MGMT 315 - Organizational Design

Credits: 3
Learn effective organizational design in both traditional and innovative organizations, with special emphasis on organizational structures that can provide strategic advantage. Topics include when to use functional, divisional, or matrix organizations, and examples of high-engagement organizational cultures.

Enrollment Requirement: Admission into the BAS in Applied Management program; and BUS& 101; and ENGL& 101; or instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Analyze organizational effectiveness by diagnosing and evaluating organizational culture, values, and structure.
Develop a framework for evolving organizational design elements and relationships by applying organizational theories to a business scenario.
Summarize the relationship between leadership, organizational design, and effectiveness.
Examine how management and organizational design can lead to a strategic advantage.
Design an organizational structure for a business utilizing organizational design theories.

Program Outcomes

Formulate effective business strategies by conducting thorough analysis of a given market and business environment.
Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to effectively and efficiently resolve business problems.
Analyze financial data to explain organizational performance and identify business opportunities in a given market.
Apply organizational behavior principles and human resources management practices to formulate a plan to effectively hire, retain, and develop a workforce.
Plan and implement marketing and sales strategies to maximize long-term profitability of a firm.
Construct operations and project plans that efficiently and effectively leverage organizational resources.
Formulate strategies to increase ethical behavior and socially responsible decision making within an organization.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.