Discussion and Peer to peer responses

Discussions

Question: Discuss the ideas that are essential while designing an organization.

Instructions:

A few general notes about these group discussions:

· Cite your source! (Not citing sources will result in deductions).

· The initial post and peer replies must be different! In other words, do not reuse your initial post for your peer replies.

· Provide concrete examples, perhaps from your own experience or cited from the reading

· Identify consequences or implications

· When completing peer replies, challenge something that has been posted – perhaps by playing devil’s advocate in a professional way

· Pose a related question or issue

· Suggest a different perspective or interpretation

· Pull in related information from other sources with proper citation – books, articles, websites, courses, etc.

· Please note that simply affirming the viewpoints of others does not contribute to online discussion so thus is not counted in relation to grading.

The TurnItIn program will be utilized for discussion posts. Student’s grades will be docked for TurnItIn similarity over 20%.

Topics for discussion will be found in each’s Module’s discussion assignment.

Each Module stands on its own. Thus, you cannot make-up points from a previous Module. Please make every effort to participate in all discussions.

The grading for each Discussion Forum will be broken into to two components. Up to 30 points can be received from the student’s answer to the initial discussion question and up to 20 points will be divided between the student’s two responses to their peers.

See the following Rubric for grading details:

Points	Discussion Posting Grading Rubric To Be Used to Grade Student’s Response to the Discussion Question
25-30	This posting will thoughtfully summarize and evaluate the case assigned, using sound arguments and clear prose. A stellar posting that will contain virtually no grammatical errors or typos. Not only will such a post engage with the ongoing conversation in a rhetorically suitable fashion, it will foster further discussion on the topic, perhaps exploring new lines of argument or different perspectives. This isn't just a response; it's proof that you are facilitating learning both for yourself and your fellow students. This posting corresponds to an A. The word count must be a minimum of 300 words.
20-25	This posting is a competent response to the subject: it's at least 250 to 300 words long, it addresses the question, without going into much detail, and it contributes to the overall conversation as another voice on the subject. This posting amounts to a B.
15-20	This posting responds to the subject. While it may be 200 to 250 words long, more or less, it addresses the question, but does not contribute to the overall conversation as another voice on the subject. This posting simply rehashes the thoughts of others, either the text or peers. It is possible this student read the answers of others to help them formulate their own response. This posting amounts to a C.
0-15	This posting reflects a less-than-adequate engagement with the subject, or is noticeably under the required word count. It does little to advance the discussion underway, and may even detract from it. – Or - No posting, late posting, or a post that is but the briefest nod toward a response

Points per response	Discussion Posting Grading Rubric To Be Used to Grade Student’s Response to Peers (two peer relies required)
5-10	Contributes to discussion with clear, concise comments formatted in an easy to read style that is free of grammatical or spelling errors. Demonstrates analysis of others’ posts; extends meaningful discussion by building on previous posts. This post is 50 - 100 words long. This posting corresponds to an A or B.
0-5	Communicates in friendly, courteous and helpful manner with some errors in clarity or mechanics. Posts shallow contribution to discussion (e.g., agrees or disagrees); does not enrich discussion. This posting amounts to a C. – Or - No posting or late posting or posts that are long, unorganized or rude content that may contain multiple errors or may be inappropriate. This posting amounts to a D or F.

REPLAY FOR THIS DISCUSSIONS

Discussion-1:

Neelima Darla -

Ideas that are Needed While Designing the Organization

Designing an Organization can be considered to be one of the processes for creating a hierarchy in the organization. Based on the roles and job position of the employees they will be placed in the organization. Organization design consists of some of the main elements that are needed to be considered. These elements for designing the organization will also be very helpful for the leaders in the business for the implementation of the chain of command and departments for the companies. The main aspects of the organization structure will be specified mainly in the organizational chart (Endo, 2018). The most and important element for designing an organization structure is work specialization. Mainly business leaders should consider all the main tasks that are to be performed in their job and also should perform all their duties based on their positions. The main purpose of the work specialization is to separate the tasks and assigning those divided tasks to various levels in the organization.

Leaders should also pay more attention to their work and also managers should ensure that all the job roles are adjusted. Group of employees will be working on similar functions in the departments and this will be one of the important elements for the designing of the organization. Teams will be formed with various department members in the compartments and the other crucial element for the organization design is a chain of command. This is mainly what is there in the organization chart so that it will be clear to whom one will report the other (Magalhaes, 2018). Capabilities and abilities of the manager will be considered in the span of control and this is a very considerable element for the organization design. The elements of the design will be mainly specified in the span of control. Managers should also have limited members to oversee to avoid the effectiveness so that it will be easy to identify the issues that are occurred within limited members (Raveendran, 2020). Managing the employees will become easy if the manager can oversee a few members of the team.

References

Endo, T. (2018). Legal structure, business organizations, and lobbying: The Japanese publishing sector, 1990-2001. Business History, 60(4), 492–511. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2017.1330331

Magalhaes, R. (2018). Design Discourse for Organization Design: Foundations in Human-Centered Design. Design Issues, 34(3), 6–16. https://doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00493

Raveendran, M. (2020). Seeds of change: How the current structure shapes the type and timing of reorganizations. Strategic Management Journal (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ), 41(1), 27–54. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.3084

Discussion-2

Reshmitha Ravula - Tuesday, 2 June 2020, 5:08 PM

 

Introduction:

The activity of Organizational Design variables with respect to using external data sources during the time spent recognizing crucial possibilities. The identical Organizational Designs that extension coordinated efforts with external data sources that energize opportunity affirmation are also important in condition abuse. Organizational Design fills in as a commitment contraption, decidedly confining the firm to practically mighty lead. Organizational Design may expand the order over management (Arshi, 2019).

Organizational Design remembers choices about both structure and inspirations for in every practical sense all business affiliations. One of the standard completions of the key propelling powers composing is that the key usage of Organizational Design makes firms too much mighty in case they fight in imperative substitutes. The middle idea is that the Design of an Organization needs to oblige its philosophy and other chance components. Designs that fit pass on better cash related execution. The Organizational Design to empower the using of the data on external sources in the open entryway abuse process (Cassidy, 2019).

Conclusion:

Organizational Designs oftentimes adjust to this through assistant partition. This suggests the R&D division has low formalization, to deal with the high powerlessness of its tasks, while the legitimate pieces of the affiliation. Research on Organizational capacity to utilize two hands and its helper parts also includes the essential employment of Organizational Design in adequately accomplishing capacity to utilize two hands. The cut-off point is explained in our accentuation on particularly described Organizational Design elements. Organizational Design near with the firm-express capacities that have commonly been central in the KBV. The joining of customers transforms into an advancing and progressively proficient business activity inside the association, helper fragments of our Organizational Design structure become dynamically noteworthy (Arshi, 2019).

References

Arshi T, Burns P. Designing an Organization for Innovation in Emerging Economies: The Mediating Role of Readiness for Innovation. Organizations & Markets in Emerging Economies. 2019;10(1):31-56. doi:10.15388/omee.2019.10.00002.

Cassidy C, Steenbeek A, Langille D, Martin-Misener R, Curran J. Designing an intervention to improve sexual health service use among university undergraduate students: a mixed methods study guided by the behaviour change wheel. BMC public health. 2019;19(1):1734. doi:10.1186/s12889-019-8059-4.