Organisational design: Know your organisation
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Course Summary
This course teaches students how to design and understand their organization for better productivity and efficiency. It covers topics such as organizational structure, culture, and strategy.Key Learning Points
- Learn how to analyze and design organizational structures
- Understand the relationship between culture and organizational design
- Learn how to align strategy with organizational design
Job Positions & Salaries of people who have taken this course might have
- USA: $90,000
- India: ₹5,500,000
- Spain: €55,000
- USA: $90,000
- India: ₹5,500,000
- Spain: €55,000
- USA: $120,000
- India: ₹7,500,000
- Spain: €70,000
- USA: $90,000
- India: ₹5,500,000
- Spain: €55,000
- USA: $120,000
- India: ₹7,500,000
- Spain: €70,000
- USA: $80,000
- India: ₹4,500,000
- Spain: €45,000
Related Topics for further study
- Organizational structure
- Organizational culture
- Strategic alignment
- Performance management
- Change management
Learning Outcomes
- Ability to analyze and design organizational structures
- Understanding of the relationship between culture and organizational design
- Ability to align strategy with organizational design
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- Basic understanding of organizational behavior
- Familiarity with business strategy
Course Difficulty Level
IntermediateCourse Format
- Self-paced
- Online
- Video lectures
- Assignments
Similar Courses
- Innovation and Design Thinking
- Leadership and Management
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Description
How do you lead your organisation when today’s work environment is so competitive and complex? When you become responsible for leading an organisation, your most important leadership challenge will be enabling your organisation to deliver on its strategy while ensuring it remains sufficiently agile. This course will prepare you to tackle this challenge. You will examine what organisational culture is, the primary organisational structures, and what we mean by ‘systems’, before building on your foundational knowledge and taking a more strategic perspective. The structured learning activities that complement this course (video lectures, quizzes, discussion prompts and written assessments) will not only prepare you to take your organisation forward in a more strategic direction, but to make better decisions along the way.
Knowledge
- Define the key organisational capabilities required for a firm’s positioning strategy as the anchoring point for leading an organisation
- Assess the degree of alignment between key capabilities and organisational architecture (culture, structure, people practices, systems)
- Identify the organisational misalignment issues that a leader should prioritize and focus their change plan on
- Develop and present concrete, suitable, and feasible organisational change recommendations that can resolve organisational misalignment issues
Outline
- Organisational alignment
- Course welcome and introduction
- Week 1 outline
- Organisational alignment
- The importance of key capabilities
- How to identify key capabilities
- Value chain analysis
- Habit corner 1
- Course overview
- Introduce yourself
- Explore Further Resources 1
- Practice task: Elements of organisational culture
- Practice task: Organisational alignment
- About the habit corner
- Recall: Organisational alignment
- Week 1 quiz
- Organisational culture
- Week 2 outline
- What is organisational culture?
- Why organisational culture is important
- Types of organisational culture
- Levers of cultural change
- Explore further resources 2
- Practice task: Organisational culture
- Practice task: Analysing organisational culture, strategic fit and cultural change
- Recall: Organisational culture
- Week 2 quiz
- Organisational structure
- Week 3 outline
- Key trade-offs in organisational structure
- Types of organisational structure
- Advantages and disadvantages of different structure types
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- Practice task: Organisational structure
- Practice task: Trade-offs
- Recall organisational structure
- Week 3 quiz
- Organisational control systems
- Week 4 outline
- The four types of control systems
- The balanced score card
- Explore further resources 4
- Practice task: Organisational control systems pt 1
- Practice task: Organisational control systems pt 2
- Recall: Organisational control systems
- Week 4 quiz
- Strategic human resource management (HRM)
- Week 5 outline
- A strategic approach to HRM
- Strategic workforce segmentation
- Apply a strategic workforce segmentation diagnostic tool
- Explore further resources 5
- Practice task: Strategic HRM
- Practice task: Applying strategic human resource management
- Recall: Strategic HRM
- Week 5 quiz
- From organisational alignment diagnosis to solutions
- Week 6 outline
- From critical issues to possible solutions
- Risk assessment of proposed solutions
- Practice task: Diagnosis to solution
- Practice task: Wrapping up
- Recall: Diagnosis to solutions
- Week 6 quiz
Summary of User Reviews
Discover the principles and methods of Organizational Design with Coursera's online course. Users have given positive feedback on the comprehensive nature of the course material and the practical applications of the knowledge gained. However, some users have raised concerns about the time commitment required and the level of difficulty.Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course
The course covers a wide range of topics related to organizational design, providing a comprehensive understanding and practical application of the subject matter.Pros from User Reviews
- Comprehensive coverage of organizational design topics
- Practical applications of knowledge gained
- Experienced instructors with industry expertise
- Opportunities for collaborative learning and networking
- Flexible schedule and self-paced learning
Cons from User Reviews
- Time commitment required for the course
- Difficulty level may be challenging for some learners
- Limited interaction with instructors
- Some technical issues reported by users
- Lack of personalized feedback
Professor Jaco Lok
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