Description


Gepostet von Thanos Lappas in category: Initial Ideas
What is the course all about. What is the broad topic, what are the main aspects to be covered?

The course should start by defining Organisational Strategy. If we can set the basics, we can see specific strategies for managing change in organisations.
 

    Target Group


    Gepostet von Thanos Lappas in category: Initial Ideas
    Briefly describe the characteristics, requirements and preferences of the target group

    The target group is managers and executives, but the information should be useful and easy to understand for any member of an organisation.
     
     

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    Course Objectives


    Gepostet von Thanos Lappas in category: Initial Ideas
    Describe the main objectives you would like to achieve in the course. This can contain very broad competencies students shall achieve.

    1: Understanding Strategy: Contraints and Options 
    2: Models and Levels of Strategy 
    3: The Emerging forms of Organisations 
     

      Prerequisites


      Gepostet von Thanos Lappas in category: Initial Ideas
      Describe the prerequisites which you foreseen for the target group

      Our aim is to provide crucial information in an understandable format, the subject matter though is not easy. We should set a minimum educational level for our applicants.
       

        Constraints / Standards


        Gepostet von Thanos Lappas in category: Initial Ideas
        Which discipline / industry standards might have to be considered?

        Ideally, we will manage to cover all fields, with few restrictions.
         

          Course Objectives


          Gepostet von Thanos Lappas in category: Outline
          Please describe the refined course objectives. This should be in line with module descriptions in the course syllabus.

          In the first module we will examine the development and the shortcomings of the main approaches to strategy that have been put forward in the last 50 years. It will be shown that, since the end of the Second World War, organisations have begun to take a strategic perspective on their activities. They have increasingly sought to take a long-term overview, in order to plan for and cope with the vagaries of the future. However, their freedom of action is seen as being constrained or shaped by the unique set of organisational, environmental and societal factors they face. Fortunately, these constraints are not immutable. Similarly, managers can exert some influence over strategic constraints and, potentially at least, can select the approach to strategy that best suits their preferences.
          The second module starts by examining the three basic types or models of strategy that organisations usually adapt to the set demands by the intensified global competition and the changing needs of the consumers: the Quality Management Systems; Business Process Re-engineering and the Total Quality Management approach. The analysis involves the attractiveness of these approaches to modern organisations. In the unit we do not cover the big issue of mergers and acquisitions, which is another extremely popular in nowadays form of organisational change and development. The respective issue will be covered on the course 5 because it is strongly coincided with organisational politics and cultural aspects of change.
          The third module attempts to show how organisations, as we know them today, have evolved, what the forces are that are causing them to change and what the shapes and forms of new and future organisations are most likely to be. We examine certain paradigms of new production and work methods that have evolved over the years as alternative options to the traditional mass producer organisation under the taylorist-fordist auspices. Finally the session ends up with a discussion of the convergence-divergence thesis that is currently at the forefront of the global debate about the future of work.
           

            Learning Outcomes


            Gepostet von Thanos Lappas in category: Outline
            Please describe the learning outcomes.

            After successfully completing our course, our trainees will know:
            • The limits and the barriers of strategic choice for management      and the agents of change at organisations.
            • The gradual emphasis over the years on more emergent      perspectives on strategy
            • About the close relationship between Strategy and Change
            • The three basic strategic change applications that      organisations usually adopt
            • The main strategic planning tools 
            • The weaknesses and strengths of quantitative and qualitative      tools
            • The main elements of the traditional work and      production methods,
            • The main alternative paradigms to taylorist/ fordist methods
            • The issue of convergence/ divergence of organisational strategy
             

              Didactical Concept


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              Please describe the key aspects of the didactical / instructional design

              The course will be taught over the Internet, offering “autonomy” to learners by allowing them to study independently of restrictive factors, such as their physical presence at a particular place and time. The training course material is available in stages, per module, through tailored online classes. After completing the study of each module, learners will electronically submit a corresponding test. The tests contain matching correct answers, multiple choices, true/false statements, or uploads where learners will be required to formulate and attach their reply.  
               

                Course Plan


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                Please create a table which shows the main contents, learning activities as well as potential references (book chapters, papers, ..) and OER to be used for the course development.

                Introductory Course: Organisational Strategy and Change
                1st module: Understanding Strategy: Contraints and Options 
                2nd module: Models and Levels of Strategy 
                3rd module: The Emerging forms of Organisations 
                 
                 

                  Course Development


                  Gepostet von Thanos Lappas in category: (Course) Development
                  Finally lets create our resource

                  If the first (introductory) course is successful, we should also develop a couple more courses about managing change as regards to people and organisational politics
                   

                    Experiences and Feedback


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                    All users provide their experiences

                     

                      Follow up


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                      The group discusses and agrees on changes which should be made based on the feedback.