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THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON

BUSA 4322 '' Organization Strategy
Spring 2006

Section: 044

Instructor: Abdul Rasheed
230 Business Building
Ph: 272-3867 e-mail: abdul@uta.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Class Time and Location: Mondays and Wednesdays Room 251
9:30 - 10:50 p.m.

Required Text: Dess, G.G., Lumpkin, G.T., and Eisner,A.B. Strategic Management: Text and Cases.. (2nd Edition) McGraw-Hill Irwin 2006.

Additional Reading: Businessweek, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, etc.

Course Description

The focus of this Business Policy course is on corporate level and business unit-level strategy formulation and implementation. It requires the application of the knowledge and techniques learned in the earlier courses in an integrated fashion and also introduces the critical business skills of planning and managing strategic activities. The topics to be covered include the relationship of organizations to their environments, organizational mission and objectives, formal and informal approaches to strategic planning, the role of organizational structure in the context of strategy formulation and implementation and the mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of strategic decisions and their implementation.

Along with the text material, case studies will be used in this course as a mechanism for the development of analytical and decision-making skills and highlighting the reality of organizational and environmental uncertainties in strategic decision-making. In short, this course attempts to encourage an integrated multifunctional, "general management" perspective of the organization and its environment to develop skills necessary and appropriate to corporate-level and divisional-level policy analysis, formulation and implementation. You will be required to study the assigned text and...