Organisational design: Know your organisation
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Course overview
- Provider
- Coursera
- Course type
- Free online course
- Level
- Beginner
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 20 hours
- Certificate
- Paid Certificate Available
- Course author
- Professor Jaco Lok
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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
Description
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.
