Training On Organisational Design And Behaviour

  • Overview

INTRODUCTION

This curriculum offers a managerial perspective to organizational design and the comprehension of organizational processes; it covers organization structure and operation, the management process, and employee behavior in-depth and clearly.

The program gives students the skills to evaluate an organization's structure, operations, and management, as well as the "tools" to look for the best strategies for enhancing organizational performance and effectiveness. It explains the importance of paying attention to important organizational principles and the taking into account of structure, and it offers a framework for understanding the order and systems of command through which the work of the organization is conducted. The course discusses and demonstrates ways to increase organizational effectiveness as well as the significance of management's function as an integrating activity.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the course, participants should be able to:

  • Describe the characteristics and advantages of the different models of change and organizational design
  • Determine whether the organizational issue justifies organizational design or redesign
  • Make knowledgeable structural decisions in relation to the organizational or business issue
  • Assess the organization's readiness for change
  • Involve stakeholders in the design project
  • Consider the risks

DURATION

10 Days

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The target audience for this course is HR professionals, line managers, internal/external HR consultants, and organizational development specialists who are involved in organizing or assisting structural changes in an organization..

COURSE CONTENT

The Context of Management and Organisational Behaviour:

  • The changing nature of organizational behaviour and work organisation
  • The relevance of management and organizational behaviour theories
  • Organisational environment and culture
  • Contrasting 19th, 20th and 21st century management

The Nature of Organisational Behaviour:

  • Organisational behaviour and influences on behaviour in organisations
  • Behavioural science - a multi-disciplinary approach
  • Organisational effectiveness and management as an integrating activity
  • Psychology, culture and organizational behaviour

Approaches to Organisation and Management

  • Management theory: classical approaches, scientific management, bureaucracy, structuralism
  • Management theory approaches: human relations, systems, contingency
  • Other approaches to the study of organisations, the decision-making approach, social action
  • Benefits to the manager and applications of organisation theory in practice

The Nature of Organisations

  • Organisations: formal and informal, private and public sector, production and service
  • Functions and components of an organisation, activity, authority and organisations
  • Organisations as open systems, interactions with the environment, sub-systems
  • The analysis of work organisations, contingency models, technology and managing technical change

Organisational Goals

  • The nature, functions and integration of organizational goals
  • Classification and alteration of organizational goals
  • Organisational ideologies and principles, values and beliefs
  • Objectives and policy, multiple objectives and actuality

Organisational Strategy and Responsibilities

  • The need for strategy, the concept of synergy
  • SWOT analysis, the management of opportunities and risks
  • Social responsibilities of organisations, stakeholders
  • Corporate social responsibility, business ethics, values, related legislation
  • Organisation Structure and Design
  • The nature, importance and design of good structure; effect on organizational behaviour
  • Levels of organisation, hierarchy, objectives, spans of control, the scalar chain
  • Task and element functions, division of work, centralization and decentralization
  • Structures: flat, formal, line and staff, project teams and matrix organisation

Patterns of Structure and Work Organisation

  • Variables influencing organisation structure, size, technology, environment, flexibility
  • Studies and theorists: Woodward, Perrow, Burns and Stalker, Lawrence and Lorsch
  • Mixed and alternative forms of organisation structure, the contingency approach
  • Delegation and manager-subordinate relationships, control, empowerment

Technology and Organisations

  • Developments, adoption and introduction of new technology
  • The influence of social, political and contextual factors
  • Managerial and employee involvement in technical change

Acceptance of technical change, job redesign and work humanization

GENERAL NOTES

  • Our seasoned instructors, who have years of experience as seasoned professionals in their respective fields of work, will be teaching this course. A combination of practical exercises, theory, group projects, and case studies are used to teach the course.
  • The participants receive training manuals and supplementary reading materials.
  • Participants who complete this course successfully will receive a certificate.
  • We can also create a course specifically for your organization to match your needs. To learn more, get in touch with us at training@dealsontrainers.org.
  • The training will take place at DEALSON TRAINERS IN NAIROBI, KENYA in Nairobi, Kenya.
  • The training fee includes lunch, course materials, and lodging for the training session. Upon request, we may arrange for our participants' lodging and transportation to the airport.
  • Payment must be made to our bank account before the training begins, and documentation of payment should be emailed to training@dealsontrainers.org

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