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Question 1) In your blog, you should address the following two sections:

(1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity.

(2) Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.

Visit the following URLs, and use 'Questions to consider' to guide your thinking. Remember you can select the number of activities to use in your blog (i.e., you can either focus on one activity or incorporate the ideas from several activities in one blog).

Activity 1: Thomas Friedman on Globalisation; 3 Eras of Globalisation; World is flat
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp4znWHvsjU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM2BguxRSyY

Questions to consider:

1. What would be some of the key drawbacks or risks of living in the flat world of Globalisation 3.0 as Friedman describes it?

2. Do you agree with Friedman's iron rule of the flat world? Explain.

3. Is the level of globalisation uniform across the world? Explain.

Quesiton 2)

In your blog, you should address the following two sections:

(1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity.

(2) Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.

Visit the following URLs, and use 'Questions to consider' to guide your thinking. Remember you can select the number of activities to use in your blog (i.e., you can either focus on one activity or incorporate the ideas from several activities in one blog).
Activity 1: Structure and strategy

URL: BCG's Yves Morieux view on Organisation Designx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm7d1dzOKmw

Questions to consider:

1. Yves Morieux claims that structure follows strategy. Is this always the case?

Activity 2: Holacracy

URL: Zappos just abolished bosses. Inside tech's latest management craze. https://www.vox.com/2014/7/11/5876235/silicon-valleys-latest-management-craze-holacracy-explained

Questions to consider:

1. What's your understanding of holacracy? How would you describe it compared to bureaucracy and team-based structure?

2. Discuss how Contingency Factors of Organisational Design are at work in the case of Zappos?

3. In what ways do you think innovative culture is related to (agile) organisational structure?

Quesiton 3)

In your blog, you should address the following two sections:

(1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity.

(2) Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.
Visit the following URLs, and use 'Questions to consider' to guide your thinking. Remember you can select the number of activities to use in your blog (i.e., you can either focus on one activity or incorporate the ideas from several activities in one blog).

Activity 1: Linear Programming Word Problem

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ACJ9ewUC6U

Questions to consider:

1. What insights into rational decision making approach can you draw from this video?

2. What would be the limitations of linear programming?

3. In what kinds of situation could the linear programming be useful to decision making?