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Study programmes 2010-2011Last update : 11/04/2011
GRHO0011-1  Corporate strategies and new organizational forms
Duration :  24h Th
Credits/ECTS :  
Master in management Sciences, professional focus in management, 2nd yearSecond semester4
Master in Human Resources Management, Professional Focus, 1st yearSecond semester6
Master in Human Resources Management, Professional Focus, 2nd yearToute l'année6
Holder(s) :  François Pichault
Language :  French language
Course contents :  The course is focused on the analysis of new organizational forms, issued from recent developments in the corporate strategies of Western companies. On the basis of a symbolic case (The High-Speed Train Company Thalys International), it has recourse to 5 theories, belonging to sociology and economics, in view of building a multidimensional diagnosis and proposing improvements: contingent theory, political theory, conventions theory, transaction cost theory and actor-network theory.
Course objective :  Initiation to diagnosis and intervention (students are invited to take the role of a junior consultant)
Organization :  This is a distant-learning course. Only 3 meetings take place in the classroom : the two first and the last one. The remaining parts of the course are structured in 6 missions, of approximately 4 hours each, planned on a detailed schedule during 12 weeks. These lessons must be realized online in groupwork (maximal size: 3) and have to answer the different missions of diagnosis proposed . The final meeting offers the opportunity to present, in front of the classroom and the teacher, a synthesis of the partial diagnoses undertaken during the semester and, on this basis, operational recommendations. This final mission corresponds to an oral presentation of 15 to 20 minuts.
Caution : the groups will be necessarily formed during the second face-to-face meeting. No further inscription can be accepted.
Written notes :  The participants must access the website
http://lola.hec.ulg.ac.be (http://lola.hec.ulg.ac.be/)

They will have at their disposal the theoretical information required, the description of the missions, the agenda, and the various video sequences.
Assessment :  The final evaluation is based on the quality of each group's contribution to the different online missions and on the final presentation of the diagnosis and the recommendations.
Contacts :  Professor: François PICHAULT Bâtiment B.31 - Bureau II.94 Tél.: 04 366 30 70 E-Mail: F.Pichault@ulg.ac.be
Assistant: Audrey LEVEQUEBâtiment B.31 - Bureau II.93 Tél.: 04 366 27 35 E-Mail: audrey.leveque@ulg.ac.be


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