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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Designing the Organization

Organizations are complex and can be difficult to manage well, so managers need tools to help them better understand and deal with the many complexities and challenges associated with organizational life. In this course, you will learn theories, principles, and frameworks that will help you design more effective organizations. You will be able to: - Analyze organizations from multiple perspectives to better understand business challenges - Strategically plan for effective organizational governance - Develop systems to plan for growth and change - Understand implications of the external environment on business and strategically respond to these factors This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admission into these programs and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/.

Status: Business Management
Status: Governance
BeginnerCourse13 hours

Featured reviews

LA

5.0Reviewed Jul 15, 2017

Professor Leblebici is incredible teacher, and the Courses' materials are so powerful, and very important to learn how to implement them almost in any type of business!

WR

5.0Reviewed Jun 25, 2019

I really learnt many useful things and skills by this course. Really thanks your Coursera team for giving us this chance to complete our education while sitting at home. THANKS!

PA

5.0Reviewed Nov 18, 2021

This course is very well designed. It makes you think and understand the main ponder points you need to think about when designing or redesigning the organization.

SG

5.0Reviewed Jul 29, 2019

Thanks for offering a useful course with lots of supporting videos, presentations, pdf files, and materials to test my comprehension level. Would definitely recommend.

SN

5.0Reviewed Feb 10, 2021

Not only does it cover organizational design and structures, but is more holistic and discusses the external environment, innovation, and disruptors.

DS

5.0Reviewed Apr 27, 2020

It was the hardest, but best course so far. Surely, it will be very useful to apply in any context. It gives one satisfaction to better understand leaders, organizations, and what could be better.

IS

4.0Reviewed Dec 11, 2016

This course was good and the professor did a good job explaining content, however, it didn't really seem like useful information to me since it was extremely theoretical.

AA

5.0Reviewed Apr 7, 2024

Loved the content covered in this course! And it was very thoroughly explained - very grateful to the education and production team that made this happen!

KB

4.0Reviewed May 3, 2019

I enjoyed this course's focus on design. The videos were useful and concise, as were the readings, and the assignments were structured well to make you think.

AC

4.0Reviewed Jul 22, 2020

Very interesting course. It gives solid foundations for understanding how organization are designed and how to adapt when external changes are faced. Recommended.

MW

4.0Reviewed May 14, 2017

I really liked this course and will be retaining my notes from it. I believe my notes will help somewhere down the line in my professional career.

HA

5.0Reviewed Dec 10, 2020

This was my first Coursera and iMBA course and it was a great introduction to an MBA in my opinion. Lots of useful and revealing information about organizations.

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