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ASSIGNMENT DETAILS This is an individual assignment. Each week, based on the hour of e-learning activity that has been prescribed, you are required actively to engage with the material by writing a short discussion of how the material that was prescribed relates to the topic(s) of this subject and how it relates to your own personal experience. You create a blog each week where you provide evidence that you have engaged in this way with the prescribed e-learning activity. In the blog, you mention any extra material relevant to the activity that you have researched on the net. These blogs are assessed in the following way: 1. Blogs are spot checked by your lecturer. 2. By the end of Week 6, students choose their best two blogs and submit them as an assignment (due Friday Week 6). Each blog should be in two sections: Section 1 lists the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e- learning activity. In Section 2 you apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organization you know and to the topic(s) of this subject. The written report of your two best blogs needs to be 1½spaced and has a 1,000 word limit. 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 2)        Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an Visit the following URLs, and use 'Questions to consider' to guide your thinking. Activity 1: Structure and strategy URL: BCG's Yves Morieux view on Organisation Designx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7d1dzOKmw Questions to consider: 1. Yves Morieux claims that structure follows strategy. Is this always the case?   prescribed e-learning activity.  organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.   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?