74843 - Organization Theory

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • 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