GRHO0011-5 : Corporate strategies and new organizational forms

Study Programmes 2015-2016

GRHO0011-5

Corporate strategies and new organizational forms

Duration :

24h Th

Number of credits :

Master in human resources management (120 ECTS)		5
Master in human resources management (120 ECTS)		5

Lecturer :

François Pichault

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

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.

Learning outcomes of the course :

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.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

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.