82151 - Business Organization Lab

Learning outcomes

The target of the course is to provide students the occasion to experiment the knowledges in the organizational field with a particular focus for human resources management and related contractual - administrative fulfillments. At the end of the course the student will be able to: - know to understand the problematics connected to human resources management in its applicative aspects; - know to analyze the administrative aspects related to contractual fulfillments; - to use software dedicated to human resources management.

Course contents

1. Structures and Processes
2. Coordination
3. An Ecology of Organizations
4. Organizational Species
5. Organizational Design
   

Readings/Bibliography

This course is based on lecture notes.

Please beware that this directory entails a NetLogo tutorial that will be used in the 10 hrs to be spent in the computer lab. The content of this tutorial will not be asked at the exam.

Teaching methods

This course spans 40 hrs teaching. Teaching consists of:

• 30 hrs front teaching of theoretical issues;
• 10 hrs training in the computer lab.
  

The exam focuses on the concepts illustrated in the 30 hrs teaching. Training in the computer lab enables students to develop ICT skills that are not linked to the exam.

Assessment methods

HENCEFORTH, THE NORMAL ARRANGEMENT OF EXAMS BEFORE AND AFTER COVID-19. PLEASE READ THE SECTION "AVVISI" FOR EMERGENCY ARRANGEMENTS.

The exam takes half an hour. It's a written exam consisting of 10 multiple-choice questions arranged in 2 series of 5 questions each. Each series deals with one topic. If many students enroll, the exam is split in two smaller exams in sequential order for even and odd enrollment numbers, respectively.

Each correct question is valued 3 marks. A 1 is added to the ensuing sum in order to allow students to reach 31, which corresponds to 30 with honors. This implies that, for instance, students who correctly answered 8 questions do not get 24 but rather 25.

Three possible answers are proposed for each question. Students who pick up the right answer receive 3 marks. Students who pick up a wrong answer, several answers, or no answer at all, they obtain 0 marks. Students are allowed to change their initial choice provided that their final choice is absolutely clear.

Sometimes, knowledgeable, profound students receive low marks in multiple choice exams because they have interesting thoughts that are different from those of the professor. In order to alleviate this problem, students have a possibility to leave a comment where explain why they selected a certain answer. If this was the wrong answer, but it was chosen out of interesting reasons, I shall assign 1, or 2, or even 3 marks. Comments cannot decrease the evaluation of a correct answer. If comments make clear that the right answer was selected out of a wrong reason, that answer receives 3 marks nonetheless.

The final mark can be refused only once. No partial exams. Only students who enrolled through AlmaEsami are admitted to the exam. The final mark cannot be changed by means of oral discussion.

Exams correction times depend on professor's duties, which are larger than this course. Timing cannot be foreseen.

Quite often, students request an additional exam in the second half of July. The results of this exam are made available in the second half of August. They cannot be used to obtain fellowships or in order to enroll into masters at other Universities.

 

Teaching tools

Blackboard, videos, computer simulations.

Office hours

See the website of Guido Fioretti