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 organisation 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 900 word limit. Activity 1: Structure and strategy URL: BCG's Yves Morieux view on Organisation Designx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7d1dzOKmw Questions to consider: Yves Morieux claims that structure follows strategy. Is this always the case? Activity 4: Toyota's corporate culture and the problem of spreading its culture URL: 'MIT's Steven Spear Discusses Toyota's Corporate Culture' (Interview on Bloomberg TV) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCaKFPjfG7s Question to consider: How would you describe Toyota's culture using the seven dimensions of organisational culture and/ or the Cultural Web?