Welcome to Managing the Organization: From Organizational Design to Execution

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Managing the Organization: From Organizational Design to Execution

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Managing the Organization: From Organizational Design to Execution

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Cours 4 sur 7 dans Specialization Strategic Leadership and Management

In this course you will build a practical framework to understand the critical linkages between organization design and the creation of economic value through execution. We will focus on four critical linkages: 1. How organizational growth and life cycle require design changes to improve execution 2. How managerial decision making can be improved through better organization design 3. How the design of human resource practices shape the culture of the organization 4. How innovation and change can be facilitated through organization design These linkages are critical in assessing how managers make sure that the organizations they design can execute the strategies they have envisioned under changing environmental conditions. Learners will be able to answer the following: • What are the managerial implications of organizational growth and life cycle? • How do you improve managerial decision making through organizational design? • How do human resource management policies shape organizational culture? • How do organizations plan for top management succession and change? • How do you know that your organization design is not effective? • How do you manage organizational change and innovation? This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu.

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Course Orientation

You will become familiar with the course, your classmates, and our learning environment. The orientation will also help you obtain the technical skills required for the course.

Welcome to Managing the Organization: From Organizational Design to Execution2:51

Rencontrer les enseignants

Huseyin Leblebici
Professor of Business Administration
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign College of Business Department of Business Administration
Michael Bednar
Associate Professor
Business Administration

Welcome to our course, Managing the Organization:

From Organizational Design to Execution.

My name is Mike Bednar,

and for over a decade,

I've been a faculty member at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois.

I teach classes about management in organizations,

and I do research on topics related to corporate governance and executive leadership.

This course is the second class of

a two course sequence on designing and managing the organization.

In the first course, we focused on designing

the organization in a way that fits with organizational strategies.

We discussed the need for managers to understand the number of

internal and external contingencies

that should influence the design choices that we make.

We learned some basic principles of organizational design,

including ideas around differentiation and integration.

In the second class, we'll talk about what we do

once we have an organizational design in place.

We'll talk about some of the factors that help us better manage that design,

and that can ultimately lead to better execution and value creation.

In the first module of this course,

we'll talk about the organizational life cycle and the importance of change.

Organizations go through a series of

fairly predictable stages in understanding what those stages are and

the different challenges faced by managers throughout

the life cycle should help you better execute the organization strategy.

In module two, we'll talk about structuring

the decision-making process in an organization.

We'll learn about some common decision-making biases and explore

some ways that organizations can reduce the effects of those biases.

In module three, we'll discuss organizational culture and look at some ways that

managers can help to shape culture to different human resource practices.

In the last module, we'll talk about managing the succession process,

so that the organization has the pipeline of

managerial talent to make continued success possible.

For each module, you'll see a brief introductory video by me,

followed by a video lecture from my former colleague Huseyin Leblebici.

Hussein was a dear friend of mine and a well-respected scholar with deep knowledge

about organizations and the problems that managers encounter in organizational life.

It's a great opportunity to be able to learn from

such an accomplished and thoughtful professor.

Each module will have a set of readings that you should pay attention to.

At the end of each module,

there will be a couple of assessment tools

to see how you're doing and understanding the content

that's being presented There'll be a graded quiz on the material and occasionally,

I'll ask you to write a reflection essay where you

have a chance to apply the material to your own life.

I invite you to learn the material that will be presented.

But more importantly, I urge you to look for ways to apply what you're learning to better

understand and manage the organizations that you are a part of. Welcome to the course.

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