MIE459 Organizational Theory & Design

MIE459 Course Description:

This course examines how engineers as managers can create more effective organizations. We focus on the following areas for improving organizational effectiveness:

• The role of Management in Organizational Design
• Organizational Design and Business Strategy
• Alternative organizational structures, such as functional, divisional, geographic, matrix, and horizontal structures
• Techniques for managing an organization’s dependencies on its external (resource) environment
• Manufacturing and Service Organizations
• Managing Technology in organizations
• Conflict, power, and politics within an organization
• The role of innovation, managing change and organizational learning.

This courses was built on past research and hands on strategic management practice in variety of organizations.

• Winter 2014
  • The Keys to NFL’s Organizational Success
  • Online Shopping – Amazon, eBay
  • Video-subscription Services
  • The Emergence of Global Airline Alliances (GALs) – Rise of Star Alliance
  • Role of Women in an Organization and How it has Changed over the Past 100 Years
  • Military Organization of the NAVY Seals
  • How Elon Musk Sets up his Organizations
  • Upper Management Leadership Styles – Impact on Organizational Design
  • Recruitment Industry
  • Clothing Industry
  • How Organizational Design in

• Winter 2016
  •  Western Work Culture China
  • Apples Success
  • IPhone.
  • Target Canada.
  • Work Culture
  • Startups Demystified
  • Googles Alphabet
  • Uber Ride to Top
  • Enron
  • Impact Labor Costs
  • Rome Military – Secrets of Organizational Success
  • Aviation Safety Culture
  • Ghengis Khan Leadership Style
  • Leadership in Sports
  • E-Commerce China
  • Team Charter Petrobas Corrupt
  • Google Docs Impact
  • USA Veterans

• Winter 2017                                                                                                                                          
  • Solar Energy
  • Mongol empire expansion and organization (12th and 13th century)
  • McDonalds Organizational Approach
  • Acquisition Analysis
  • Canada Post Operations (past, present, Future)
  • Prison-Industrial complex (private prisons in the US)
  • Gambinbo Crime Family
  • Bombardier Problems With C Series
  • Have big banks become “too big to fail”?
  • Walmart Organizational Approach
  • Uber’s organizational structural
  • Impact Brexit on GM
  • AirBnB Disruptive Innovation
  • Dictatorships (Hitler and Pinochet)
  • Zara (Past Present Future) – the worlds biggest fashion retailer
  • 16- Samsung Electronics

• Winter 2018                                                                                                                                          
  • Indigo: How well does the corporate Culture Support its Success
  • An Analysis of Uber’s Organizational Structure and Culture
  • Amazon: Gold Standard Culture for Innovation
  • Analyzing Amazon’s Organizational Structure
  • TESLA Evolving from The Dealership Model
  • FedEx Operational Design Characteristics
  • Integrating Banks into The Digital Age (Focusing on RBC Bank)
  • FedEx Operational Success factors
  • Rise of a Typical Chinese Manufacturing Tycoon
  • Google Critical Success Factors
  • E-Commerce in China
  • The East India Company (EIC)
  • Starbucks Organizational Design Approach
  • Pepsi Beverages Canada
  • Valve – Successes, Failures & Impacts of Digital Gaming
  • Domino’s Pizza Success Analysis
  • Restricting for Global Success: Huawei’s OD Strategy
  • Holacracy: Fad or Future