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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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| Number of credits : |
| Master in Public Health, Professional Focus in Epidemology, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master en sciences de la santé publique, à finalité spécialisée en pratiques avancées en sciences infirmières, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Public Health, Professional Focus in Promoting Public Health and the Environment, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Public Health, Professional Focus in Management of Healthcare Institutions, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Public Health, Professional Focus in Human Sexuality, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Public Health, Professional Focus in Hospital and Perfusion Technology, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Public Health, Professional Focus in Intensive Care and Emergency Room Care, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Lecturer : | Jocelyne Robert |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| 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 analyse of the organisations presents 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 applied at the institutions are presented too. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| 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 |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Planned learning activities and learning events are face -to -face presentations, interactives methods, participative and production methods:
Research of informations in writing suport to acquire knowledge and to explore
Presentation face -to -face to explain writing suport
Examples,case studies to present knowledge and to understand and analyse
Exercises in small groups (3 students) to analyse cases, videos
Debates about some concepts (limited rationality, informel aspects, culture) with meta reflexive approach critical aspects
Analysis of one organization, interview (3 students), working paper or other for problem solving, team working, production auto-analysis the maner of organize the work in the group.
Oral presentation from one interdisciplinary jury with questions/answers |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Presentations of concepts and theories
Exemples, case studies, conferences
Exercises in small groups with the assistance of the teacher
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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Recommended or required readings :
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| Notes de cours:
Power point on web site lola.hec.ulg.ac.be
J.Robert, Organisations et changements en entreprises. Approche historique, théorique et pratique, Editions de l'Université de Liège, 2007.
and for English presentations:
Stephen Robbins ans Mary Coulter, Management, 8° ed., International Edition, Pearson, 2005. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written evaluation at the end of first semester (50%)
Groupworks (3 students) at the end of december (written work 40%, oral presentation:10%)
Written evaluation . Personalwork for november
Continue assessment
Evaluation of knowledge (50%)
Group Working report (interview in compagny, analysis and comparaison with the course) Individual report,Auto-evaluation report about individual learning (knowledge, knowhow, being) (40%)
Oral presentation (10%)
Evaluation criteria
- To know concepts and theory
- To analyse a case
- Reasearch information
- Analyse information
- Group working and writing report
- Quality of the oral presentation
Individual and group evaluation |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Jocelyne.Robert@ulg.ac.be 04 232 72 15 |
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| Items online : |
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| Introduction aux théories des orgaisantions structures de sante publique |
| Les transparents sont sur le site d'HEC-Ecole de gestion de l'Université de Liège |
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