Organizational Structure and Processes: Conceptual Models, Assessment and Diagnostic

Recommended Prerequisites

Organizational Psychology

Teaching Methods

Lectures. Debates. Individual and group activities (e.g., case studies, analysis / discussion of texts, simulations, role-playing, exercises based on measurement instruments).

Learning Outcomes

Identify / characterize basic components of the organizational structure, describe the impact of its main determinants, and identify the organizational configurations proposed by Mintzberg

- Explain the genesis and the development of a group; identify types and functions of groups in organizations and characterize group functioning models identifying input variables, mediators / moderators (processes / emergent states) and output variables, and discussing, based on literature, their interrelationships

- Indicate and discuss critically the leadership approaches

- Define conflict and conflict types; recognize the stages of the conflict process and identify conflict handling strategies and their potential effects; recognize the role of third party intervention and identify third party intervention types and styles

- Recognize measurement instruments of organizational processes

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Organizational Structure and Organizational Configurations

- Basic components and main determinants of the organizational structure

- Mintzberg’s Organizational Configurations

2. Organizational Processes

2.1. Groups in Organizations

- The group as a system: models of group functioning and its components

- Input variables, mediators / moderators and group results: some structural and context variables; processes and emergent states; effectiveness

- Group Development: approaches and perspectives

- Types and functions of groups in organizations

2.2. Conflict

- Conflict and conflict management: types of conflict; conflict as a process; conflict handling strategies and their potential effects; intervention of a third party

2.3. Leadership

- Leadership approaches: traits perspective, approaches focused on leadership styles, situational and contingent approaches, models of charismatic leadership and transformational leadership; "post-heroic" approaches

Head Lecturer(s)

Paulo Renato Martins Ribeiro Silva Lourenço

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Frequency: 50.0%
This assignment is a group work and includes a paper on one topic proposed by the teacher, should be structured as an Article and should be synthesized in a Poster to be presented in a class: 50.0%

Bibliography

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Mintzberg, H.(1983).Structure in fives: Designing Effective Organizations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Mathieu, J., Gallagher, P., Domingo, M., & Klock, E.(2019).Embracing Complexity:Reviewing the Past Decade of Team Effectiveness Research. Annual Review of Org. Psy. and Org. Behav, 6(1),17-46

Rico, R., De la Hera, C. & Tabernero, C.(2011).Work Team Effectiveness: a review of research from the last decade (1999-2009).Psychology in Spain,15(1),57-79.

Robbins, S., & Judge, T.(2017).Organizational Behavior(17th Ed.). Harlow:Pearson