General description

Course deals with the models and practices of organization analysis and organizational development.

Learning outcomes

After attending the course a student
1 is able to approach organizations from different theoretical and practical development perspectives
2 knows different traditions, current schools, and different practical approaches on the issue of organizational development
3 understands the most important laws in organizational dynamics and organizational change

Contents

1 Organizational structures, and basics of organizational design
2 Meaning and use of organization theory in organizational development
3 Organizational development: traditions and schools
4 Organizational development in practice: models, fads, and tools
5 Organisaatiot monimutkaisina systeemeinä ja niiden muutosdynamiikka
6 Change dynamics of organizations as complex systems

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Lectures	20 h	0 h

Lectures (20 h) with attached reading material, or a Web Course.

Teaching language

Finnish, English

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Recommended year of study

2. year autumn

Study materials

1. Morgan, Gareth: Images of Organization. SAGE, Updated edition 2006.
2. Pfeffer, Jeffrey: New Directions for Organization Theory. Oxford University Press 1997.

Pfeffer's book is also available in the e-library (Ebrary).

Belongs to following study modules