Assignment title: Management
Do only week 4 . Dont need to answer other questions related to video. only do the remaining ones. HI6005 Discussion Board - Week 4
In your blog, you should address the following two sections:
(1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity.
(2) Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.
Visit the following URLs, and use 'Questions to consider' to guide your thinking. Remember you can select the number of activities to use in your blog (i.e., you can either focus on one activity or incorporate the ideas from several activities in one blog).
Activity 1: Structure and strategy
URL: BCG's Yves Morieux view on Organisation Designx Questions to consider: 1 Yves Morieux claims that structure follows strategy. Is this always the case?
Activity 2: Holacracy
URL: Zappos just abolished bosses. Inside tech's latest management craze. http://www.vox.com/2014/7/11/5876235/silicon-valleys-latest-management-craze-holacracy-explained
Questions to consider: 1 What's your understanding of holacracy? How would you describe it compared to bureaucracy and team-based structure? 2 Discuss how Contingency Factors of Organisational Design are at work in the case of Zappos? 3 In what ways do you think innovative culture is related to (agile) organisational structure?