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1,635 ratings

About the Course

Organizations are complex and can be difficult to manage well, so managers need tools to help them better understand and deal with the many complexities and challenges associated with organizational life. In this course, you will learn theories, principles, and frameworks that will help you design more effective organizations. You will be able to: - Analyze organizations from multiple perspectives to better understand business challenges - Strategically plan for effective organizational governance - Develop systems to plan for growth and change - Understand implications of the external environment on business and strategically respond to these factors This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admission into these programs and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/....

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SP

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The course was very comprehensive and easy to understand. I would also like to thank GIES college and Coursera for providing me with enriching learning opportunities. Thank you

DW

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Overall, very good course with interesting ways of framing organizational design. Would have liked more discussion around practical applications of the material.

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By Anton F

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Oct 17, 2016

very useful content, great readings, but total lack of peer-to-peer engagement. It's like reading a book: nice but not up to industry best practices. Overall, the course is lower quality than the ones before from Gregory Northcraft. Another problem with this specific course is word hunting in quizzes. The ones for case studies are especially tricky.

By Jason B

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Apr 17, 2018

Many concepts came across as too abstract and would have benefited from more concrete supporting examples. Newer relevant examples would also be useful to update content in sections like the music business module, etc.

By Ike S

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Oct 2, 2017

I do like the contents, however I personally had a hard time listening to the instructor. The way he speaks is really slow with sudden pauses, so I had to speed it up to 1.5 or 1.75 and that helped a little bit.

By Ileana D

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Jun 6, 2017

There is a lot of complicated terminology in this course, the content is very interesting and new to me but I find hard to apply these theories in actual business situations.

By Roger

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Jul 24, 2016

Just taking part of the course material was rewarding. A good basic introduction to Organization Design. Looking forward to the next step in Designing the Organization

By Jose S

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Sep 5, 2019

Course content is good, assigents and presentations are good also. Professor Huseyin Leblebici speaks very slow, playing the videos at 1.5x is a must.

By Zoran B

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May 5, 2020

Video material and slides was hard to follow. To much colors and information on slides, not adapted to human brain even if someone is visual type.

By Subhajyoti C

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Nov 4, 2019

Exceptionally long course, the concepts are good and detailed but could have been better if it is was not just read from the slides.

By Vikash P

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Jun 26, 2016

The course lacks coherence which comes as a big disappointment as it follows two excellent modules by Greg Northcraft.

By Jeff C

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Apr 17, 2018

A little too much theory and not enough in applied day-to-day situations that managers will face.

By Tom W

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Aug 29, 2016

OK course. Difficult to follow at times. The assignments and reading make it worth taking.

By Sheila

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Feb 4, 2018

I didn't find the peer review assignments helpful. Overall, the lectures were adequate.

By David B

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May 2, 2020

Interesting course but i have the feeling it goes less deep than previous modules

By Baoliang L

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Apr 13, 2020

more detailed case studies would be better to understand the course contents

By Rishika G

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Nov 8, 2017

I found the course very generic and could not meet my expectations.

By PABLO F C E

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Apr 17, 2020

Could be a little more interactive with more suggested readings.

By Syed A A

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Sep 7, 2018

I did not find this course relatable to the Specialization.

By Димитрије Ј

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Jan 30, 2017

Interesting case studies, but very uninteresting professor.

By Angela G H

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Jul 22, 2021

I found this course too high level to keep my interest.

By Michael H S

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Jul 14, 2019

Interesting look at org. management.

By Sana

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Jun 13, 2020

Good

By Jeson M

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Nov 16, 2017

The course is very informative and has a lot of content. However, the professor's speech has too many distracting pauses. It's hard to keep my eyes open while watching the videos. To reduce the pauses, he should write down his lectures as transcript first, since they are recorded.

By kallol C

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Feb 20, 2020

The Course was good. However I cannot down load my certificate. PLEASE HELP

By James S

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Jun 27, 2017

Hard to follow the instructor. The lessons taught were applicable.

By Vikram K

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Jun 10, 2022

As I said for the foundation course of this specialization also, the course framework and reading materials are OK. The reason for a 1 star rating is the design of the evaluation system. There are too many peer-graded assignments with subjective answers giving chance to overly-competitive participants to downgrade assignments unnecessarily. But this is not all, there are so many many plagiarised or blank submissions that it is difficult to find the required number of assigments to rate.

The flagging of plagiarised or irrelevant submissions are not even attented to. This causes loss of motivation to complete the course. I would suggest to evolve the evaluation system as I believe the aim should be that the participants get to learn something and not get demotivated to even complete the specialization.