•GUIDA ECONOMIA 07-08 - Università degli studi di Udine

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2. Classification of the organizational theories;
3. The organizational actors: competences,
forms of rationality, motivation;
4. The relationship between organization
and environment: technology, markets
and institutions and their influence on
organizations, focus on contingency theories;
5. Relations among the organisational
actors. Basic coordination forms, the
transaction costs theory and its developments;
6. The simple organizational form: features,
strengths and weaknesses;
7. Tasks and tools for organizational
design;
8. The functional form: features,
strengths and weaknesses;
9. The divisional form: features, strengths
and weaknesses;
10. The adhocratic and matrix form: features,
strengths and weaknesses. The
inter-organizational forms of coordination.
Bibliography
The textbook is
- G. COSTA, P. GUBITTA, Organizzazione
aziendale: mercati, gerarchie e convenzioni,
McGraw-Hill, Milano, 2004.
Further reading
- J.D. THOMPSON, Organizations in Action,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1967.
- A. GRANDORI, Organization and Economic
Behaviour, Routledge, London, 2000.
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
AND CHANGE
Prof. Daniel Pittino
Prof.ssa Cristiana Compagno
Aims
The course provides a platform for students
to develop a comprehensive understanding
of organizational behaviour
with respect to processes, tasks and transformation
of organizations.
Contents
The course is divided into two modules
and the course program is structured as
follows:
Module 1: Organizational Behaviour
The course provides a platform for students
to develop a comprehensive understanding
of organizational behavior with
respect to individual groups and interpersonal
processes. The program includes
theoretical lessons and an introduction to
management techniques and problem
solving through case studies and simulations.
The program is structured as follows:
Organizational Behaviour
1. The field of organizational behaviour:
definition and framework, fundamental
concepts.
2. Individual processes and characteristics:
personality, attitude, learning, motivation;
perception and decision; the
process of organizational sensemaking.
3. Interpersonal and group processes and
characteristics: group dynamics - types of
groups, reasons for group formation,
stages of group development (forming,
storming, norming, performing); main
characteristics of groups; group behavior
and conflict - levels of conflict; consequences
of functional and dysfunctional
conflict, conflict management.
4. Power, politics, power and influence;
interpersonal sources of power; structural
and situational sources of power; political
behavior in organizations.
5. Negotiation processes, characteristics
of negotiations, negotiations and game
theory.
6. Leadership: nature of the leadership
process; models of leadership - leadership
traits theory, behavioral theories of
leadership, leader-follower models; evaluation
of models of leadership.