2013/2014
KAN-SOL_OS49 Organizing Processes
| English Title |
| Organizing
Processes |
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| Language |
English |
| Exam ECTS |
7.5 ECTS |
| Type |
Mandatory |
| Level |
Full Degree Master |
| Duration |
One Quarter |
| Course period |
Autumn, Second Quarter |
| Time Table |
Please see course schedule at e-Campus |
| Study board |
Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business
Administration
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| Course
coordinator |
- Tor Hernes - Department of Organization
(IOA)
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Course responsible:
Tor Hernes (th.ioa@cbs.dk)
Course secretary: Mette Ellekrog (mbe.ioa@cbs.dk) |
| Main academic
disciplines |
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Last updated on
05-08-2013
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| Learning objectives |
At the exam the students must be able
to:
- Critically reflect on implications of the theories of
organizing processes and technologies for managing in
organizations
- Demonstrate thorough understanding of theories of sensemaking
and framing, and how they relate to each other
- Account for how the theories in the course may be used to
understand the dynamics of organizing processes
- Account for various perspectives on technology and
organizing
- Identify and analyze how different types of technologies are
constitutive elements of Strategy-making, Organizational practices,
and Leadership/management
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| Course prerequisites |
| Organizing Processses must be taken
together with the course Organizing Technologies as they have a
common exam |
| Examination |
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Organizing
Technologies in conjunction with Organizing
Processes:
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| Examination form |
Oral exam based on written product
In order to participate in the oral exam, the written product
must be handed in before the oral exam; by the set deadline. The
grade is based on an overall assessment of the written product and
the individual oral performance. |
| Individual or group exam |
Group exam, max. 5 students in the
group |
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The oral exam is individual and based on the
group project.
Ordinary exam takes place in December/January. |
| Size of written product |
Max. 15 pages |
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10 pages for a single student |
| Assignment type |
Project |
| Duration |
Written product to be submitted on specified date and
time.
20 min. per student, including examiners' discussion of grade,
and informing plus explaining the grade |
| Preparation time |
No preparation |
| Grading scale |
7-step scale |
| Examiner(s) |
Internal examiner and external examiner |
| Exam period |
December/January and December/January |
| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
If a student is ill during the oral
exam, he/she will be able to re-use the project at the make-up
exam. If the student was ill during the writing of the project and
did not contribute to the project, the make-up/re-exam project can
be written individually or in groups (provided the other students
are taking the make-up/re-exam). If the student did not pass the
regular exam, the examiner decides whether a new or revised
project, must be handed in to a new deadline specified by the line
secretariat. Reexam takes place in
Feb/March.
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| Course content and
structure |
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The course views organizing as an ongoing process of applying
various means in order to create social commitment towards
organizational aims. Commitment evolves through what is called
sensemaking processes consisting of actions and interpretations
among various people. Management of organizing process takes place
as attempts by management to “frame” sensemaking among
organizational members. Management may resort to three different
types of framing, called material, social and cognitive. The course
explains how each of these framing types impacts differently on
sensemaking in the organization. A specificity of the view of
framing and sensemaking is that represent ongoing activity, i.e. it
is never finished, moreover that every attempts at framing entail
what is referred to as “overflows” leading to new framing attempts
in turn. The main goal of the course is to provide students with
knowledge of the theories behind organizing processes and to use
those theories to understand the dynamics and to be able to
comprehend managerial implications.
Overlap with Organizing theories (OT)
Both Organizing Processes (OP) and Organizing Technologies
(OT) focus on the role of various of technologies in
maintaining and transforming organizations. OT concentrates on the
role of technologies, and draws extensively on Actor-network
Theory. OP includes technologies in a narrower sense, by focusing
on material framing of organizing processes. The theories used in
OP are analytically consistent with those used at OT. The OP
and OT courses are integrated in a shared workshop.
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| Teaching methods |
| Dialogue-based lectures and case
discussions. A workshop will be held with Organizing
Technologies. |
| Expected literature |
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Orlikowski (1996)
Improvising organizational transformation over time: A situated
change perspective.Information Systems research
7(1):63-92.
Weick, Karl E. (2001) Sensemaking in Organizations: Small
Structures with Large Consequenses in Making sense of the
organization. Ch 1 (pp 5-31)
Callon, M., (1998), 'An essay on framing and overflowing:
economic externalities revisited by sociology', in Callon, M.,
(Ed.), The Laws of the Markets, Blackwell, Oxford, pp.
244-269.
Hernes, Tor (2004)
Studying composite boundaries : A framework of analysis.
Human Relations 57(1):9-29.
Trist, Eric, and Ken Bamforth (1951)
Some Social and Psychological Consequencesof the Longwall
Method of Coal Getting. Human Relations 4:3.
Rothschild-Whitt, Joyce (1979)
The collectivist organization: An alternative to
rational-bureaucraticmodels. American Sociological Review
44:509–27.
Chen, Cathrine K. (2009) Enabling creative chaos.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (240 pages)
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Last updated on
05-08-2013
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