00745 - Business Organisation

Learning outcomes

The target of the course is the providing to  the students of the basic knowledge to understand the organization as cognitive synthesis and its implications for the business governance. This synthesis shows deep differences existing in the evaluation of strategic and operative area. At the end of the course the student will be able to  understand the organizational problems concerning these two areas and to  apply analytical tools on the understanding and management of organizational structures and processes together with the evaluation of their performances.

Course contents

1 . Introduction and presentation of the program of the course and the methods for the examination.
2. Business management and strategic management.
3. The relationship between strategy and management in the organization of companies.
4. The strategic structure of the network with customers and suppliers.
5. The company as an open system and field of management.
6. The simulation of the strategic behavior Exploiting / exploiting in the management of the network with customers and suppliers.
7. The hierarchical-functional structure. The organs of vice and staff.
8. The evolution of network with customers and suppliers through the selection of the business relationship.
9. The divisional structure, , matrix, by project, by temporary system.
10. The dynamic organizations
11. The structure for areas and the adhocracy. The network structure.
12. The process of business creation.
13. From Scientific management of Labour to Work on Network
14. Strategic Analysis of Network Project.
15. The analysis of procedures. The techniques PERT and critical path analysis.
16. Detection Timing Process
17. Pert Analysis and timing of programs
18. Projects evaluation and remodeling organizational resources.
19. Business Functions
20. The strategic evaluation of organizational performance and the perception of performance.
26. The project management and the strategies of enterprise creation for the local development.

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 seminars, expert evidences and cases analysis referring to the most advanced experiences of networking management and international project work

Assessment methods

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

As required by the academic regulations, there are two partial tests (first and second partial test) 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