How do you lead your organisation when today’s work environment is so competitive and complex? When you become responsible for leading an organisation, your most important leadership challenge will be enabling your organisation to deliver on its strategy while ensuring it remains sufficiently agile. This course will prepare you to tackle this challenge. You will examine what organisational culture is, the primary organisational structures, and what we mean by ‘systems’, before building on your foundational knowledge and taking a more strategic perspective. The structured learning activities that complement this course (video lectures, quizzes, discussion prompts and written assessments) will not only prepare you to take your organisation forward in a more strategic direction, but to make better decisions along the way.
Este curso faz parte do Programa de cursos integrados Leading: Human Resource Management and Leadership
Organisational design: Know your organisation
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Programa de cursos integrados Leading: Human Resource Management and LeadershipUniversidade Macquarie
Informações sobre o curso
5.0
27 classificações
O que você vai aprender
Define the key organisational capabilities required for a firm’s positioning strategy as the anchoring point for leading an organisation
Assess the degree of alignment between key capabilities and organisational architecture (culture, structure, people practices, systems)
Identify the organisational misalignment issues that a leader should prioritize and focus their change plan on
Develop and present concrete, suitable, and feasible organisational change recommendations that can resolve organisational misalignment issues
Habilidades que você terá
Value ChainOrganisational leadershipOrganisational alignmentChange planning
Programa - O que você aprenderá com este curso
Semana
15 horas para concluir
Organisational alignment
Welcome to your first week of the Know your organisation course. Have you ever wondered what it means to be more strategic as a leader? What differentiates a leader from a strategic leader? Of course, this label can mean all sorts of things; some people seem to have started using it simply because it sounds good! But when it comes to leading an organisation, being "strategic" does have a specific meaning. It is about ensuring that your organisation is fully focused on executing its business strategy. What does this involve exactly? How do you make sure that your organisation can deliver on the business strategy? This week you learn to understand the organisation as consisting of a number of elements: people, structure, culture, and systems. Each of these elements will be covered in depth in weeks 2-5 of the course. In this first week, you will take a broader perspective across them as a basis for understanding the importance of aligning them in such a way that they can enable the execution of the business strategy. This focus on alignment brings us to the central concept for this week: key capabilities. This week you will learn what key capabilities are, why they are so important for strategically focusing your organisation, and how you can identify them. If you learn to master the ability to clearly define a set of key capabilities for any given strategy, and are able to align your organisation to these, you will become a truly effective leader, worthy of the term "strategic".
7 vídeos (total de (Total 28 mín.) min), 7 leituras, 2 testes
7 videos
Week 1 Outline - Organisational Alignment1min
Organisational alignment6min
The importance of key capabilities5min
How to identify key capabilities3min
Value chain analysis5min
Habit corner – sample2min
7 leituras
Become a Global MBA learner1min
Course overview1min
Learning activities and assessment1min
Explore organisational alignment40min
The importance of key capabilities15min
Explore key capabilities15min
Explore value chain analysis20min
1 exercício prático
Recall: Organisational alignment15min
Semana
24 horas para concluir
Organisational culture
What do you think is the most challenging aspect of making sure that your organisation can deliver on its business strategy? Many senior executives would definitely say: "organisational culture". When your organisational culture works to support your business strategy it gives you a huge advantage; when it doesn't it can spell disaster. So what is "organisational culture" exactly and what is so challenging about it? And how do you know if your culture is aligned with your strategy? These are some of the key questions that you will grapple with this week. You will learn to apply a powerful diagnostic tool for identifying your predominant culture type, and for assessing whether you should try to change it or not. You will also learn a number of important change levers that you can influence if you do decide culture change is needed. Be careful though! The road of culture change can be treacherous. This week you will learn how to navigate it better.
5 vídeos (total de (Total 29 mín.) min), 3 leituras, 2 testes
5 videos
What is organisational culture?3min
Why organisational culture is important5min
Types of organisational culture7min
Levers of cultural change10min
3 leituras
Explore organisational culture30min
Explore strategic fit40min
Explore culture change30min
1 exercício prático
Recall: Organisational culture15min
Semana
34 horas para concluir
Organisational structure
What would you do first if you wanted to fundamentally change the direction of your organisation? Well, if you are like most leaders, you would definitely consider changing the structure of the organisation. But when you dig a bit deeper into this topic, you will quickly discover that there are a huge number of structural options to choose from. So how do you know which option is best? What are the main types of organisational structure, and what are their advantages and disadvantages? How do you make sure that your organisation structure enables your business strategy, instead of making strategy execution more difficult? These are the key questions that you will engage this week. You will learn about the key trade-offs involved in organisational structure decisions, and how to balance these trade-offs in relation to your business strategy. And you will learn to apply a powerful 4-step process for developing an effective organisational structure for your organisation. Even if you are not in a position yet to directly influence the structure of your organisation, wouldn't it be great to at least know what the structure of your organisation should be, theoretically speaking? This week is focused on just that.
4 vídeos (total de (Total 25 mín.) min), 2 leituras, 2 testes
4 videos
Key trade-offs in organisational structure7min
Types of organisational structure6min
Advantages and disadvantages of different structure types8min
2 leituras
Explore key trade-offs20min
Explore types of organisational structure40min
2 exercícios práticos
Recall organisational structure15min
Week 3 Graded quizs
Semana
44 horas para concluir
Organisational control systems
What are systems for exactly? This can be quite a tricky question because it obviously depends on the particular system we are talking about. Yet, from a management perspective there is a straightforward general answer to this question: systems are there to control performance and risk. This week you will learn what this means exactly, and what the most important implications are for how you design your systems around your business strategy. You will learn to understand systems more broadly than just IT systems, and how to deploy them effectively to manage and control performance and risk. An important part of this involves deciding on the key indicators that you want to track, and how you want to report information that is strategically relevant. Too many business leaders drown in numbers to the point where they can't see the wood from the trees. This week is focused on helping you design systems that can keep you focused on seeing the wood instead of the trees.
3 vídeos (total de (Total 15 mín.) min), 3 leituras, 2 testes
3 videos
The four types of control systems6min
The balanced score card6min
3 leituras
Explore types of control systems20min
Explore the balanced score card30min
Become a Global MBA learner10min
2 exercícios práticos
Recall: Organisational control systems15min
Week 4 Graded quizs
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Learned a lot of practical things that I can apply in my current job. Thank you Professor Lok and the rest of the Macquarie and Coursera team!
Best course for C level candidates and C level aspirants too.\n\nAm really enjoying the subject..\n\nThank you.
Instrutores
Professor Jaco Lok
Department of ManagementMacquarie University
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Become an adaptable leader, ready to face the challenges of the disrupted workplace. This specialization will equip you with the skills to lead and navigate the ever-changing global environment we now work in. Through four themed courses you will: learn how to motivate staff with meaningful work (Become a Meaning Maker); better enable your organisation to deliver on its strategic objectives (Know Your Organisation); harness your team’s diversity and use teamwork to innovate and increase your organisation’s output (Know Your People); and strengthen your personal leadership skills (Adapt Your Leadership Style).
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