Duration
50h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English 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 allows the understanding of the different functions of the organisations in links with the comptencies of the referential.
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 critical 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.
The students will analyze his representation and will make differenes between these representation, the conclusion of academic studies and practical situations as mentionned in the competencies referential.
Contenus: To understand and to apply different theories: elements of the organisation - Function-Design and structures- - Motivation and implication-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 change-Ethic and social responsibility
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 information - To be situated in organizational and institutional context and purpose solutions for the different situations-analyse scientific atricles-To compare his opinions and the opinion 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, interactives methods, participative, collaborative and production methods:
Research of informations in writing suport to acquire knowledge and to explore
Presentation face- to -face to explain writing suport. Distance learning for some points.
Examples,case studies to present knowledge and to understand and analyse
Exercises in small groups to analyse cases, videos. Distance learning for the working group.
Debates about some concepts (limited rationality, informel aspects, culture) with meta reflexive approach critical aspects
Final activity with integration of the different concepts of the course. Présentation consultancy compagny; Reception, Exploration, questions
Analyse of one organization, interview working paper or other 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 some parts oif the course, the work of research of informations in the compagny , exercices.
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
Evaluation of knowledge
Report (interview in compagny, lecture of article, analyse and comparaison with the course) two parts: Ggoup report and individual report,
Assessment criteria
- To know concepts and theories
- To analyse a case
- Research information
- Analyse information
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
see website lola hec.ulg.ac.be