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BSOL4005 - Advanced Organization Theory

About

Lessons are not given in the academic year 2024/2025

Examination arrangement

Examination arrangement: School exam
Grade: Letter grades

Evaluation Weighting Duration Grade deviation Examination aids
School exam 100/100 4 hours E

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".

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 To
SOL405 7.5 SPRING 2016
More on the course

No

Facts

Version: A
Credits:  7.5 SP
Study level: Second degree level

Coursework

No

Language of instruction: Norwegian

Location: Trondheim

Subject area(s)
  • Organization Theory
  • Economics and Administration
Contact information

Department with academic responsibility
NTNU Business School

Timetable

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Examination

Examination arrangement: School exam

Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
Autumn ORD School exam 100/100 E 2024-11-25 15:00 INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
SL111 blå sone Sluppenvegen 14 2
Summer UTS School exam 100/100 E INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
  • * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
Examination

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