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The Competitive Strategic Management course at the Arab Academy focuses on managing organizational design and change, with a seminar format that includes reading, critiquing, and presenting on relevant topics. Students will develop knowledge, skills, and perspectives related to organizational design, and are required to actively participate in discussions and presentations. The course includes a grading system based on group presentations, mid-term exams, participation, and a group term project, with specific guidelines for online conduct and presentation preparation.

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The Competitive Strategic Management course at the Arab Academy focuses on managing organizational design and change, with a seminar format that includes reading, critiquing, and presenting on relevant topics. Students will develop knowledge, skills, and perspectives related to organizational design, and are required to actively participate in discussions and presentations. The course includes a grading system based on group presentations, mid-term exams, participation, and a group term project, with specific guidelines for online conduct and presentation preparation.

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Arab Academy for Science, technology and maritime transport

College of Graduate School of Business

Course Title: Competitive Strategic Management


Credit Hours: 4 c/h
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The purpose of this seminar is to develop a foundation for consuming,
evaluating and producing important topics in the complementary domains of
Competitive Strategic Management. Taken as a whole, these domains paint a
fairly complete picture of Managing Organizational Design and Change. During
the seminar, we will read and critique many related issues in these domains.
COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Knowledge
1. Learn key bases of Managing Organizational Design and Design;
2. Acquire knowledge of various issues, techniques, and tools used in Managing
Organizational Design and change;
3. To familiarize with the nature and scope of Managing Organizational Design and
change practice and theory;
4. To provide with an understanding of the role of Managing Organizational Design
and change in today’s business world;
5. Recognize the challenges facing managers in a highly competitive environment.

Skills
1. Know how to evaluate many issues in Managing Organizational Design and
Change and related fields;
2. Develop insight into ways to extend extant issues in Managing Organizational
Design and Change and related fields;
3. Learn how to think creatively with regard to linking ‘seemingly different’
theoretical perspectives together to produce a new stream of Managing
Organizational Design and Change questions;
4. Apply your newly acquired knowledge through the development of a viable final
term project proposal.

Perspectives
1. Become familiar with the complementary aspects of Managing
Organizational Design and Change
2. Understand the unique and overlapping theories and evolution of
Managing Organizational Design and Change;
3. Discover how to integrate sub-domains of Managing Organizational
Design and Change and derive relevant issues and questions using a
broader framework.

1
Participation:
You are expected to make a significant contribution to discussions of all readings.
You are not allowed to get inside the class after 20 minutes of the announced time,
so you should wait until the break time to join us once again. Three times absents
without permission will give you withdrawal grade in the course, while over five
times absents with acceptable permission will drop you out of the whole course
(see you again next term).

Presentations:
You will be assigned to present and discuss various preselected topics throughout
the semester. You need to prepare a professional presentation, using the
appropriate visual aids such as PowerPoint, and lead the class through the paper
and a critique, with most of the emphasis on the critique. Keep in mind that time is
very limited 25 minutes, so please carefully prepare ‘tight’ presentations.
Remember the words of T. S. Eliot: “If I had more time, I would have written a
shorter letter.” You will lose valuable presentation points if you “stuff too much
onto any given slide” and if you have too many slides for the allotted time.
Presented groups should send their final work one week before the presentation
timetable, Word and power point documents should be send to this email:
[email protected] under the subject: (IT&L master term – the topic
of the presentation). 360 degree appraisal form will be the evaluation tool for the
group’s presentations by; Presenters themselves (20%), Other Students in the class
(20%), and Course Lecturer (60%). Your presentation format should be as
follows:
• Introduction.
• Background, history, evolution, or development
• Related terms definitions.
• Discussing any related issues.
• Suggest any contribution.
• Conclusion and summary.
• References.

