75324 - ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSES

Anno Accademico 2015/2016

  • Docente: Raffaele Corrado
  • Crediti formativi: 6
  • SSD: SECS-P/08
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
  • Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Economia e gestione aziendale (cod. 8858)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The course gives a systematic understanding of the mechanisms of coordination and control of activities in business firms and organizations. Based on how people make decisions, the course discusses both the internal working of firms and their relations with their environments, as a function of the management of power and dependence relations. Power and dependence relations are in turn discussed as emerging from the pursuit of goals by actors that behave with intended and bounded rationality, in a context of uncertainties and interdependencies. At the end of the course the student: - knows how to design mechanisms for helping people take "good" decisions and for controlling the flow of activities; - knows the mechanisms of the planning of activities, both within and across the borders of the functional departments of the firm; - knows the strategies that can be used to manage the external dependencies of the business, and their implications for the internal operation of the firm.

Contenuti

  • Organization and decision making
  • Rationality and the psychology of decisions
  • Equilibrium of the organization
  • Modes of organizational influence on decisions
  • Organizational structure and human decision making

Testi/Bibliografia

  • H.A. Simon, Administrative Behavior (4th Edition). The Free Press (1997)
    ISBN: 978-0684835822
  • Articles and business cases (TBD)

Metodi didattici

Lecture, discussion of cases and other materials

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Written exam. Optional oral exam.

Link ad altre eventuali informazioni

https://sites.google.com/site/profraffaelecorrado/

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Raffaele Corrado