Introduction to the theory of organizations and structures of Public Health

Duration

20h Th, 10h Pr

Number of credits

Lecturer

Jocelyne Robert

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

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.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

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

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

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

Debates about some concepts (limited rationality, informel aspects, culture) with meta reflexive approach critical aspects

Analysis of one organization, interview (1-3 students), for problem solving, team working, production auto-analysis the maner of organize the work in the group.

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

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.

Recommended or required readings

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.

Assessment methods and criteria

Evaluation of knowledge (60%)-evaluation knowledge about work of research (40%)




Evaluation criteria
- To know concepts and theory
- To analyse a case
- Reasearch information
- Analyse information

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Jocelyne.Robert@ulg.ac.be 04 232 72 15

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