Project management: sociological approaches

Duration

24h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Aude Lejeune

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

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.

Over the sessions, students will learn how to use these different analytical frameworks to analyse specific projects.

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 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)

Recommended or required readings

Recommended readings are available under the section "Items online"

Exam(s) in session

May-June exam session

- In-person

oral exam

August-September exam session

- In-person

oral exam


Additional information:

Assessment consists of an oral examination. Students will have to apply the theoretical concepts covered in the course to analyse concrete projects.
 

Work placement(s)

Not applicable

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Contacts

Aude Lejeune
aude.lejeune@uliege.be

Association of one or more MOOCs

Items online