Introduction to organization analysis, Theory

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Jocelyne Robert

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

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.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Planned learning activities and learning , interactyives methods, participative and production methods:
Research information in writing suport to acquire knowledge and to explore

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, production auto-analysis 

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Distance learning with if possible face to face lesson.
 
Question/answer time and follow up. 
 
 
 
 

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.

Any session :

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )

- Remote

written exam

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred in-person


Additional information:

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

Organisational nformation will be communicate by myulg and lola

Contacts

Jocelyne.robert@ulg.ac.be

Association of one or more MOOCs

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