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Organizational Design

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Course Unit Code157-0326/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
VRA31Ing. Blanka Bazsová, Ph.D.
Summary
Students will gain required knowledge in the area of creating organization positions, organization system and approaches to the staff assessment.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The goal of the subject is to discuss the methodological foundations related to the organization design, to identify organization problems,suggest the organisation structure and evaluate organisation measures.
Course Contents
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.





Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
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.
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.
CEJTHAMR, Václav a Jiří DĚDINA. Management a organizační chování. 2. vyd. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2010. 352 s. ISBN 978-80-247-3348-7.
DONNELLY, James. H., James, L. GIBSON and John, M. IVANCEVICH. Management. Praha: Grada Publishing, 1997. 821 s. ISBN 80-7169-422-3.

Recommended Reading:
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.
DĚDINA, Jiří a Jiří ODCHÁZEL. Management a moderní organizování firmy. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2007. 324 s. ISBN 978-80-247-2149-1.
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.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Exercises evaluation and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        Exercises evaluationCredit45 (45)23
                ProjectProject45 23
        ExaminationExamination55 (55)28
                Written examinationWritten examination40 18
                OralOral examination15 10