right-shape” project. This course will focus on the key princi-
ples of organisation design, and its relationship with manpower planning and
explore some common manpower metrics. We will also focus on the determi-
nation of job grade and organisational level for each position in order to en-
able gap analysis and span analysis.
Conducting an organisation design review with structural analysis is a funda-
mental starting point for all other HR activities, and after the organisation
structures have been reviewed, then each job in the proposed structures
should be evaluated and sized to determine the correct internal grade within
the new grade structure.
Ultimately this will enable an organisation to attract, retain and motivate the
calibre of employees required for successful and sustained business perfor-
mance.

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:

• Gain an understanding of best practice Organisational Design and

Structural Analysis techniques to conduct an analytical “right-size and
right-shape” project
• Learn key principles of practical organisation design and the relation-
ship of organisational design with manpower planning
• Focus on the importance of job grade and organisational level for each
position

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.