98567 - Organization and Leadership

Learning outcomes

The goal of this course is to learn the basics of organisations' design and leadership and how to build, manage and motivate work teams, both in person and online. During the course students make use of conceptual and computational models to manage and understand distributed intelligence, as well as information, communication and identity, the ecologies of organisations and their leadership dynamics.

Course contents

1. Introduction: What are organizations, what are the levels of analysis, and how are organizational phenomena studied?

2. Individual level: Personality and values

3. Individual level: Perceptions

4. Individual level: Identity and roles

5. Individual level: Emotions and stress

6. Individual level: Decision-making

7. Individual level: Motivation

8. Group: construction and dynamics

9. Organizational level: introduction and challenges

10. Wrap up and presentations of the groups

11. Organizational level: Strategy, organizational design and effectiveness

12. Organizational level: Fundamental elements of the organizational structure

13. Inerorganizational level:Inter-organizational relations

14. Organizational design for digital organizationsand big data analysis

15. Wrap up and presentations of the groups

16. Classical and modern theories of leadership and emotional intelligence

17. Decision making, crisis management, motivation's theories

18. Case study: analysis of famous leaders.

19. Everyday's leadership, leadership for inclusion, roleplay multicultural contexts

20. Self leadership and group work presentation

Readings/Bibliography

Daft, R. L. (2021). Organization theory and design. Cengage Learning Canada Inc.

Slides and papers provided by the teacher.

Teaching methods

Lectures, business cases, group work, classroom simulations.

Assessment methods

There are two ways of verifying the learning level:

1) The student can choose to take two partial tests, one at the middle of the course and one at the end of the course.

The first partial test will focus on the first part, while the second test will cover the arguments developed during the second part.

2) The student can choose to take only one test at the end on the contents of the entire course.

In addition, students can choose whether or not to participate in two group works during the course.

For students who are NOT able to participate in group work, the assessment will be 100% based on the final exam consisting of several multiple choice and open-ended questions.

For students participating in group work, the assessment will be 30% based on group work and 70% based on the final exam consisting of several multiple choice and open-ended questions.

 

Student learning evaluation grid

•  <18: inadequate preparation;
• 18-23: sufficient theoretical knowledge, analytical skills, and correct language;
• 24-27: good theoretical knowledge, ability to analyze and critical reasoning, use of the specific terminology of the subject;
• 28-30: very good theoretical knowledge, in-depth analysis, and critical reasoning skills, use of the specific terminology of the subject;
• 30 cum Laude: excellent level in all dimensions of learning, analysis, reasoning, and communication.

Teaching tools

The supporting tools consist of the course manual, the slides and the readings made available on virtual.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Ludovico Bullini Orlandi

See the website of Davide Fassola