After taking this course, students should be able to:
- Identify different organizational aspects and perspectives on organizations
- Identify different managerial techniques to enhance production and human efficiency
- Understand the differences and interrelations between the most influential organizational and strategic management theories/paradigms
- Understand, explain and apply the different theoretical foundations for analysing and classifying organizations and strategies
- Understand and explain how firms achieve competitive advantages and how such advantages can be sustained over time.
- Put theory to practice by analysing concrete problems within organizations
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The course Organization & Behavior focuses on the internal organization of firms (organization) and how firms can achieve sustainable competitive advantages in different markets (strategic management). In this introductory course, the development of management practices from the early 20th century to more contemporary strategic management practices is being described and studied. By focusing on the developments over time, the course focuses on the underlying assumptions of the different theories regarding the nature of human behavior and competition between firms. Consequently, students may develop a framework that helps them to evaluate the effectiveness and purposefulness of operational and top level managerial decision-making.
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Lectures, tutorials, presentations
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