00745 - Business Organisation

Learning outcomes

The target of the course is to provide students the basic knowledge to understand the organization as conoscitive synthesis, the evolutive path of the organizational theory in its different phases of methodological development, and the analysis of business and the competitiveness in the organizational structures and procedures. At the end of the course the student will be able to: - know, understand the organizational problematic of the different business functions in their theoretical and applicative aspects; - Evaluate the structures and processes of organizations.

Course contents

The Theory

1. The organization as conoscitive syntesis. An evolutive approach to the theory of organization. Scientific method, human approach, structuralism and theory of systems. Strategy and contingency. Theory of complexity and empirical reductionism. A criticism to the use of models. Adeguate organization adn human needs.

2. The organization as method of analysis. The Business field. Structura and procedures. Quantity and quality. Dimension and behaviour. renewal and chanege. Network model.

Practice

3. The structure. The principles of organizational structuration. Hierarchical-functional organization, staff & line, Integration, support mechnisms and organisms. Divisional Organization, Networking and network organization.

4. The procedure. The analysis for activity and for processes. Operations, procedures and processes. The sequential procedures, in parallel and cyclic ones. Timing, quantity and costs. The analysis of flows and the workflow management. Mangement by processes and quality of results.

The deepening of the subjects will be completed by exercitations and case analysis. They will be planned during the course of lectures, as seminars, workshop and experiences in order to face the relevant organizational-business realities.

The contents are:

The Management and its relationship with the Economics. The management field, the business components, the concept of system: open, controlled, of transformation, dynamic. The business performance evaluation. The enterprise as innovative system, oriented and complex. The renewal system. The hierarchical and functional structure, Vice and staff mechanism, the divisional structure; matrix, project and temporary structure. The adhocracy and network organization.

The scientific organization of job. Human relations School, The structuralism. The system thinking, The contingency and strategic approach. Total Quality Management. From the excellence to network.

The procedure analysis. The techniques PERT and the critical path analysis. The Gantt tool and timing analysis.

The Functions: administration, marketing, human resources, production, logistics, informative systems, Research & Development, finance, strategic management, strategic and operative plans and programmes

 

Readings/Bibliography

M. Bianchi, Il sistema organizzativo e le funzioni aziendali, terza edizione, Giappichelli, Torino 2007.

Further materials will be provided during the course as lecture notes.

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures together with seminar, experts' evidences and cases analysis.

Assessment methods

Written test (composed by open questions, multiple choices and exercises).

As required by the academic regulations, there are two partial tests and 3 total tests (for the official dates of the calls, see the website of the School of Economics, Management and Statistics of Forlì).
If the student decides to take the test by participating in the partial tests, the student can participate to the second partial test only if he/she has passed the first one. The final evaluation, published with reference to the list of subscribers to the second partial test consists of the arithmetic average of the evaluations obtained in the two partial tests and concerns, of course, the examination in its entirety.
To do the exam is required to be enrolled through the procedure online, in compliance with
mandatory deadlines.

The vision of the test and verbalization takes place on the date set and indicated in Almaesami.

 

Teaching tools

Didactical Materials: the one presented in class will be made available to the student in electronic format via the Internet.

Office hours

See the website of Massimo Bianchi

See the website of Laura Tampieri