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| GEST0941-1 | Organization Theory and Practice | ||||||||||||||
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| Duration : | 30h Th | ||||||||||||||
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| Holder(s) : | Jocelyne Robert | ||||||||||||||
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| Course contents : | This course aims at giving students analysis tools for a better comprehension of how an organization runs and sometimes runs across problems ... It will help students better integrate in an organization and make them more efficient. The presentation of concepts of rationality, culture, socialisation, power, bureaucraty, strategy, system allows the analyse of different situations. The analyze of the organisations present key structural variables: work division and coordination , "inter-unit liaison mechanisms", "authority systems and formal communication flows", "power systems and informal communication flows", " kind of environment", etc. The new theories of organizations are presented too. | ||||||||||||||
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| Course objective : | Objectives:The objectives of the course are: - To Understand the concepts to analyze the organizations - To Compare, to analyze different theories - To apply different concepts and different theories at the situations of the enterprise - To apply steps of research: questions, hypothesis, context, research of informations - To be situated in organizational and institutional context and purpose solutions for the different situations - To work in small groups - To utilize new technology Contents: To understand theories and to apply the theories to organizations: les composantes; Classic theory, Rationality and irrationality, Formal and informal, Organisation and bureaucraty, Organisation and culture, Organisation and systemic approach, Organisation and strategy, Identity and work, Configurations, Other Theories, Organisation and change | ||||||||||||||
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| Organization : | Presentations of concepts and theories Exemples, case studies, conferences Exercises in small groups with the assistance of the teacher Research of informations in the organizations The presentation of the concepts and the theories at first semester (2,5 h. /week during 12 weeks), the works in small group at the second semester. The conferences are organized at 1° ans 2° semester. | ||||||||||||||
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| Written notes : | Différents chapitres issus de références essentielles, disponibles en bibliothèque: Different chapters from referencies, at the library: - Henri Amblard, Philippe Bernoux, Gilles S.Herreros, Yves-Frederic Livian, Les nouvelles approches sociologiques des organisations, 3° éd., 2005, Seuil - Jean Nizet et François Pichault, Introduction à la théorie des configurations, De Boeck Université, 2004. - Stepen Robbins, David De Cenzo,.Management. L'essentiel des concepts et des pratiques, 4° édition, 2004, Pearson. - Michel Crozier, Le phénomène bureaucratique, Seuil, 1964 - March et Simon, Les organisations, Dunod, 1991 and for English presentations: Stephen Robbins ans Mary Coulter, Management, 8° ed., International Edition, Pearson, 2005. | ||||||||||||||
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| Assessment : | Written evaluation at the end of first semester | ||||||||||||||
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| Contacts : | Jocelyne Robert Bâtiment N1 - Porte 301 jocelyne.robert@ulg.ac.be | ||||||||||||||
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ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 18/05/2007
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