シラバス Syllabus

授業名 Organizational Management
Course Title Organizational Management
担当教員 Instructor Name Kuok Kei Law
コード Couse Code NUC417_N21A
授業形態 Class Type 講義 Regular course
授業形式 Class Format On Campus
単位 Credits 2
言語 Language EN
科目区分 Course Category 専門教育科目 / Specialized Subject
学位 Degree BBA
開講情報 Terms / Location 2021 UG Nisshin Term1

授業の概要 Course Overview

Misson Statementとの関係性 / Connection to our Mission Statement

This course is connected to the University's mission of educating innovative and ethical leaders who can apply their knowledge and values to advance business and society.

授業の目的(意義) / Importance of this course

By taking part in this course, participants will deepen their understanding of the business and ethical implications underneath several key and trendy aspects of organizational management. Overall, the course is designed to arouse participants’ awareness on the importance and challenges of making decisions on organizational management and provides them with a holistic perspective of managing an organization.

到達目標 / Achievement Goal


By taking part in this course, participants will be equipped with fundamental knowledge in the following managerial areas: creating and maintaining an organizational values, going for outsourced production, market segmentation, the acquisition and sharing of information and knowledge, crisis management, corporate responsibility, talent management, remote work management, and project management.

本授業の該当ラーニングゴール Learning Goals

*本学の教育ミッションを具現化する形で設定されています。

LG1 Critical Thinking
LG2 Diversity Awareness
LG3 Ethical Decision Making
LG4 Effective Communication
LG6 Managerial Perspectives (BBA)

受講後得られる具体的スキルや知識 Learning Outcomes


1. Examine the business and ethical implications from outsourced production, marketing, people management, and strategy-making.
2. Associate organizational values, talent management, information and knowledge management and organizational resilience with organizational competitive advantages.
3. Discuss the pros and cons of remote work and suggest ways to better manage it.

SDGsとの関連性 Relevance to Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 12 つくる責任、つかう責任(Responsible Consumption and Production)

教育手法 Teaching Method

教育手法 Teaching Method % of Course Time
インプット型 Traditional 10 %
参加者中心型 Participant-Centered Learning ケースメソッド Case Method 90 %
フィールドメソッド Field Method 0 %
合計 Total 100 %

事前学修と事後学修の内容、レポート、課題に対するフィードバック方法 Pre- and Post-Course Learning, Report, Feedback methods


Participants should allow at least 3 hours of preparation time per case. There are around 49 pages of main contents in total from the six assigned cases.
A laptop computer is required for electronic distribution of handouts in class.


Please read the assigned case before each class. If needed, please conduct online or library search on the corresponding theme/topic to be discussed. Some relevant theories/frameworks will be used in class discussion.


Theme : Reflective essay.
Assignment : Please refer to the instructions posted on Google Classroom.
Deadline : Approximately 1 week after the course has ended.
Submission method : Please submit to Google Classroom.
Feedback: Marked assessment rubrics will be returned to participants.

授業スケジュール Course Schedule

第1日(Day1)

Theme: Creating values.
Main contents: Sources of organizational culture, maintaining a strong organizational culture, relating organizational culture to corporate image and sustainability.

●使用するケース
Creating the Future at Southwest Airlines (Publisher: Thunderbird School of Global Management)

第2日(Day2)

Theme: Managing production - outsourcing and quality issues.
Main contents: Rationale of outsourcing decisions, pros and cons of outsourced production, relating outsourced production to organizational competitive advantage and organizational risks.

●使用するケース
Mattel in China – ‘The Outsourcing and the Recall’ (Publisher: IBS Research Centre)
(related to SDG Responsible Consumption and Production)

第3日(Day3)

Theme: Managing the target market - ethical considerations.
Main contents: Goals and objectives of target marketing and market segmentation, ethical challenges of target/nice marketing, social responsibility of organizations.

●使用するケース
Abercrombie & Fitch: Is It Unethical To BE Exclusive? (Publisher: Ivey Publishing)
(related to SDGs Responsible Consumption and Production and Reduced Inequality)

第4日(Day4)

Theme: Managing people - managerial dilemma in remote work.
Main contents: Nature of remote work, pros and cons of remote work, managerial dilemma in normalizing remote work.

●使用するケース
Work From Home: Curse or Boon? (Publisher: Ivey Publishing)

第5日(Day5)

Theme: Managing information and knowledge.
Main contents: Managing organizational knowledge, pros and cons of information technology tools, human behaviors in information and knowledge sharing.

