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Organizational Design

Type of study BachelorFollow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 157-0326/04
Abbreviation ORPR
Course title Organizational Design
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Systems Engineering and Informatics
Course coordinator Ing. Blanka Bazsová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Content of lectures:
1. Basic concepts and importance of organizational design. Methodological principles and approaches to
organizational design.
2. Model and computer support for organizational design. Software products, description, structure.
3. Model and computer support for the analysis of factors influencing the organization's structuring.
Size, age, surroundings, strategy, technology, structure, globalization.
4. Formal organizational structures. Characteristics of individual forms, their advantages and
disadvantages.
5. Objectives of organizational planning and the structure of organizational planning. Approaches to
setting goals. Organizational design as a decision-making process.
6. Organizational diagnosis. Goals, focus, basic stages, methods.
7. Designing organizational positions and organizational units. Specialization of work, formalization of
behavior, education and training.
8. Dimensions of decision-making delegation. Centralization, decentralization, the issue of delegation.
9. Organizational and management standards, their meaning and creation.
10. Social climate and culture of the organization.
11. Human resources and its relationship to organizing. Activities of the personnel department. Methods
and approaches to employee evaluation. Significance in the creation of organizational measures.
12. Human resources and its relationship to business strategy. Human Resource Management. Methods and
approaches to workers compensation.
13. Organizing processes. Process organization methods and models. Model and computer support for process
analysis and design.
14. Evaluation of the organization's performance. Approaches to performance appraisal.

Literature

GRIFFIN, Ricky W.; PHILLIPS, Jean a GULLY, Stanley Morris. Organizational behavior: managing people and organizations. 13E. Boston: Cengage, 2020. 576 s. ISBN 978-0-357-04250-2 .
BURKE, Wyatt Warner. Organization change: theory and practice. 2nd ed. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, c2008. 335 s. ISBN 978-1-4129-2670-6.
ROBBINS, Stephen P. a JUDGE, Tim. Organizational behavior. Edition 16. Always learning. Boston: Pearson, 2015. ISBN 978-1-292-05655-5.

Advised literature

DONNELLY, James. H., James, L. GIBSON and John, M. IVANCEVICH. Management. Praha: Grada Publishing, 1997. 821 s. ISBN 80-7169-422-3.
GRAEME, Martin. Managing People and Organizations in Changing contexts. Netherlands: Elsevier Ltd., 2006. 425 s. ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8000-4.
BELLEFLAMME, Paul a PEITZ, Martin. Industrial organization: markets and strategies. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 799 s. ISBN 978-1-107-06997-8.