Duration
24h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Project to organize a training for social workers, project to computerize archival data, project to market a new product... We talk more and more about project management. Some even talk about a "projectisation" of private companies, public administrations and non-profit organizations. What does it mean ?
On the one hand, this course aims at questionning the origins, causes and consequences of the introduction of project management in organizations: what do projects change in the organization of work? what are the advantages of the projects? what are the excesses and dangers of project logic?
On the other hand, this course proposes to analyze project management by using several sociological tools: the city by projects, the sociology of organizations, professional groups, gender, professional dispositions are all reading grids we will use to study different facets of project management and its effects on organizations and workers.
During the different sessions, the students will carry out a written work of definition and implementation of a project in an organization and will confront their project with several sociological approaches.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- Acquire knowledge on the genesis of project management in public and private organizations and on methodologies, paradigms, and classical approaches of project management;
- To be able to distinguish different sociological approaches to project management, i.e. different ways of sociologically analyzing the causes, practices, representations and effects of the implementation of project management systems in organizations (cités par projets, professional groups, social classes, gender, etc.);
- To be able to conduct a semi-structured interview in an organization and to analyze it based on the sociological concepts and tools discussed in class.
- To be able to use theoretical concepts in a sociological analysis of a concrete project.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Face-to-face sessions and/or remote sessions depending on sanitary measures.
Analysis of a concrete project using different sociological concepts.
Recommended or required readings
Recommended readings are available under the section "Items online"
Exam(s) in session
August-September exam session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Additional information:
The evaluation of the first session (June) consists of an individual written essay that analyzes a project. The essay uses the 5 main sociological approaches seen in the course (precise instructions were given during the first course and are included in a sheet in the Course Materials on My.ULiege). This work, done at home, must be submitted by mid-April (date set during the course) by email to aude.lejeune@uliege.be.
In case of failure, the second session (September) consists of an oral exam on the content of the course and the essay.
Work placement(s)
Not applicable
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Aude Lejeune
aude.lejeune@uliege.be