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| GRHO0024-1 | Organizational diagnosis seminar
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Christophe Dubois, Didier Vrancken |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| This seminar aims to accompany students in a concrete organizational research (defining their methodology, analyzing the collected data analysis, writing a report) through a collective survey. Large organizations (businesses, industries at risk, associations and collective networks) will be discussed from a particular angle: the social conflict.
Thus, after an initial introduction to the sociology of organized action and its specific methodology, the groups of two or three students will choose a "field" of investigation. This will consist in an organization which has experienced some social conflict over the last twelve months. This collective survey will be based on fifteen semi-structured interviews.
Two seminars of four hours will consist of a supervision of the data analysis (how to make some assumptions?) and their progressive integration in a report of investigation.
A fourth session will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of collective investigation reports. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF ORGANIZATIONS
- to develop the main conceptual and methodological tools in order to identify and analyze some contemporary organizational contexts
- to immerse oneself in the dynamics of a concrete research
- to draw a research design and to develop some problematic and hypotheses
- to develop an organizational sensitivity, a capacity for analysis and diagnosis of an organizational situation
- to understand a system of collective actors and its overall logic
- to reflect upon the issues that underlie the interdependencies between actors
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| The basic knowledge in classic sociology and organizational sociology should be already acquired. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Session 1: presentation of the main objectives, introduction to the methodology of the survey and of interviews;
Sessions 2 and 3: support and management (data processing - formatting of the report)
Session 4: presentation and group discussions of the reports. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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- Full attendance required
- Group work (producing a working paper)
- Oral presentation and collective discussion of the report
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Recommended or required readings :
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| FRIEDBERG E., 1988, « L'analyse sociologique des organisations », Pour, 28, numéro spécial, 126 p.
FRIEDBERG E., 1993, Le pouvoir et la règle, Paris, Seuil, 387 p.
ADAM G. et REYNAUD J.D. , 1978, Conflits du travail et changement social, Paris, PUF
To go further:
FRIEDBERG E., 2002, De Taylor à aujourd'hui, (CD-Rom), Paris, Editions Banlieues-Media.
REYNAUD J.D., 1982, Sociologie des conflits du travail, PUF, Que sais-je ?
LALLEMENT M., 1996, Sociologie des relations professionnelles, La Découverte, coll. Repères |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Based on this work, you will be evaluated on your capacity to
- research the required documentation,
- formulate some hypotheses of work,
- analyze the sources,
- synthesize your results,
- correctly present your research (orthography and syntax will be equally counted).
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Contacts :
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| DUBOIS Christophe
Institut des sciences humaines et sociales
Adresse ULg :
Bât. B31 CRIS (Centre de Recherche et d'Interventions Sociologique)
boulevard du Rectorat 7
4000 Liège 1
Belgique
Tél. ULg +32 4 3664884
Fax ULg +32 4 3664751
Local 1.93
C.Dubois@ulg.ac.be
ATTENTION :
Merci d'utiliser exclusivement votre adresse ULg (XXX@student.ulg.ac.be) pour tout échange de mail |
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