Organisations-Its structures and processes COURSE TUTOR Name: Sayan Banerjee college: Chandragupta institute of Management Studies E-mail:

molebiol@gmail.com, sayan@cimp.ac.in

COURSE AIMS The course aims to equip management students with an enhanced clarity of understanding the macroscopic aspects like organizational structures with its microscopic sub sets like formalization, centralization complexity etc.Hence it becomes very important to understand organizational structures and its sub dimensions, types- its co relations with other aspects like specifically with-innovation, project type, size of the organization etc each of which will be dealt- in depth in this course. Course Outline
Lecture Topics

1) Organizations 2) Organisational structure Key dimensions 3) Organizational structure and its various correlates 4)Structure and Innovation (Tentative)
Teaching Methods The main objective of this course will be to attenuate the students with

important concepts relating to organizational structure and for a better understanding of the concept of organization itself. Classes will be held on a interactive manner.

Session details Topic for Class Discussion / Exercise (N.B., The order of classes is provisional) The topics for class discussion will follow the topics in the following textbook: Hall,R & TolbertP Organisations :Structure and Processes, Prentice Hall 10 th Ed. You are strongly advised to refer to this book for the class

Reference-Hall,R . Organisations :Structure and Processes ,Prentice Hall Inc,Englewood cliffs,1972 .As the book is not in the library the concerned chapters will be xeroxed if needed. .

1. Organisations This class introduces the concept of organisation and reviews the main aspects in the perspective relating to organization . Hall,R & TolbertP Organisations :Structure and Processes, Prentice Hall 10 th Ed. - Chapter 1 (required reading) 2) Organisational structure Key dimensions

Early research on organizational structure, important concepts pertaining to organizational structures namely centralization, complexity, formalization.
Hall,R & TolbertP Organisations :Structure and Processes, Prentice Hall 10 th Ed. - Chapter 2 (required reading)

3)Organisational structure and its various corelates Corelates include technology,Size, Type of work project ,introduction to matrix structure.
Hall,R & TolbertP Organisations :Structure and Processes, Prentice Hall 10 th Ed. - Chapter 3 (required reading)

4)Structure and Innovation (Tentative) (Research paper will be provided) Optimally inductive structures for innovation.Organic Mechanistic structures. It will be a 1.5 credit course.