Course - Advanced Organization Theory - BSOL4005
Advanced Organization Theory
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About
About the course
Course content
Modern organizations represent continuous tensions and paradoxes. Organizations have to learn to deal with these paradoxes. This course focuses on the themes and tensions that are central in organization theory.
We focus on exploring various perspectives to improve our understanding of the following themes:
- Organizations and organizing
- Organizations and external environment
- Physical and social structures of the organizations
- Organization culture
- Power, control and conflicts
- Paradoxes in organizations
- New perspectives in organization theory
This course focuses on the themes and tensions that are central in organization theory. The course is theoretical, but aims also at better understanding of how various theoretical perspectives can be used to reflect on actions and processes within real organizations.
Learning outcome
Knowledge
After completing the course students:
- Realize the value of being able to study organizations from different theoretical angles. This is an important knowledge that one may apply in working life.
- Can describe what organizations are and why and how they exist, how organizations look like and what/whom they are composed of,
- What processes take place within the organization and across organizations.
- Have learned organization theories and main concepts that improve their ability to understand and act in organizations.
Skills
After completed course, students can:
- Critically reflect on organizations and organization processes
- Apply different organization theoretical perspectives and organization concepts to analyze real organizations, status and processes ,
- Analyze, suggest and implement various measures and actions to make organizations more effective and adaptive.
General competence
After completed course the students can:
- Analyze organization from different theoretical angles
- Describe which practical and ethical dilemmas organization are faced with,
- Which practical and ethical challenges organizations meet,
- Have a knowledge about how one can create appropriate structure, technology, and culture that support organization activities and its adaptation to external environment.
Learning methods and activities
Lectures, case- and group work.
Compulsory assignments
- Assignment
Further on evaluation
According to policies and rules at the NTNU. Manadatory assignments are included in this course. More detailed information is to be announced at the beginning of semester. The assignments should be passed before exam. Exam counts 100 % of the grade.
No support material is allowed. Students are to be evaluated according to their level of understanding of curriculum and ability to critically reflect on organizations and organization processes, ability to apply different theoretical perspectives to understand organizations and practical challenges. Admission to study programme is required, see "special conditions".
Specific conditions
Admission to a programme of study is required:
Accounting and Auditing (MRR)
Economics (MSØK)
Economics (MSØK/5)
Economics and Business Administration (ØAMSC)
Entrepreneurship (MENTRE)
Entrepreneurship (MSENTRE)
Financial Economics (MFINØK)
Industrial Economics and Technology Management (MTIØT)
International Business and Marketing (860MIB)
Management of Technology (ØAMLT)
Required previous knowledge
None
Course materials
Kvålshaugen, R. Wennes, G. og Nesse, J. G. (2019). Organisere og lede: Dilemmaer i praksis. 2.utgave Fagbokforlaget: Bergen (evt. 1. utgave). All literature is in Norwegian.
Additional selected book chapters and articles will be announced at the beginning of semester.
Credit reductions
| Course code | Reduction | From |
|---|---|---|
| SOL405 | 7.5 sp | Spring 2016 |
Subject areas
- Organization Theory
- Economics and Administration