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Organisational Design: Agility and Sustainability
Postgraduate | SWI-MGT70005 | 2018
Highlight how an organisation can be flexible in the face of external pressure. Probe organisational boundaries, forms and structures. Weigh up networking’s strategic value. Grasp how conflict, power and politics can demand an organisational response.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- -
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Organisational Design: Agility and Sustainability
About this subject
Students who successfully complete this subject will be able to:
- Apply advanced and coherent knowledge of organisational design and knowledge in the workplace
- Critically analyse generic forms of organisational design and their capacity to facilitate agile responsiveness
- Critically analyse dynamic organisational design in responding to sustainability challenges
- Critically analyse innovation models as organisational design elements and apply these skills and knowledge to workplace learning
- Communicate proficiently in professional practice to a variety of audiences, function as an effective member or leader within a diverse team.
- The importance of organisational design for sustainable business practice
- Organisation theory and design: towards the reconfigurable organisation
- Organisation design factors
- Organisation structure and forms
- Complexity perspectives around organisational design
- Decision-making in complexity
- The RBV and project organisation for fast and flexible knowledge organisation
- Leading and managing for effective organisation learning
- Organisational agility and social computing
- Innovation models
- Innovation and organisational culture
- Building collaborative capability
- Conflict, power and politics
This subject 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, collaborative practice, decision-making processes, complex adaptive systems, innovation models and communication systems to promote organisational agility in complex and fast moving environments. This subject raises contemporary issues such as organisational responses to sustainability challenges, building collaborative capability, conflict, power and politics and the strategic value of networking.
- Case Study — Individual (30-40%)
- Group Discussion Board Task (20-30%)
- Project — Individual (30-50%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
SWI-LMC603B (Not currently available)
SWI-LMC603 (Not currently available)
Others
Do not enrol into this subject if you have completed LMC603.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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