- Docente: Roberto Aprile
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Information Science for Management (cod. 8014)
Learning outcomes
The student should know the different organizational models, the way to organize them and the role of the IT.
The student should even know how to diagnostic and find positive solutions in cases of failure of the organizational systems.
The student should even know the main elements of the retribution and of work contracts.
Course contents
Basic elements of the organizational structure
The main elements of the structure
Taylor and the Scientific Management
The role of the processes and of the informatics systems
How to project individual positions
How to project the macrostructure
Connection systems
Decentralization
Bureaucracy
Divisional structures
The work organization: wages and work contracts
Boundaries and network among companies
Readings/Bibliography
La progettazione dell'organizzazione aziendale, Henry Mintzberg, Il Mulino, 1996.
Organizzazione e comportamento economico, Anna Grandori, Il Mulino (only the third part: different forms of organization)
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons and practice exercises. Even group works and students' presentations.
Assessment methods
Written exam with open questions (usually two questions) and eventual additional multiple choice.
Office hours
See the website of Roberto Aprile