Please considerer these notes regarding the presentation:


- Select a suitable background.
- Simi formal is a requirement as a dress code.
- Only the presented group enable their cameras & mics.
- All the presenters are responsible for the whole presentation.
- You may answer any question even if it wasn’t in your part.
- You may answer any inquiries in other’s presentations.
- Always communicate with your pears by comments or questions.
- Read the common presentation mistakes to avoid them in your presentation.

2
Recommended presentation topics:

- AI Report 2023.
- World Economic Forum Report 2024.

Course grading system:


Assignment Points
Group Presentation 20
Mid-term Exam 30
Participation 10
Group Term Project 40
Total Grade 100

Instructor profile:
Mohamed Hazem El-Deeb - Phd
Learning & Development Director – L&D
Human Recourses Affaires
Head of strategic plan follow up committee 2016-2021
Strategic planning partner in the strategic plan steering committee 2021-2026
Certified Leadership Assessor – University of Missouri – Texas, USA.
Certified Risk Assessment Assessor – Det Norske Veritas DNV – Oslo, Norway.
Certified Competency Based Interview Assessor – British Psychological Society - UK
Certified Competency Based Interview Assessor – Continuing Professional Development CPD - UK
Certified Organization Excellence Assessor – EFQM – UK.
Certified Public Organization Excellence Assessor – Common Assessment Framework CAF – Austria.

Online Conduct Policy:


- Lectures are life stream via zoom application & not recorded lectures.
- Students should attend all online lectures, Excuses are accepted before any
lecture, but not after, and with clear evidence.
- It not allowed to share zoom meeting links without previous permission
from the instructor.
- The students’ devices camera should be enabled while (1st lecture,
presentations, & projects).
- All exams will be fully online through google drive platform.
- Assignments should be delivered by mail, all in one mail.
- All the given sessions & materials have a copy right. They are not subject
to reused or distributed without previous permission from the instructor.
- All submitted projects will go through a plagiarism checker, so students are
expected to write their reports in their own effort \ words.

3
Course Text Books:
1- Organization and system design, theory of Deferred Action.
2- Organization design, the evolving state of the art.
3- Organization structures, theory and design, analysis and prescription.
4- Business Restructuring - An Action Template for Reducing Cost and
Growing Profit
5- Business Transformation - A Roadmap for Maximizing Organizational
Insights
6- Corporate Restructuring from Cause Analysis to Execution
7- Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Restructuring and Firm’s
Performance
8- Creating Enlightened Organizations.

Course Content:
LECTURE SCHEDULE
Lecture
# Week Hrs Description
- Discussing course outline
st Organization Design Puzzle
1 1 4
Start by looking at the whole picture

2 2nd 4 Understanding the Organization - McKinsey Model

3 3rd 4 The Satisfaction Model as a puzzle piece

4 4rd 4 Understanding the External Environment - PESTEL Approach


5 5rd 4 Mid – Term Exam
6 6rd 4 Change Management – Resilience Approach

7 7rd 4 Crisis Management – Risk Assessment Approach

Interactive Workshop
8 8rd 4
Risk Assessment Case Study – BOT Discussion Case

9 9rd 4 Group Presentations – 360 Degree Approach

10 10rd 4 Term Projects – Group Discussion Approach

4
Presentation Evaluation Form

Group No.:

Name of the topic:

Time & Date: ……………………………………….


Improvement
Item Good Excellent
needed
Presentation Content
Simplicity appropriate for audience
Research problem clearly stated
Context and importance of research
demonstrated
Results easily and clearly interpreted
Conclusions to point, corresponding to
problem
Visual aids
Clear, not overcrowded
Contribution of colors to understanding, not
distracting
Font (size, style, quality)
Legible figures conveying results effectively
Performance
Smooth transition from issue to issue
Audience contact, eye contact
Voice and pacing, Articulation
Engagement, enthusiasm
Body language, gestures
General
Organization of information
Clear ‘take home message’
Ability to answer questions
Adherence to time limit

Please rank the presenters from your point of view:


1- ………………………………….
2- …………………………………
3- ………………………………….

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