Dr Lisa Daniel
Room 10-34, 10 Pulteney Street
Telephone: 8313 3105
Email: lisa.daniel@adelaide.edu.au 

Weekly lectures begin Tuesday, July 26 from 2 pm till 4 pm in G14 Darling West Lecture Theatre

Tutorial sessions commence week 2.

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1	An ability to critically analyse problems and apply effective, creative, and innovative solutions, both independently and cooperatively, to current and future organisational situations.
2	The ability to locate, analyse, evaluate, synthesise and communicate relevant organisational information from a wide variety of sources in an appropriate format and timely manner.
3	An awareness of ethical, social and cultural issues within complex organisational contexts, and an ability ascertain key causes and effects, develop feasible constructive solutions appropriate for successful implementation.
4	A commitment to continuous learning and the capacity to maintain academic objectivity, intellectual inquiry, humanistic empathy and professional rigour throughout working life.

Required textbook - Organisational Theory, Design and Change, 2010 (Global edition) Gareth Jones, 7th Edition, Pearson Education Limited, England. ISBN: 978-0-273-76560-8

MyUni will be used extensively in this course for announcements and assessment INCLUDING assignment submission. 
Please ensure you have access before the start of semester. This is your responsibility.

Note: The dates of the lecture schedule will be updated for 2017.
This course delivers all critical material in the 2 hour lecture given each week. 

Tutorial sessions provide enhanced understanding of course material and assessment tasks as preparation for the final exam.
Week       Date                          Topic                                           Text Ch.
1             26/7/16                     Organisations & Effectiveness         Ch 1
2             2/8/16                       Stakeholders, Managers & Ethics    Ch 2
3             9/8/16                       The Changing Environment            Ch 3
4             16/8/16                     Organisational Design                    Ch 4

Organisational System Project DUE midnight Sunday 21 Aug

5             23/8/16                     Authority & Control                        Ch 5
6             30/8/16                     Coordination & Specialisation          Ch 6
7             6/9/16                       Cultural Complexities                     Ch 7
8             13/9/16                     Technology                                    Ch 9

Challenges and Contingencies Assignment DUE midnight Sunday 18 Sept

19 Sept – 2 Oct MID-SEMESTER BREAK
 
9             4/10/16                    Organisational Change                    Ch 10
10           11/10/16                  Learning & Knowledge Management Ch 12
11           18/10/16                  Innovation, Intrapreneurship & Creativity Ch 13
12           25/10/16                  Conflict, Power & Politics                         Ch 14

To achieved a level of sound comprehension and academic susccess at least 3 hours of study time/ assessment/preparation is required EACH WEEK in addition to the 3 contact hours.

Teaching & Learning Activities	Related Learning Outcomes
Pre-reading of text for lecture	1
Participation in flipped classroom discussions	2

Theme	Week	Topic	Text
DESIGN	1	Organisations & Effectiveness	Ch 1
	2	Stakeholders, Managers & Ethics	Ch 2
	3	The Changing Environment	Ch 3
	4	Organisational Design	Ch 4
	Organisational System Project DUE midnight 23 August
	5	Authority & Control	Ch 5
	6	Coordination & Specialisation	Ch 6
CONTINGENCIES	7	Cultural Complexities	Ch 7
	8	Technology	Ch 9
	9	Learning & Knowledge Management	Ch 12
	10	Innovation, Intrapreneurship & Creativity	Ch 13
	Challenges Assignment DUE midnight 4 October
	11	Conflict, Power & Politics	Ch 14
	12	Organisational Change	Ch 10

To ensure students passing this course have a reasonable understanding of the material, this course has been structured to provide the maximum learning opportunities through assessment tasks.

• Organisational System Project (20%) requires you (individually) to use systems thinking to examine and explain a local small business (25-250 employees). You must determine 1) the main values and motivations, 2) principle guiding structures, 3) key participants and relationships as well as 4) manifest outcomes of the organisational system.

• Challenge and Contingencies Project (30% assignment + 10% presentation) requires groups of 3 or 4 to consider how one of your organisations (from the first assignment) will resolve an organisational problem. The problem is one which is impacting effectiveness and is internal to the business i.e. not an external issue (e.g. markets, industry, etc.).

• Final EXAM (40%) will require written answers to set questions. Answers require insightful explanatory comprehension and integrated understanding of the course material.

Assessment Task	Due Date/ Week	Weighting	Length(Word,Time)	Learning Outcomes
Organisational System Project (individual)	Week 6	20%	3 page limit + 1 page illustration	1,4
Organisational Business Case Challenge (group work)	Week 8	30%	5 pages limit	2,3
Challenge - Oral Presentation (group work)	Week 10	10%	15 mins presentation, 23 slide limit	5,6
Final Exam	Week 13	40%	N/A	1,6
Total		100%

YOU MUST ACHIEVE at least 50% IN EVERY assessment item TO PASS THIS COURSE.

