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(1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity.

(2) Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.


Q1Activity 1:Ford and Taylorism

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PdmNbqtDdI

Questions to consider:

1. Would workers in Australia, America or Europe accept the Taylorism in this form today?

2. Consider the design of scripts for use in Call Centres, can you see Taylorism in that? Explain.

3.This 'clip' is showing history from 100 years ago. Some would say that 'the world has moved on' and these ideas are out of date. However, could there be parts of the world today for which these ideas might be just what they need? Explain.

Activity 2:Fayolism as the Necessary Complement of Taylorism- Pearson, Norman M. (Feb., 1945) The American Political Science Review,Vol. 39, No. 1 , pp. 68-80

URL:https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1948832?uid=3737536&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21103317946303

Questions to consider:

1. While some would argue that this paper, now 70 years beyond its publication date is 'out of date', could there still be value in the ideas expressed here in other parts of the world?

Q2Activity 1: Structure and strategy

URL:BCG's Yves Morieux view on Organisation Designxhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7d1dzOKmw

Questions to consider:

1. Yves Morieux claims that structure follows strategy. Is this always the case?

Activity 2: Holacracy

URL: Zappos just abolished bosses. Inside tech's latest management craze. https://www.vox.com/2014/7/11/5876235/silicon-valleys-latest-management-craze-holacracy-explained

Questions to consider:

1. What's your understanding of holacracy? How would you describe it compared to bureaucracy and team-based structure?

2. Discuss howContingency Factors of Organisational Design are at work in the case of Zappos?

3. In what ways do you think innovative culture is related to (agile) organisational structure?

500 Words each question with HARVARD STYLE referencing.

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