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HI6005 Discussion Board - Week1
In your blog, you should address the following two sections:
(1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity.
(2) Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this
subject.
Visit the following URLs, and use 'Questions to consider' to guide your thinking.
Activity 1: Ford and Taylorism
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PdmNbqtDdI
Questions to consider:
1. Would workers in Australia, America or Europe accept the Taylorism in this form
today?
2. Consider the design of scripts for use in Call Centres, can you see Taylorism in
that? Explain.
3. This ‘clip’ is showing history from 100 years ago. Some would say that ‘the world has moved on’ and these ideas are out of
date. However, could there be parts of the world today for which these ideas might be just what they need? Explain.
……………..
HI6005 Discussion Board - Week 4
In your blog, you should address the following two sections:
1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity.
2) Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the
topic(s) of this subject.
Visit the following URLs, and use 'Questions to consider' to guide your thinking.
Activity 1: Structure and strategy
URL: BCG’s Yves Morieux view on Organisation
Designx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7d1dzOKmw
Questions to consider:
1. Yves Morieux claims that structure follows strategy. Is this always the case?
Activity 2: Holacracy
URL: Zappos just abolished bosses. Inside tech's latest management
craze. http://www.vox.com/2014/7/11/5876235/silicon-valleys-latest-management-craze-holacracy-
explained
Questions to consider:
1. What’s your understanding of holacracy? How would you describe it compared to bureaucracy and team-
based structure?
2. Discuss how Contingency Factors of Organisational Design are at work in the case of Zappos?
3. In what ways do you think innovative culture is related to (agile) organisational structure?

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