People, Per­form­ance and Or­gan­iz­a­tion­al Value

Course content

This course focuses on two problems essential for people, performance and value
in organisations: coordination and motivation of employees. The intertwined problems
are instrumental in execution of people strategy and business development. Coordination includes not only issues of organizational design (organisational structure, team and job design), work force planning, skills and competence matching but also goal setting, feedback and development of employees. Motivation is about employee commitment and engagement and it mobilizes issues such as pay, incentives, purpose and job - happiness. The course is divided in two parts
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The first part of the course concentrates on understanding, calculating, analyzing and discussing broader issues of people, performance and value expressed in key structures related to organistional design, job, people and pay in the organizations.
The second part of the course focuses on performance information and its roles in coordination and motivation of employee. This involves the problem of measuring and evaluating performance (not only in terms of financial but also customer, sustainability and societal performance) and understanding how performance information exchange
influence employees’ and managers decisions, actions, incentives as well as intrinsic motivation fundamental for executing people strategy and business development.