Universidad de Jaén

Part 1. Organization design

Unit 1. Basic parts of the organization

1.1. Introduction: Organization function and structure

1.2. Organizations´coordinating mechanisms

1.3. Basic parts of the organization

1.4. The organization as a system of flows

Unit 2. The design parameters

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Design of Positions: Job specialization

2.3. Design of Positions: Behavior formalization

2.4. Design of Positions: Training and indoctrination

Unit 3. Differentiation and integration

3.1. Horizontal differentiation: Design of Superstructure

3.2. Unit grouping

3.3. Unit size

3.4. Vertical differentiation: Design of Decision-Making System

3.5. Control in decision making

3.6. Types of decentralization

3.7. Integration: Design of Lateral Linkages

Unit 4. The contingency factors

4.1. Introduction

4.2. The effective structuring of organizations

4.3. Age and size

4.4. Technical system

4.5. Environment

4.6. Power

Unit 5. Structural configurations

5.1. The simple structure

5.2. The machine bureaucracy

5.3. The professional bureaucracy

5.4. The divisionalized form

5.5. The adhocracy and new organizational forms

Part 2. Organizational functioning

Unit 6. Motivation, leadership and communication

6.1. The applications of motivation in organizations

6.2. Leadership and management implications

6.3. Communication in management

Unit 7. Organizational dynamism

7.1. Strategies for managing organizational change

7.2. Resistance to change

7.3. Conflict management and negotiation in organizations

Specifically, the students will spend forty five hours in face to face theoretical activities with the professor and fifteen hours in face to face practical activities with the professor, while another ninety hours should be devoted to self- taught learning process.

Students with special educational needs should contact the Student Attention Service (Servicio de Atención y Ayudas al Estudiante) in order to receive the appropriate academic support

To pass the course, it will be necessary to obtain 5 points out of 10 as a result of adding the marks obtained in the theoretical exam and the practical activities elaborated along the course (the assessment system will be the same in the ordinary and extraordinary call).

It will be necessary to obtain 3,5 out of 7 points in the theoretical exam. Below this score, practical marks will not be considered. Regarding the realization of cases and/or individual and group work in practical classes, it will be necessary to deliver, at least, 80% of the proposed activities, with compulsory attendance to class, reaching a minimum score of 1,5 points (out of 3). This  qualification will be valid in the ordinary and extraordinary call.

Those students who cannot follow the continuous assessment will have to contact the professor responsible for the subject, so that, once their circumstances are duly justified, they will analyze and select alternative ways of following the course.

TEACHING METHODOLOGY AND FORMATIVE ACTIVITIES

ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (Ordinary call)

Those students who cannot follow the continuous assessment will have to contact the professor responsible for the subject (throughout the first two weeks of the semester), so that, once their circumstances are duly justified, they will analyze and select alternative ways of following the course.

ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (extraordinary call)

Those students who cannot follow the continuous assessment will have to contact the professor responsible for the subject (throughout the first two weeks of the semester), so that, once their circumstances are duly justified, they will analyze and select alternative ways of following the course.

RESOURCES: Technical means provided by the University to develop online teaching. 

TEACHING METHODOLOGY AND FORMATIVE ACTIVITIES

ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (Ordinary call)

Those students who cannot follow the continuous assessment will have to contact the professor responsible for the subject, so that, once their circumstances are duly justified, they will analyze and select alternative ways of following the course.

ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (Extraordinary call)

  Those students who cannot follow the continuous assessment will have to contact the professor responsible for the subject, so that, once their circumstances are duly justified, they will analyze and select alternative ways of following the course.

RESOURCES: Technical means provided by the University to develop online teaching.

Institution in charge of data processing: Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, s/n, 23071 Jaén

Data Protection Delegate: dpo@ujaen.es

Purpose: In accordance with the Universities Law and other national and regional regulations in force, carrying out exams and assessment tests corresponding to the courses students are registered in. In order to avoid frauds while sitting the exam, the exam will be answered using a videoconference system, being able the academic staff of the University of Jaén to compare and contrast the image of the person who is answering the exam with the student's photographic files. Likewise, in order to provide the exam with evidential content for revisions or claims, in accordance with current regulation frameworks, the exam will be recorded and stored.

Legitimacy: compliance with legal obligations (Universities Law) and other national and regional regulations currently in force.

Addressees: service providers who are the owners of the platforms where the exams are carried out and with whom the University of Jaén has signed the corresponding data access contracts.

Storage periods: those established in current in force regulations. In the specific case of exam videoconference recordings, not before the examination records and transcripts are closed or the exam can still be reviewed or challenged.

Rights: you can exercise your right of access, amendment, cancellation, opposition, suppression, limitation and portability by sending a letter to the postal or electronic address indicated above. In the event that you consider that your rights have been violated, you may submit a complaint to the Andalusian Council for Transparency and Data Protection www.ctpdandalucia.es

Person in charge: Universidad de Jaén, Paraje Las Lagunillas, s/n; Tel.953 212121; www.ujaen.es

Data protection delegate (DPO): TELEFÓNICA, S.A.U. ; Email: dpo@ujaen.es

Procedure aim: To manage proper recordings of teaching sessions with the aim of facilitating learning process under a multimodal and/or online teaching

Period for record storage: Images will be kept during legal term according to regulations in force

Legitimacy: Data will be managed according to legal regulations (Organic Law 6/2001, December 21, on Universities) and given consent provided by selecting corresponding box in legal admission documents

Data recipients (transfers or assignments): Any person allowed to get access to every teaching modality

Rights: You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation, portability, limitation of processing, deletion or, where appropriate, opposition. To exercise these rights, you must submit a written request to the Information, Registration and Electronic Administration Service of the University of Jaen at the address above, or by e-mail to the address above. You must specify which of these rights you are requesting to be satisfied and, at the same time, you must attach a photocopy of your ID card or equivalent identification document. In case you act through a representative, legal or voluntary, you must also provide a document that proves this representation and identification. Likewise, if you consider that your right to personal data protection has been violated, you may file a complaint with the Andalusian Data Protection and Transparency Council www.ctpdandalucia.es