Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Liverpool Business School

Learning Methods

Workshop

Module Offerings

7213LBSMSC-JAN-MTP

7213LBSMSC-OCT-MTP

Aims

This module will enable learners to:

  • Critically evaluate models of organisational design to facilitate efficient workflow that promotes collaborative working across functions.
  • Critically analyse process improvement methodologies that support organisational effectiveness and performance.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Develop a critical understanding of the theory and conceptual framework of organisation design and critically review assumptions.
2.
Formulate decisions and apply appropriate organisational design concepts, structures, relationships, processes and systems to develop organisational sustainable responses in the face of disruptive change.
3.
Develop and use an improvement approach, demonstrating creative problem solving to formulate Organisational Development practice-based solutions and process improvement.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
Organisational design principles, improvement methods, stakeholder management, strategies for collaborative working.
Module Overview:
This module will enable learners to:
  • Critically evaluate models of organisational design to facilitate efficient workflow that promotes collaborative working across functions.
  • Critically analyse process improvement methodologies that support organisational effectiveness and performance.

This module is a specialist module on the SPPA/MSc programme for the Organisational Development pathway. The module will build upon previous Organisational Development learning and will develop learners' capabilities in organisational design and process improvement.  

Assessments

Presentation