成人大片

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

Weekly lectures begin Friday, July 31 from 1 pm till 3 pm.
Napier 102, Nth Tce Campus.

Tutorial sessions commence week 2.

• To introduce students to the principles of organisational theory as they contribute to the interpretation and analysis of organisational dynamics.
• To facilitate understanding of an organisation’s dynamic influences in relation to other areas of management study such as organisational behaviour, human resource management and strategic management.
• To present theories of organisational dynamics from the approach of holistic enterprise analysis.
• To enable students to have an informed perspective on the influences and implications of dynamic change in organisational sustainability and survival.

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. Your quizzes require you access to MyUni and are 12% of your assessment and a HURDLE REQUIREMENT.

Please ensure you have access before the start of semester. This is your responsibility.

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.

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.

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.

1. Quizzes – 12 x 1% (12%) assess your ability to recognise correct information and demonstrate understanding of course material. This assessment is a hurdle requirement. You must achieve at least 50% of the total 20% possible for these quizzes in order to be eligible to sit the exam and therefore pass the course.
2. Tutorial presentations  (20% - 2 x10% for each presentation). Each tutorial you will be required to bring prepared answers for set tutorial questions (available on MyUni).
   
3. Organisational Systems Project (20%) requires you to choose a local small business and consider the interactions and activities undertaken in order to create value. You will explain and illustrate the business from a systems perspective.
4. Challenge and Contingencies GROUP Project (30%) assignment seeks to have you, as a group, consider how your organisation (from the Org’ Design Project) will cope with an organisational challenge. You are required to discuss a) how the challenge will impact effectiveness, b) what action could be taken to mitigate the problem and c) what opportunities may emerge. 10 peer-reviewed academic journal references are required.
5. Final long answer EXAM (28%) will have 4 questions worth 7 marks each. The answers will require an insightful comprehension of the course material.

1. Quizzes (12%) There is a quiz corresponding to each lecture (12 in total). Each quiz is worth 1% - 1% gratis for completing them all. The quizzes are based on material in the text book. The quizzes for each intensive are due the week BEFORE the assignments. This assessment is a hurdle requirement. You must achieve at least 50% of the total 20% possible for these quizzes in order to be eligible to sit the exam and therefore pass the course. Quizzes can be saved and returned to before you finally submit them however once you submit them they are final.

2. Tutorial presentations (20% - 2 x 10% for each presentation). Each tutorial you will be required to bring prepared answers for set tutorial questions (available on MyUni). In the tutorials you will participate in small group discussions for 30 mins when you will be required to reflect and collaborate on your answers with your peers. After that discussion and negotiation, one group each tutorial will be selected to present an answer as a comprehensive and understandable explanation to the class. Your grade will be based on the clarity of your explanation, use of constructive examples and presentation of the answer. You will be required to present TWICE (2 x 5%) over the semester designated on a random basis.

3. Organisational System Design (20%) Due midnight Sunday August 23 (3 pages limit).
This assignment requires you to choose a small local business and consider the interactions and activities undertaken in order to create value. You need to explain (in no more than 2 pages) and illustrate (one A4 page only) the business from a systems perspective.

Your organisation must be an SME (with no more than 250 employees) and you must provide a logical, understandable explanation of the system relative to the activities your organisation undertakes. Do NOT use a franchise – if you are unsure CHECK with your tutor.

5. Challenges and Contingencies (30%) (to be completed in GROUPS of 3. Due midnight Sunday October 8. (5 pages limit). In this assignment you are required to explain how the organisation from your first assignment (choose one of the three) will manage one of the following challenges;


Consider the actions which you think would need to be undertaken to rebuild effectiveness and stability following the crisis. You are required to explain and justify as if you were the top management team.  Discuss the challenge in terms of course concepts such as complexity, formalisation, centralisation, specialisation/differentiation, internal & external environment, authority/control, integration/coordination, value, efficiency, stakeholders, uncertainty, dynamics etc. Justify your views with detailed and insightful explanations.



6. Final short-answer EXAM (28%) will have 4 questions worth 7 marks each.
Long answer questions will require answers which draw on a number of areas of course content. You are required to demonstrate an integrated understanding of the course material in your answers. One - two pages for each answer should be sufficient to demonstrate your understanding of the course material.

All assignments must be submitted by midnight on the due date via MyUni TurnItIn. 

• Limit for each assignment excludes cover page, table of contents, appendices and references.
• Assignment WORD Format - use ARIAL 12 pt, 1.5 line spacing, 2.5 cm margins.
• Referencing must follow the author-date (Harvard) system consistent with management literature.
• In-text citations and bibliographic references must be consistent.
• Penalties apply for incorrect formatting

Late Assignment Submission - If you require an extension you need to ask the course coordinator before the due date.  If you are having trouble seek help early.

• Any late assignments will accrue late 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. TurnItIn in MyUni.
• No extensions after the due date will be given without a doctor’s certificate.  Assessment requirements are known from the start of the semester so you have plenty of warning about assignments.