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Macquarie University

Organisational design: Know your organisation

How do you lead your organisation when today’s work environment is so competitive and complex? When you become responsible for leading an organisation, your most important leadership challenge will be enabling your organisation to deliver on its strategy while ensuring it remains sufficiently agile. This course will prepare you to tackle this challenge. You will examine what organisational culture is, the primary organisational structures, and what we mean by ‘systems’, before building on your foundational knowledge and taking a more strategic perspective. The structured learning activities that complement this course (video lectures, quizzes, discussion prompts and written assessments) will not only prepare you to take your organisation forward in a more strategic direction, but to make better decisions along the way.

Status: Business Systems
Status: Workforce Planning
BeginnerCourse20 hours

Featured reviews

TL

5.0Reviewed Apr 26, 2022

One of the best courses on Coursera. I learned a lot about organisational design, culture and reward systems and how organisations really work.

IC

5.0Reviewed Dec 21, 2018

Learned a lot of practical things that I can apply in my current job. Thank you Professor Lok and the rest of the Macquarie and Coursera team!

ZK

5.0Reviewed Aug 17, 2020

very informative and interesting course. Although I have been working for 9 years in HRM, lots of new information found here and learned things, which will help me for better execution.

OA

5.0Reviewed Aug 20, 2019

Every staff must take this course. The earlier you take in your career life, the better for your progression. It also has applications to entrepreneurial development.

SK

5.0Reviewed May 23, 2019

Learned new perspectives of Strategic HRM and some really helpful management frameworks and concepts which will definitely help me in my career.

CS

5.0Reviewed Jun 27, 2021

This is an excellent course. Highly recommended. Full of practical exercises which can easily be applied to the workplace. Loved it!

CA

5.0Reviewed Sep 8, 2019

Its worth doing this course and i have gained a lot of aspects from the modules which i believe will certainly help me in my career.

AS

5.0Reviewed Oct 24, 2021

An incredibly comprehensive, easy-to-follow and insightful course, breaking down a complex topic in to simple and practical steps. 100% recommend.

VO

5.0Reviewed Nov 29, 2020

I had a great experience of education. It was hard and interesting. Practice tasks was based on my our life experience, and information was useful. Thank you, i will continue for sure

DC

5.0Reviewed Sep 5, 2024

This module was my favorite as I learnt so much on how to be a better leader , how to adapt my leadership style and even to recognize if I am a bad leader by looking at psychopathic traits.

NN

5.0Reviewed Aug 31, 2021

I​ had great pleasure taking this course. I have learned how knowing the organazation is important for choosing the appropriate management strategy that will achieve the business goals .

RV

5.0Reviewed Jan 21, 2026

It is an excellent course, highly useful. I would suggest to update some of the extra resources links. Some of them are quite old and they are not working.

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