STRUCTURAL CONFIGURATIONS AND THEIR EVOLUTION Teaching unitCourses:BUSINESS MANAGEMENTYear: Year 1 of Bachelor's in Business StatisticsDegree: Bachelor's in Business StatisticsBUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND ORGANIZATIONYear: Year 1 of Bachelor's in Business Administration and ManagementDegree: Bachelor's in Business Administration and ManagementDescriptionStudy of the main basic structural configurations and the current organizational tendencies. Design and update of the organization structure of a business in function of their evolution along time.ObjectivesIn front of a certain case study, the student would be able to design and update the organization structure making it suitable to the organization development and outline them through an appropriate organization chart; thinking, besides, over the suitability or not of the utilization of some design parameters according to the contingencies.Comprehend the importance and the need to organize and coordinate the work. Identify the different coordination mechanisms and assess their application along the development process of the business.Identify the main parameters of organization design and assess the convenience of their application attending to contingency facts which condition the effectiveness of the organizational design.To know the main organizational structure and identify the parameters design which characterize them and the contingency facts under which they operate effectivelySubjectsLecture topicsThe simple structureThe machine and professional bureaucracyThe divisional formThe innovative organization and adhocracyBeyond the configurations: the pentagon forceStructural configuration evolution and new formsLaboratory topicsCooperative learning: theory reviewCase analysis: organization evolution and designOrganization chart design