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| GEST1070-1 | Sociological approach of management and HRM
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Christophe Dubois, Frédéric Schoenaers |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English 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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| The financialization of capitalism and the globalization of markets have been challenging the role of firms in our society. The global firm increasingly looks like a porous entity detached from any socio-political affiliation. However, following the seminal work of Max Weber and Emile Durkheim, many sociological studies have established that the firm still depends on its local ecosystem (Powell 1990, Eymard-Duvernay 2004, Boltanski & Chiapello 1999). The cases of firms settling abroad also confirm this statement (Hall and Soskice 2001 Krichewsky 2008).
The objective of this seminar is to analyse various empirical issues of firms' social embeddedness, such as
- the firm's network is subject to many intense struggles (governance struggles, risk management, quality management, knowledge management, innovation management, etc.)
- the open economy reinforces the need for the contractor to defend its own legitimacy (Brunsson 2006).
In that respect, we will consider three topics increasingly occupying managers: quality management, risk management, inter-firms partnership.
From concrete situations they will observe during their internship, three groups of students will focus specifically on one of these topics. Each group will be asked to prepare a working problematized paper including (1) a literature review, (2) an analysis based on real case studies and (3) some lessons learned from the oral presentation made ¿¿by an expert taking part to the seminar. Each of these three tasks will be achieved by a subgroup. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| To develop a reflective capacity about managerial and HRM issues.
At the end of the seminar, students will be able
- to identify relevant references on the three topics,
- to develop an empirically-anchored sociological analysis of these issues,
- to question and compare some empirical findings,
- to induce an empirically-anchored problematic,
- to write a working paper based on a literature review and some empirical findings,
- to prepare a collective working paper.
Moreover, they will have developed critical thinking and teamwork skills. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Active pedagogy: empirical data collection and collective comparison of the material. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Six seminars: one for the introduction, three dedicated to thematic presentations by experts and two dedicated to the collective analysis. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| literature review |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Collective work: thematic working paper for each group (50%) + individual paper (50%) |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| F.Schoenaers@ulg.ac.be |
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