In this course, we will deal with organizational design as a managerial approach to demands for change in the organization. The theoretical basis is the multi-contingency and information processing approach and its application in defining the contingencies of organization design. In applying this model, we will take into consideration multiple contingencies and their strategic and organizational fits: a fit is a match between the organization and its environment, strategy, technology, management style or knowledge, and information structure. This perspective provides management with an opportunity to assess the organization design and change it regularly.  
In analyzing all these contingencies, we will focus on the processes and mechanisms, both at the individual and organizational levels. Finally, we will focus on the new perspectives to study organizations – such as organizational neuroscience - by analyzing its benefits and downfalls in organizations studies and by adopting a critical perspective.