The Burton and Obel book and the OrgCon software was used as the major reading and exercise, respectively, for the Company Organization Design portion of a class on Organization Design for Projects and companies. For the exercise, the students used OrgCon to analyze a real company in which they conducted interviews to gather the needed input data and then discussed thier findings with managers in the company.
In lectures, the software is projected on the screen as the primary teaching and explanation tool and students use the textbook as a reference for the theory and background of rules in OrgCon.
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