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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Organizational Analysis by Stanford University

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About the Course

In this introductory, self-paced course, you will learn multiple theories of organizational behavior and apply them to actual cases of
organizational change. Organizations are groups whose members coordinate their behaviors in order to accomplish a shared goal. They can
be found nearly everywhere in today’s society: universities, start-ups, classrooms, hospitals, non-profits, government bureaus, corporations,
restaurants, grocery stores, and professional associations are some of many examples of organizations. Organizations are as varied and
complex as they are ubiquitous: they differ in size and internal structure; they can entail a multiplicity of goals and tasks (som...
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MK

Mar 21, 2024

This course expanded my thought process beyond organizational change. Organizational creation and stability are now included in my engagement model. Thank you Professor McFarland, team and partners.

AA

Apr 29, 2020

This course provides in-depth analyses of a host of organizational theories and their application in real life. The dissection of each case and the applicability of the theories are really insightful.

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By Isaak T

Dec 7, 2022

The content is excellent, and I like the idea of using organizational analysis models as "lenses" through which we can look at organizations, networks and situations.

The videos are well made, though the instructor is mostly reading from the provided PDF, which after some point I found more helpful than watching or listening to the videos. The provided PDF is very useful and contains lots of good content structured in a solid manner.

The examples used to highlight the presented theories are mediocre; they are often either far removed from most people's experiences (e.g., Cuban Missile Crisis) or too education-focused or too US-centric; the instructor also often uses situations he faces in an academic environment as examples of applying the different theories, which is not interesting for people taking the course to better understand business organizations and/or people not currently enrolled in or considering employment in an academic institution.

The quiz at the end of each week is mostly good, as it builds on the questions posed while watching the videos, though it's possible to answer them by studying the course's PDF. Some questions in the quizzes test attentiveness rather than understanding.

The final quiz is, unfortunately, an exercise in memorization and reviewing the PDF content. There is simply too much nitty-gritty material covered across the 10 weeks of the course and there are too many contrasting theories and aspects to really be able to answer 117 multiple-choice questions in a row without questioning the point of it all.

IMO the many-question quiz is an outdated way of checking for obtained understanding and knowledge, and some of the questions don't really mean much outside of the context of the course. For example: fine, I know that theory A differs from theory B in some minute way mentioned in a video or documented in the PDF. It's however very likely that this difference will not be something I will remember months down the road or something that will impact my application of either theory, so why focus on this difference instead of applicability of the theories on various situations?

I applaud the fortitude and memorization skills of everyone who got 100% on it, though I cannot understand how that translates to proof of a better learning outcome than just barely passing and calling it a day, with the PDF as a useful reference to remember all the nitty-gritty.

For those wanting to dive deeper, the Screen-Side Chat videos are very useful and often more insightful than the main course videos in answering "what if" questions, and I strongly recommend them.

Overall, this is a very insightful and well-delivered course that was a good use of my time. It provided many "aha moments" related to my business experience in change and improvement initiatives, as well as regarding motivations of mergers, acquisitions, and general joint ventures. The course would benefit from a more application-focused and understanding-oriented means of checking the attendee's knowledge retention, but that's really nitpicking.