A blog consisting of two paragraphs first of 200 words having key ideas from the you tube videos or texts. 2nd paragraph of 300 words illustrating applications of the key ideas to an organisation like Zappos.com or McDonald or IBM.. Atleast six references with Harvard style 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. Remember you can select the number of activities to use in your blog (i.e., you can either focus on one activity or incorporate the ideas from several activities in one blog). 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?