PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND DESIGN

The teaching falls within the subjects of the third year and is common for students of the degree course in
[CT7] CHEMISTRY AND SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES – Common path degree and in [CT8] PHYSICAL ENGINEERING – Common path degree.

Its objective is to illustrate to learners the foundations of economics in general and of environmental economics, those of business economics, and, above all, planning and organizational models.

In particular, the training targets are to provide the basic tools for acquiring the fundamental and necessary knowledge for the organization of a company, or for the definition of the structure useful for facing and overcoming the challenges posed by the reference market, preceded by a brief presentation of the company and its main classifications and forms of management

Particular attention is paid to planning, understood as that activity in which the entrepreneur, relating to internal and external factors to the organization, which to name are the characteristics that it must assume.

The achievement of these objectives allows the student to have the minimum bases for the knowledge of the company organization, on the ways in which it must be structured, and how the market must be analyzed in order to be able to achieve an optimal match between one's offer and what is required the market.

Attendance and active participation in the educational activity proposed by the course (frontal lessons), and individual study will allow students to:

1 Knowledge and understanding

1.1. The fundamental concepts and principles underlying economics and business economics, in order to understand what a company is and how it works
1.2. Define what an organization is
1.3. Identify the determinants of organizational design
1.4. Understand organizational strategies
1.5. Know the models applied in companies

2 Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

2.1 Know a company and a corporate organization;
2.2. Apply the principles of sustainability to a company activity;
2.3. Knowing how to identify the characteristics of the internal and external environment of the company

3 Judgment skills

3.1. Knowing how to identify the elements that characterize an economic system
3.2. Knowing how to identify the organizational models of a company
3.3. Knowing how to identify the determinants of sustainable entrepreneurial development
3.4. Know how to determine a marketing strategy

Knowledge of the fundamentals of economics is desirable, with reference to the ability to analyze economic phenomena in a systemic and critical key, or to be able, on the one hand, to formulate economic problems in structured and formalized terms, according to the analysis models theory most shared by economists, and on the other hand, to identify the fields of applicability of these models and the value judgments underlying them and the consequent plurality of points of view in the description of economic phenomena. The issues just mentioned will, in any case, be resumed and addressed during the course of the lessons.

Knowledge of the basic notions of law is desirable, and in particular it is considered necessary to have learned the concepts of law (as a phenomenon of significant importance that governs every moment of our life and the reality in which we live), norm (i.e. the requirements underlying the legal rules that make up the legal system itself), the sources of law (or any act or fact suitable for producing legal rules in a certain legal and social system), and legal system (i.e. the set of rules governing the organization and life of the State and of other human organizations having similar characteristics).

It is desirable to possess the basis of business economics, with reference to the notion of economic activity, of a company and related classification criteria.

Knowledge of the main issues related to environmental sustainability is desirable.

With regard to the issues mentioned above, please note that they will, in any case, be resumed and dealt with during the course of the lessons.

Therefore, the student who accesses this course has a minimum knowledge of the discipline of economics and the principles of environmental sustainability.

There are no mandatory prerequisites.

a) Fundamentals of Economics

1. The definition
2. The economic system
3. Microeconomics vs. Macroeconomics
4. The correct allocation of resources

b) Fundamentals of environmental economics

1. Relationship between economics and the environment
2. Environment and ethics
3. The limits to economic development
4. Economic growth and population growth and the environment

c) Fundamentals of business economics

1. What is a company
2. The classification of companies
3. The economic entity
4. The legal entity
5. Environmental and social reporting indicators

d) Business Organization

1. The nature of organizations and organizational design activities
2. Organizational design strategies
3. The fundamental elements of a structure

e) Analysis of the external environment

1. What is an open system
2. What is the organizational environment
3. What are the areas of influence of an organization

f) Internal environment analysis

1. The distinction between characteristic and auxiliary processes
2. The fundamental functions

g) interorganizational relations

1. What they are
2. The added value of an effective relationship between organizations

h) the characteristics of a sustainable organization

1. Sustainability: definition and profiles

2. Environment: nature and characteristics

3. The objectives pursued by a sustainable organization

i) Organizational design

What it is
The design variables (endogenous and exogenous)
The design criticalities

l) information coordination

Vertical
Horizontal

l) Models

The elementary model
The functional model
The divisional model
The matrix model
The “network” model
The holacratic model

Stefano Sassone, Principles of Economics and Business Management, 2nd edition (To be released in Septeber 2024

The verification of learning will take place through an oral exam, articulated according to open questions posed by the teacher.

During the exam session, questions will be asked to the Student with the aim of ascertaining the knowledge of the topics illustrated and explained during the lessons.

The following parameters will be considered as final evaluation parameters: a) the modality of presentation of the scientific contents; b) the acquisition of a formal language appropriate to the issues addressed; c) the acquisition of the skills transmitted.

The questions posed in the exam session will concern the parts in which the course is divided, in order to verify the correct learning of the concepts presented during the semester.

An intermediate written waiver is foreseen.

The course is divided into lectures.

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