●使用するケース
We Gave Them a Tool, but Hardly Anyone’s Using It! Untangling the Knowledge Management Dilemma at TPA (Publisher: HEC Montreal Centre for Case Studies)

第6日(Day6)

Theme: Managing the unexpected - the impact of COVID-19.
Main contents: Unexpected circumstance, organizational resilience, platform businesses.

●使用するケース
COVID-19: Impact on Big Tech Companies (Publisher: AMITY)
(related to SDG Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure)

第7日(Day7)

Theme: A small-scale demonstration of organizational management - a project management simulation.
Main contents: Budgeting, resource allocation, operations management.

●使用するケース
Project Management Simulation: Scope, Resources, Schedule V2 (Publisher: HBP)

成績評価方法 Evaluation Criteria

*成績は下記該当項目を基に決定されます。
*クラス貢献度合計はコールドコールと授業内での挙手発言の合算値です。
講師用内規準拠 Method of Assessment Weights
コールドコール Cold Call 0 %
授業内での挙手発言 Class Contribution 60 %
クラス貢献度合計 Class Contribution Total 60 %
予習レポート Preparation Report 0 %
小テスト Quizzes / Tests 0 %
シミュレーション成績 Simulation 0 %
ケース試験 Case Exam 0 %
最終レポート Final Report 40 %
期末試験 Final Exam 0 %
参加者による相互評価 Peer Assessment 0 %
合計 Total 100 %

評価の留意事項 Notes on Evaluation Criteria

Preparation before class and active participation in both small group discussion and open class discussion are expected. The final report will be graded by the comprehensiveness and depth of the content.

使用ケース一覧 List of Cases

    ケースは使用しません。

教科書 Textbook

  • 配布資料

参考文献・資料 Additional Readings and Resource

Additional readings and videos will be distributed and shown in class.

授業調査に対するコメント Comment on Course Evaluation

Class discussion will follow a more structured and theoretically based manner as suggested by previous participants. Most discussion themes and cases have been replaced following suggestions from the previous year.

担当教員のプロフィール About the Instructor 


Dr. Law is an Associate Professor in the area of management at NUCB Business School. He gained his PhD from City University of Hong Kong. His primary research interests include knowledge management and human resource management. His work has appeared in renowned international journals such as European Management Journal, Human Resource Management Review, and Journal of Knowledge Management. Two of his research work won best-paper and research awards in 2013 and 2016 respectively. At his current university, Dr. Law received Teaching Awards for the academic years 2020/21 (Outstanding), 2021/22, and 2022/23 as well as Research Award for the academic year 2020/21.

(実務経験 Work experience)


Prior to joining NUCB, Dr Law worked at the Open University of Hong Kong, where he started his academic career and rose quickly from Assistant Lecturer to Lecturer to Assistant Professor during his nine years of tenure. He has extensive experiences in delivering business management courses at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as supervising research and dissertations.

Refereed Articles

  • (2023) What Is Next? The Longer-Term Managerial Challenges following COVID-19. Sustainability 15(18):
  • (2023) The effect of short-term performance fluctuations on long-term performance: evidence from the English Premier League. Team Performance Management 29(1/2): 1352-7592
  • (2022) Application of learning organization 2.0: a case study of Ricoh Ena Forest Japan. The Learning Organization
  • (2021) Online or Offline? Coaching Media as Mediator of the Relationship between Coaching Style and Employee Work-related Outcomes. Australian Journal of Management
  • (2020) Sustainable HRM: An extension of the paradox perspective. Human Resource Management Review

Refereed Proceedings

  • (2017). Knowledge appropriation, justice climate and performance management - A theoretical framework. Proceedings of the British Academy of Management 2017 Conference .British Academy of Management 2017 Conference. 1. 3. University of Warwick
  • (2016). Tacit knowledge management of firefighters: An exploratory study on the fire service department in Hong Kong. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Innovation and Knowledge Management in Asia Pacific .The 8th International Conference on Innovation and Knowledge Management in Asia Pacific. 1. 3. Ariston Hotel, Kobe
  • (2016). Exploring employees' communication behaviors in knowledge sharing: A hierarchal perspective. Proceedings of the 81st Annual Conference of the Association for Business Communication .The 81st Annual Conference of the Association for Business Communication. 1. 3. Albuquerque, New Mexico






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