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| GEST0005-3 | Introduction to the theory of organizations
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| Duration : | 35h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Jocelyne Robert |
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| Language : | French language |
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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), the works in small group at the first semester. Conferences are organized too. |
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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, 2005.
- 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. Personalwork for the date of the evaluation |
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| Contacts : | Jocelyne.robert@ulg.ac.be |
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| Remarks : | see website lola |
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