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MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONS IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
In your blog, you should address the following two sections:
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.
Visit the following URLs, and use 'Questions to consider' to guide your thinking.
Activity 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?
Activity 3: Linear Programming Word Problem
URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ACJ9ewUC6U
Questions to consider:
1. What insights into rational decision making approach can you draw from this video?
2. What would be the limitations of linear programming?
3. In what kinds of situation could the linear programming be useful to decision making?
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