Organisational Design: Agility and Sustainability
LMC603B
Overview
To enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into a course from the provider.
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Level of study: What does Postgraduate mean?
Postgraduate
EFTSL: What does EFTSL mean?
0.125
Delivery Method: What does delivery method mean?
Fully Online
Prerequisites: What are the prerequisites?
Duration:
13 weeks
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Domestic student fee:
$2,000.00 (AUD)
International student fee:
$2,225.00 (AUD)
Description
This unit aims to help students critique organisational design through conceptualising organisations as dynamic entities that respond to shifting stakeholder pressures. Students will critique organisational boundaries, forms and structures, decision-making processes, complex adaptive systems, innovation models and communication systems to promote organisational agility in complex and fast moving environments. This unit raises contemporary issues such as organisational responses to sustainability challenges, building collaborative capability, conflict, power and politics, and the strategic value of social networking.
Enrolment Restriction
In order to enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into one of the following courses:
- Graduate Diploma of Technology (Business Systems)
- Master of Technology (Business Systems)
- Graduate Certificate of Commerce
- Graduate Diploma of Commerce
- Master of Commerce
If you wish to seek approval to enrol in this unit without being accepted in a course, please contact OUA regarding the process.
Prerequisites
Equivalent units
You cannot enrol in this unit if you have successfully completed any of the following unit(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
- LMC603 — Organisational Design for Learning and Business Sustainability
Assessment
- Online Discussion — Group discussion (10%-30%)
- Project — Case-based project (30%-50%)
- Report — Individual report (30%-50%)
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this unit students will be able to:
- explain how organisational design assists coordination of activities in an organisation, delivers information to decision makers and supports the application of this knowledge in the workplace
- critique generic forms of organisational design and their capacity to facilitate agile responsiveness
- critique the benefits of supportive cultures and dynamic organisational design in responding to sustainability challenges
- critique innovation models as organisational design elements and apply these skills and knowledge to workplace learning
- critically apply design concepts as decision-making frameworks for stakeholder management and alignment.
Topics
This unit addresses the following topics.
| Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | The importance of organisational design for sustainable business practice |
| 2 | Organisation theory and design: towards the reconfigurable organisation |
| 3 | Organisation design factors |
| 4 | Organisation structure and forms |
| 5 | Complexity perspectives around organisational design |
| 6 | Decision-making in complexity |
| 7 | The RBV and project organisation for fast and flexible knowledge organisation |
| 8 | Leading and managing for effective organisation learning |
| 9 | Organisational agility and social computing. |
| 10 | Innovation models |
| 11 | Innovation and organisational culture |
| 12 | Building collaborative capability |
| 13 | Conflict, power and politics |
Study Resources
This unit is delivered using the following methods and materials:
Instructional Methods
- Audio/Video conferencing
- Blogs
- Chat rooms
- Discussion Forum/Discussion Board
- E-Portfolios
- Embedded Multimedia
- Glossary
- Online assignment submission
- Podcasting/Lecture capture
- Standard Media
- Streaming Multimedia
- Web links
- Wikis
Textbook information for this unit is currently being updated and will be available soon. Please check back regularly for updates. Alternatively, visit the Unibooks website and enter the unit details to search for available textbooks.
Relevant Courses
This unit is a core requirement in the following courses:
This unit is an approved elective in the following courses:
- Graduate Diploma of Technology (Business Systems), Swinburne University of Tnlgy
- Master of Technology (Business Systems), Swinburne University of Tnlgy
- Graduate Diploma of Commerce, Swinburne University of Tnlgy
- Master of Commerce, Swinburne University of Tnlgy
This unit may be eligible for credit towards other courses:
- Many undergraduate courses on offer through OUA include 'open elective' where any OUA unit can be credited to the course. You need to check the Award Requirements on the course page for the number of allowed open electives and any level limitations.
- In other cases, the content of this unit might be relevant to a course on offer through OUA or elsewhere. In order to receive credit for this unit in the course you will need to supply the provider institution with a copy of the Unit Profile in the approved format, which you can download here. Note that the Unit Profile is set at the start of the year, and if textbooks change this may not match the Unibooks textbook list.
