STOA 603: Strategy and Organizational Analysis Report a Broken Link

How and why do organizations function as they do? What are the links among their environments, strategies, and structures? This course offers answers to these questions described in a framework designed to improve organizational effectiveness. The course diagnoses and analyzes how implementing organizational strategies effectively often depends on fitting specific environmental factors with organizational structure and process variables.

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Supplementary Readings


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Barrett, R. (2017). The values driven organization: Culture, health, employee well-being as a pathway to sustainable performance (2nd ed.). Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.

You may wish to borrow this publication from your local university library.

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