LDSL 705 - Organizational Structure/Systems/Environment (6)

Since structure follows strategy, this course builds on LDSL 704 to examine various forms of organizational structure and how these forms allow certain strategies to be more or less successful relative to the organization's external environment. Students explore organizational systems including components, processes, and interactions, as well as technology and its role as a help or substitute for leadership. This course teaches how leaders and followers can work together to create configurations of strategy, structure, technology, and leadership styles that have the greatest likelihood of success in accomplishing the organization's goals while transforming the people of the organization, both followers and outside constituents, to higher levels of satisfaction and performance.