00745 - Business Organisation

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Docente: Massimo Mamoli
  • Credits: 2
  • SSD: SECS-P/10
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Nursing and Midwifery Sciences (cod. 8488)

Course contents

1 - Introduction to the Company

Company's Concept : Economic (Zappa) and Legal (art. 2555 cc)

General Systems Theory (Ludwig Von Bertalanffy, 1968)

Corporate Social Responsibility's ; Theory and the Stakeholders

Bain's Theory (1959): Structure - Conduct - Performance

2 - Organizational theories:

Taylor - Fayol - Mayo

Maslow - Mc Gregor - Herzberg

Mintzberg

3 - Management Quality Systems

Some definitions: ISO 8402/1986; Q. Expected - Q. Actual - Q. Perceived (Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire)

Technical definition: Juran, 1951 and Crosby, 1979.

Commercial definition: Drucker, 2006.

Q. developed by Parasuraman, 1988

The 8 basic principles of Quality

The subjects of the Quality System: Companies - State - Certification bodies - Accreditation bodies

The certification process: the tools of Quality System (Quality Manual - Procedure Manual - Register of Complaints - Incentives)

The cost of "non Quality" developed by Crosby.

The models to analyze the Q. = A) The 6 P's of Q. ; B) the Ishikawa's "fishbone" ; C) the continuous improvement developed by Deming ; D) Kaizen's 5 S.

Correlation between Behavior - Quality - Customer Satisfaction: 1) Gallup Research; 2) Servqual model; 3) Rosander-ASQC model

Team work: reflections on the role of the Best Manager

Teaching methods

Lecturers with discussion of some cases reported to the health care.

Assessment methods

Written, open questions

Office hours

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