The assignment has two parts each required 500 words
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
1. Blog 500 words
(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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7d1dzOKmw
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:
2. What’s your understanding of holacracy? How would you describe it compared to bureaucracy and team-
based structure?
3. Discuss how Contingency Factors of Organisational Design are at work in the case of Zappos?
4. In what ways do you think innovative culture is related to (agile) organisational structure?
2.Blog 500 words
(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: Linear Programming Word Problem
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ACJ9ewUC6U
Questions to consider:
1. What insights into rational decision making approach can you draw from this video?
2. What would be the limitations of linear programming?
3. In what kinds of situation could the linear programming be useful to decision making?
