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| GEST0740-2 | Introduction to the theory of organizations and structures of Public Health
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| Duration : | 20h Th, 10h Pr |
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| Credits/ECTS : |
| Master in Public Health, Professional Focus in Epidemology, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Public Health, Professional Focus in Promoting Public Health and the Environment, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Public Health, Professional Focus in Management of Healthcare Institutions, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Public Health, Professional Focus in Human Sexuality, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Public Health, Professional Focus in Hospital and Perfusion Technology, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Public Health, Professional Focus in Intensive Care and Emergency Room Care, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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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 institution runs and sometimes runs across problems ...
It will help students better integrate in an institution 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 aapplied at the institutions re presented too. |
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| Course objective : | Objectives:The objectives of the course are:
- To Understand the concepts to analyze the institutions - To Compare, to analyze different theories - To apply different concepts and different theories at the situations of the institution - 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, Institutions and bureaucraty, Institution and culture, Institution and systemic approach, Institution and strategy, Identity and work, Configurations, Other Theories, Institution and change |
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| Workshops : | Groupworks (3 students): written work an oral presentation |
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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 and the presentations of the works in small group at the first semester. Conferences are organized too. |
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| Written notes : | Notes de cours: Organisations et changements en entreprises. Approche historique, théorique et pratique, Editions de l'Université de Liège, 2007.
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
- Hnry Mintzberg, Structure et dynamique des organisations, Paris,Editions d'Orgganisation, Montréal, Les Editions Agence d'Arc, 1982
-Henry Mintzberg, Le pouvoir dans les organisations, Paris, Editions d'Organisation, Montréal Editions Agence d'Arc, 1986
- 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 (50%)
Groupworks (3 students) at the end of december (written work 40%, oral presentation:10%) |
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| Contacts : | Jocelyne.Robert@ulg.ac.be 04 232 72 15 |
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