Organizational Design: Creating Competitive Advantage

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Intermediate Level
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Syllabus

This course will be running over six weeks.Week 1 : Interrelationship between organization structure and strategyCase used – Joy of RunningRelationship between organizations and marketsControl systems in organizationsCase used – Cunningham MotorsWeek 2:Leveraging specialization in organization designCompetitive advantage achieved through different designsCase discussion of Ford Motors Company and General MotorsWeek 3:Strategic outsourcingDecision making framework for outsourcingVariety versus scale tradeoffWeek 4:Different Organization Structures – functional, divisional and MatrixCase discussion of a Consumer Durables Company having a hybrid structureStructural tradeoffs – complexity, formalization and centralization
Week 5:Mechanistic and Organic designsCase discussion of Acme and OmegaWeek 6: How to manage structural changeCase used – VFM SolutionsPutting it all together

Prerequisite

Basic knowledge of business is necessary and some experience in being part of an organization or running an organization is ideal.

Instructors

Sourav Mukherji
Professor, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Management
IIM Bangalore

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Indian Institute of Management Bangalore ( IIM Bangalore or IIMB ) is a public business school and institute of national importance located in Bangalore, India. Founded in 1973, it was the third IIM to be established, after IIM Calcutta and IIM Ahmedabad.

The institute offers postgraduate, doctoral, executive education and certificate programmes.

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