Unit Seven: Organizing: How Will You Put the Pieces Together?

Part One: Assessment Activities

1.  Self-Assessment: Personal Priorities (Lussier pages 214-15)

2. Hackman-Oldham Job Diagnostic Survey

3. Delegation Self-Assessment (Do this for your manager)

Part Two: Email Application Activities

(Group assignment) Refer to the company I assigned your team in the Planning Unit.    Discuss the type of departmentalization used.  Which of sport's model configurations best describes your organization and why?  Are work teams used?  If so explain.

(Individual assignment) Select a manager you work for or have worked for and analyze how well she or he implements the four steps of delegation (Lussier, page 219).  Which steps does the manager typically follow and not follow? 

Part Three: Textbook Assignment

Read chapters 6 in Lussier. 

Part Four: Unit Outline with Reading Assignments

I.  Designing the structure of an organization  

    A. Division of labor

        1. Specialization

            a. Job

            b. Social

        2. Span of control

        3. Location

    B. Coordination

        1. Mintzberg on Organizational Coordinating Mechanisms  

           a. Standardization

           b. Departmentalization

           c. Communication patterns  

    C. Control   

        1. Paradox of Coordination and Control. By: Gittell, Jody Hoffer; California Management Review, Spring2000, Vol. 42 Issue 3, p101, 17p, 1 diagram  

    D. Overview

      1. Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine

II. Structural types 

    A. Henry Mintzberg, Organization Design Fashion or Fit, HBR (#8110)

        1. Simple  

        2. Machine bureaucracy  

        3. Divisional form  

        4. Professional bureaucracy  

        5. Adhocracy  

    B. Gareth Morgan

        1. Six models of organization

III. Changing the organization

    A. Organizational life cycles

        1. Evolution and revolution as organizations grow. By: Greiner, Larry E.; Harvard Business Review, May/Jun98, Vol. 76 Issue 3, p55, 9p, 1 chart, 2 graphs 

        2. Suzy Wetlaufer, Driving Change, HBR, March-April 1999, #99211

    B. Robert W. Keidel, "Rethinking Organizational Design," The Academy of Management Executive, Nov 1994, p 12

        1. Restructuring

            a. Examples

                1. Xerox

                2. Tommy Hilfiger

IV. The Organization of the Future

    A. Struggle to create an organization for the 21st century, Fortune Magazine, April 3, 1995.    

        1. The Horizontal Organization   

         2. Re-engineering

            a. Bibliography

    B. Flat and happy, Training, April 1995. 

    C. Organigraphs: Drawing How Companies Really Work. By: Mintzberg, Henry; Van der Heyden, Ludo; Harvard Business Review, Sep/Oct99, Vol. 77 Issue 5, p87, 8p, 16 diagrams, 1c 

    D. JoAnn Greco, "Designing for the 21st century," Journal of Business Strategy, Nov-Dec 1998  

    E. Flexible and structured

VII. Learning to delegate

VIII. Organizational change