Organisational studies

Teacher(s)

Dejean Karine;

Language

French

Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

Students will take over specific tools of thought to apprehend the organisations and their operation. The organisations’ life is characterized by uncertain and sometimes contradictory complex situations. To consider this complexity, it is important to mobilize multiple perspectives. Students will therefore be taught to use these approaches and be made aware of the presuppositions and the values underlying each of them. At the end of this course, students will also be capable of looking critically at the contributions and the limits of the different approaches presented. Change having become a structural component of organisations’ operation, the course will also get students to develop a reflection on the notions of change and conduct of change. Additionally, students will be capable of understanding the organisations’ contemporary evolutions in light of the challenges they are facing in order to interpret the contemporary psychological pathologies developed in these organisations.

Content

The course will present the big schools of thought in the area of organisations since the founders (Taylor, Ford, Fayol, Weber, Mayo) until the most recent perspectives (postmodern approaches, freedom-form company, lean management, agile company).

It will address a series of central concepts in the theory of organisations: the organisation and its environment, the social structure of organisations, the organisational culture, leadership, power, the decision-making processes, the control processes, and conflicts.

The questions of individual, organisational, and group identity will also be addressed. The situations of work will be analysed through the psychodynamic of work’s angle.

Finally, the processes of change within the organisations will also be studied:
- the models of change;
- the management of planned change;
- the management of resistances to change; the emerging change and the learning organisation.

Teaching methods

On an educational level, the course will consist of lectures. It relies on a pedagogy of discovering concepts through studies of cases.
Group work consisting of an analysis of an organisation based on interviews is expected.

Evaluation methods

The assessment is in two parts. The first relates to work analyzing an organization in subgroups (25 %). The second part consists of a written exam (75%). This part will include three questions: an application question and two comprehension question. A bonus point is awarded if the student has completed the three home works. In the event of failure in the first session, bonus points are not transferred to the second session.

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