9/2/2019 Course: Organizational Behaviour II

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Organizational Behaviour II

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Session 1: Introduction to Organizations and Organizational Effectiveness

Reading 1: Understanding the Design of Organizations

Reading 2: Chapter 1 of Daft (2013)

Introduction to Org Design

Session 2: Organizational Structure

Case: Appex Corporation

Case Question/s: Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the different design
configuration used in the Appex Corporation?

Reading 1: Understanding the Design of Organizations

Reading 2: Chapter 2 of Daft (2013)

Session 3 & 4: Organizational Strategy, Environments and Impact on Design of

Organization

Case: People Express Airlines: Rise and Decline

Case Question/s: Identify the factors leading to the growth and decline of People Express
Airlines.

Reading 1: Understanding the Design of Organizations

Reading 2: Chapter 6 of Daft (2013)

Reading 3: The importance of structure and process to strategy implementation

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Session 5: Impact of Technology and Size on Design of Organization

Case: Its Code X4 as Tata Motors Looks to Regain Lost Glory

Case Question/s: Given at the end of case

Reading: Chapter 13 of Daft (2013)

Factors Impacting Org Design

Session 6: Power, Politics and Interpersonal Conflicts

Reading: Chapter 7 of Daft (2013)

Case: Aditya Kumar

Case Question/s:
What is your analysis of the actions and performance of Aditya Kumar?

Session 7: Organizational Decision Making

Case: Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer

Case Question/s: 1. Identify the sources of conflict in the case.

2. Identify the process by which decisions were being made in the
case.

Reading 1: A note on Decision making

Reading 2: Chapter 8 of Daft (2013)

Power, Politics and Decison-Making

Session 8: Inter-Organizational Networks

Case: CSIR-Tech Private Limited

Case Question/s: 1. Evaluate CSIR’s strategy of forming alliance with CTPL

2. Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the inter-organizational
network.

Reading : Chapter 4 of the Daft (2013)

Inter-Organisational Relationships

Session 9: Organizational Lifecycle

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Case: People Express Airlines: Rise and Decline
Reading: Chapter 12 of Daft (2013)

Organisational Lifecyle

Session 10: Organizational Culture

Case: ABC Energy

Reading: Chapter 9 of Daft (2013)

Discussion of Student Assignments

Organisational Culture

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Session 2: Organizational Structure
Session 3 & 4: Organizational Strategy, Enviro...
Session 5: Impact of Technology and Size on Desig...
Session 6: Power, Politics and Interpersonal Confl...
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