COURSE SYLLABUS

ORGANIZATION THEORY

1	Course Title:	ORGANIZATION THEORY
2	Course Code:	ISL2104
3	Type of Course:	Compulsory
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	2
6	Semester:	4
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	5
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	3
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	English
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. BİLÇİN MEYDAN
16	Course Lecturers:	Prof. Dr. Bilçin Meydan Prof. Dr. Mehmet ERYILMAZ Dr. Öğrt.Üyesi Mehlika Saraç
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	btak@uludag.edu.tr
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	To teach the meaning of organization as structure and organizing as a proces; to introduce the contextual and structural parameters of organization design; to build a practical uncderstanding about organizational design options to the students.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	To build a competency for desinging and redesigning organizational structure and process and also for diagnosing and solving organizational problems arised from structural design.

Learning Outcomes:

1	Understanding organizations as structure and process;
2	Understanding the impact of tthe organizational design on corporate performance;
3	Recognizind Universal and contingent organizational design options ;
4	Understanding the importance of the Environment, technology, size and strategy as contingent factors.;
5	Understanding what formalization is and its effects on structure and daily management. ;
6	Understanding what centratilaziton and decentralization are and their effects on structure and daily management. ;
7	Understanding what differantiation/complexity is and its effects on structure and daily management. ;
8	Learning organizational design models;
9	Understandin weaknesses and strengths aspects of functional, divisional, hybrid and matrix forms. ;
10	Enable students to analize and solve problems steam from organizational designç ;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Organizations as structure and processes
2	The effects of the organizational design on organizational performance
3	Organiztional design : Universal and Contingency Approaches
4	Organizational design: Contingent/contextual imperatives
5	Organizational design: Contingent/contextual imperatives - environment, organizational life cycle and size
6	Contingent/contextual imperatives - technology and strategy
7	Organizational design: Structural components: formalization
8	Organizational design: Structural components: centralization and authority
9	Organizational design: Structural components: Differenciation /complexty
10	Functional form: Advantages and disadvantages
11	Divisional (M) form (product/SBU): Advantages and disadvantages
12	Divisional (M) form (geografic/ customer ): Advantages and disadvantages
13	Hybrid forms: Advantages and disadvantages
14	Matrix- project forms: Advantages and disadvantages

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Richard Daft, Organization Theory and Design, Sixth Edition, South Western College Publishing,1998
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	40
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	60
Total	2	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		60
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course	Written exams with multiple-choised technique.
Information	The academic succession of students evaulate based on mid-term and final exams.

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High