1. Organisational System (20%) - 3 page limit + 1 page illustration.
DUE MIDNIGHT SUNDAY AUGUST 21

This individual assignment requires you to choose a local small or micro business* (2-50) employees) examine and explain how it operates using systems thinking. Do NOT use a franchise, branch or a subsidiary – if you are unsure CHECK with the lecturer or your tutor.

• You must explain the inter-dependencies between the following elements - 1) the main values and motivations, 2) principle guiding structures and frameworks, 3) key participants and their inter-actions and relationships, as well as 4) manifest outcomes of the organisational system.

• The a) purpose and goals of its business activities and b) where value is sought both need to be made clear both in the illustration and in your explan a conation. Remember c) effectiveness is achieved through the integrated working of the whole organisation, ensure you show this in your work.

• Use can use a causal loop map,cept or mind map to show the inter-connections across levels and between elements i.e. values, frameworks, relationships, outcomes.

* Your organisation must be an SME (with 2- 50 employees) and you must provide a logical, understandable explanation of the system relative to the activities your organisation undertakes.

2. Challenges and Contingencies 30% - 5 pages limit + 10% - 15 mins presentation – 23 slide limit
DUE MIDNIGHT SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18

This GROUP (of 3-4) assignment requires you to consider one of the organisations from the previous assignment to explain how it will manage one of the following challenges alternatives – choose ONE; 

1. A key worker/s quit taking valuable knowledge with them.
2. A major technology problem has brought your company to a standstill.
3. Poor workplace practices threaten employee well-being.
4. A dominant group of employees is working contrary to accepted rules and routines.

 Explain and justify as if your group were the task force assigned by the top management team to investigate and identify a resolution to the problem.
 At least 10 academic peer-reviewed journal references are required.

You are required to discuss the organisational as a system in terms of course concepts e.g. such as complexity, formalisation, centralisation, specialisation/differentiation, internal & external environment, authority/control, integration/coordination, value, efficiency, stakeholders, uncertainty, dynamics etc.

You must justify your work with detailed and insightful explanations to ensure you convince senior management, as opposed to simply presenting an opinion without sound explanation of how and why that would be appropriate for the company.

For an effective answer your assignment should address;
a) How this challenge affected the organisation? Where/when/how/why. Discuss the problem in terms of its implications on all system levels including activities/operations, policy/procedures and interactions/relationships and with respect to its business effectiveness and uncertainty.
b) What actions can be taken/could have been put in place to mitigate the problem/s? Consider what is needed to rebuild effectiveness and stability following the challenge. Detail mitigating actions that could be undertaken/or could be put in place to minimize destructive or dysfunctional effects to the organisational system and to help maintain a degree of organisational effectiveness. Explain and justify how/where and why such mitigating actions would be useful to the organisation in managing the impact of this challenge.
c) How would system level repair/resolution be achieved? Once the impact of the challenge on the organisations operations and business activities is understood, and mitigating actions are put in place to manage the effects of the problem then your team needs to ensure the problem is addressed effectively i.e. systemically. What measures can be put in place to ensure a similar problem doesn’t arise again or if it does that it could be managed smoothly with least disruption and uncertainty.
d) What opportunities could emerge from the challenge and how could these be maximized? What can your team see as potential opportunities, lessons or insights to better organisational functioning from the challenge? Can system level improvements be undertaken to advance mitigation activities to constructive change such as improving current competencies, enhancing future effectiveness, building flexibility or leveraging the organisation’s positioning to achieve reduced uncertainty and increased effectiveness.
e) Your team must present and report to senior management i.e. assignment must be in report format. The presentation will be delivered as a group however you will be graded individually on your presentation (10% of the 40%).
Group presentations will be done in tutorials 9 -12 after submission. Presentations must be video, prezi or powerpoint etc. Voiceovers are acceptable as long as they have real time introductions and conclusions. Every member must present at least 5 slides. Questions will be invited. Only those group members participating in the presentation will receive presentations

3. Final EXAM (40%) will require clear explanatory written answers to compound questions. Marks will be given for insightful comprehension and integrated understanding of the course content. Answers will need to draw on course from a number of areas.
All answers must be fully justified and demonstrate a sound understanding of the course material.

• All assignments must be submitted by midnight on the due date via MyUni TurnIt In.
• Limit for each assignment excludes cover page, table of contents, appendices and references.
• Assignment WORD Format, font 12 pt ARIAL narrow, 1.5 line spacing, 2.5 cm margins. • Correct English, spelling, grammar and course concept use are expected – marks will be lost for poor language.
• Referencing must follow the author-date (Harvard) system consistent with management literature.
• In-text citations and bibliographic references must be consistent.
• Any late assignments will loose marks at the rate of 10% of the final grade per day they are late, including any students whose assignments are late because they have failed to submit via the correct avenue i.e. TurnIt In MyUni. • No extensions without a doctor’s certificate