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| GRHO0011-5 | Corporate strategies and new organizational forms
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| Duration : | 24h Th |
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| Lecturer : | François Pichault |
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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 second semester |
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Course contents :
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| 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. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Initiation to diagnosis and intervention (students are invited to take the role of a junior consultant)
This course contributes to the following Intended Learning Outcomes :
- ILO-1 : To strengthen knowledge and understanding of management disciplines and its legal, policy and social context.
- ILO-4 : To acquire the capacity to research autonomously and methodically the information needed to solve a complex, transversal management problem.
- ILO-5 : Integrate autonomously researched information, tools, knowledge and context to build and propose, either individually or as part of a team, original, creative and viable solutions to concrete complex management problems, whether real or simulated, taking into account, when necessary, the human, social and legal context.
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| This is a distant-learning course. Only 2 meetings take place in the classroom : the 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 undertake different missions of diagnosis. The final meeting offers the opportunity to present to the teacher and a member of the directing board of Thalys International, operational recommendations concerning a specific problem. This final mission corresponds to an oral presentation of 10 to 15 minutes.
Caution : the groups will be necessarily formed during the first meeting. No further inscription can be accepted. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| The participants must access the website
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. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| 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. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Professor:
François PICHAULT
Bâtiment B.31 - Bureau II.94
Tél.: 04 366 30 70
E-Mail: F.Pichault@ulg.ac.be
Assistant:
Fanny FOX
LENTIC B.51
Tél.: 04 366 30 70
E-Mail: f.fox@ulg.ac.be |
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