- Docente: Guido Fioretti
- Credits: 2
- SSD: SECS-P/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Nursing and Midwifery Sciences (cod. 8488)
Learning outcomes
Course contents
Definitions of structure and organization. Fuzziness of organizational boundaries. Persistence of organizational behavior and possibility of an ecology of organizations. General features of evolutionary processes. Birth and fortune of different organizational typologies in different historical contexts: the simple structure, the mechanical bureaucracy, the professional bureaucracy, the multidivisional organization, the matrix organization and the network organization.
Readings/Bibliography
1) Lecture notes available on AMS Campus;
2) H. Mintzberg, "Structure in Fives". Chapters I, VII, VIII, IX,
X, XI, XII, XIII.
Teaching methods
Front teaching.
Assessment methods
Fifteen multiple choices contributing 2 marks each to the final
evaluation. At the end of each question, students are expected to
write 1-2 lines explaining their choice. Selecting a wrong answer,
selecting several answers, selecting no answer as well as the
absence of an explanatory line yield 0 marks. However, the
evaluation of a correct answer may be downgraded to 1 or even to 0
if the explanatory line makes clear that the correct answer was
chosen out of faulty reasoning. Likewise, the evaluation of a wrong
answer may be upgraded to 1 or even 2 if the explanatory line makes
clear that a wrong answer was chosen out of an interesting
reasoning.
This procedure yields an evaluation between 0 and 30. To this
value, a 2 are added. If the resulting mark exceeds 30, honor is
granted. The questionaire must be filled in 1 hour.
Teaching tools
Blackboard + slides.
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Guido Fioretti