Duration
15h Pr
Number of credits
| University certificate in clinical epidemiology and healthcare economics | 4 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
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 organization runs and sometimes runs across problems ...
It will help students better integrate in an organization and make them more efficient.
The presentation of concepts of rationality, culture, socialisation, power, bureaucraty, strategy, system allows the analysis of different situations.
The analysis 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. to define configurations..
The new theories of organizations are presented too.
Contenus: To understand and et to apply à different theories: elements of the organisation - Classical approach - Rationality-irrationality - Formal - informal - Organisation and bureaucraty - Organisation and culture - Organisation and système - Organisation and strategy - Identity and work - The contingency-The configurations - Other theories- Organisation and changes
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Objectives:The objectives of the course are: - To Understand the concepts, to analyse the organizations - To Compare, to analyse different theories - To apply different concepts and different theories at the situations of the enterprise - To apply steps of research: questions, hypothesis, context, research of informations, analyse information - To be situated in organizational and institutional context and purpose solutions for the different situations-To compare his opinions and the opinions of the others-To explain critical aspects ans critical judgment. - To work in small groups -
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Planned learning activities and learning events are face- to- face presentations, interactyives methods, participative and production methods:
Research information 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, 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 in amphi Exemples, case studies, conferences in small groups Distance follow up for the preparation of the cases, the work of research of informations in the compagny
Recommended or required readings
Power point on lola hec ulg ac be
To know more:
J.Robert, Organisations et changements en entreprise., Editions de l'Université de Liège, 2007.
Stephen Robbins ans Mary Coulter, Management, 8° ed., International Edition, Pearson, 2005.
Assessment methods and criteria
Continue assessment
Assessment of knowledge
Assessment of research work (interview in compagny, analyse and comparaison with the course)
Assessment criteria
- To know concepts and theory
- To analyse a case
- Research information
- Analyse information
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
see website lola hec.ulg.ac.be