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Terminated in academic year 2012/2013

Designing Organizations

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 157-0426/01
Abbreviation ORPR
Course title Designing Organizations
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Systems Engineering and Informatics
Course coordinator Ing. Blanka Bazsová, Ph.D.

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.


Literature

BLAŽEK, Ladislav. Management. Organizování, rozhodování, ovlivňování. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2011. 191 s. ISBN 978-80-247-3275-6.
BAZSOVÁ, Blanka, Anna KŘÍŽOVÁ a Petr ŘEHÁČEK. Teorie organizace. Přístupy, metody, nástroje, softwarová podpora. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2015. 176 s. ISBN 978-80-248-3790-1.
GRAEME, Martin. Managing People and Organizations in Changing contexts. Netherlands: Elsevier Ltd., 2006. 425 s. ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8000-4.

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.
LUKÁŠOVÁ, Růžena. Organizační kultura a její změna. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2010. 240 s. ISBN 978-80-247-2951-0.