The main contents of the course are the following:
- The basic issues in organizing: purpose, specialization and coordination, employee and stakeholder participation (effectiveness, efficiency, equity)
- Theories concerning organization and technology (in particular information technology – IT). The organization-technology entanglement.
- IT evolution in enterprises: from the support to operations and production to the support of decision making in strategy and planning. IT economics.
- Internal environment: managing the people. Policies concerning recruiting, development and compensation. Approaching smart working. Key competences for the digital trasformation.
- The decision making process and the organization: degrees of de-/centralization, organizational levels, staff and line. Knowledge and problem solving strategies. The issues concerning knowledge and competence management.
- The external environment and interorganizational relations: supply chain, networks, business ecosystems. International environment.
- Organizational change, innovation and organizational learning: balancing exploitation and esploration activities (ambidextrous organization).
- Organizational implications of the digital transformation of a firm.
- IT at the macro level: e-Government and participation.
- Power, control and conflict in organizations. ITs and “surveillance capitalism”: etical and legal aspects of ubiquitous digital technologies.

Franco Isotta, La progettazione organizzativa, CEDAM 2011, limitatamente ai capitoli indicati dal docente: capitoli n. 2, 3, 7, 9, 11
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