Duration
30h Th, 15h SEM
Number of credits
Lecturer
Substitute(s)
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 coursez will give some tools in the observation and understanding of organisations, their functioning in all its complexity, their internal structures and their environment, as well as the interactions between actors and their power games (cooperation and tensions).
The first part will address the historic approach of organization studies.
The second part of the course will give an overview over the typology of organisations proposed by Mintzberg and contextualism.
The third part will look in more depth the strategic analysis of organizations by Crozier and Friedberg's work on local orders.
The fourth part of the course will delve into the approch of "sensemaking" developped by Weick and Czarniawska.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
fundamental concepts of analytical frameworks
application to case studies
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
none
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Discussion of case studies prepared by text readings, summaries presented by teacher, exercicses.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
in presence but distance teaching can be organized if necessary (please contact the teacher)
Recommended or required readings
all texts posted on myulg
Assessment methods and criteria
writen multiple choice exam:
- knowledge pf concepts
- capactiy for application to case studies
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
FJ.Shaik@uliege.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
- Understanding and applying concepts
- application of concepts to concrete cases
Subject matter:
1. Scientific perspectives of work organization and the school of human relations. The development of the analysis of organizations over time.
2. The analysis of organizational configurations (developed by Henri Mintzberg)-this will involve being able to qualify various dimensions of organizations (division of labor, coordination of work, type of authority, qualification of workers, markets, etc.) in order to better understand their form (i.e. their structure, their formal organization) ;
3. strategic analysis of organizations (developed by Michel Crozier and Erhard Friedberg)-based on the concrete study of a bureaucratic organization producing tobacco, we will describe and characterize the different groups of actors making up this organization, their practices, the interactions they establish between them, power games, tensions, etc., i.e. so many informal dimensions in the life of the organization.
Assessment methods
Multiple Choice Questionnaire (MCQ): the exam will consist in a multiple choice questionnaire which will be held via the application eCampus in a limited time frame, at a distance (online).
Contacts
fj.shaik@uliege.be