2015/2016
KAN-CCDCO1004U Leading Complex Organizations
| English Title |
| Leading Complex
Organizations |
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| Language |
English |
| Course ECTS |
7.5 ECTS |
| Type |
Mandatory |
| Level |
Full Degree Master |
| Duration |
One Quarter |
| Start time of the course |
Spring, Fourth Quarter |
| Timetable |
Course schedule will be posted at
calendar.cbs.dk |
| Study board |
Study Board for BSc og MSc in Business, Language and Culture,
MSc
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| Course
coordinator |
- Dan Kärreman - Department of Intercultural Communication and
Management (ICM)
- Eric Guthey - Department of Intercultural Communication and
Management (ICM)
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| Co-teacher: Dan
Karreman |
| Main academic
disciplines |
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Last updated on
08-12-2015
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| Learning objectives |
To achieve the grade 12, students
should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor
mistakes or errors: At the end of the course students should be
able to:
- Compare in detail the theoretical foundations and practical
consequences of the systems control perspective and the process
relational perspective on strategy, management and
organisation
- Define key process relational concepts including strategic
exchange, strategic enactment, and sense-making, and explain how
they help explain they help explain the dynamics and challenges
that characterize the management of complex organizations
- Use these theoretical concepts to define and evaluate the
nature of knowledge work, the skills and interests of knowledge
workers, and the complex nature of the organizational and
inter-organizational dynamics that characterize knowledge
work.
- Describe and evaluate the complexity of the challenges that
confront organizations populated by large numbers of experts,
professionals, and knowledge workers.
- Apply all of these concepts and perspectives to analyse a wide
range of cases chosen to exemplify strategic, organisational and
managerial issues and dilemmas that confront complex organizations
and the people who work in them.
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| Course prerequisites |
| Bachelor degree. The course is
offered as an elective in concentration in Diversity and Change
Management in the Masters Program in Business, Languages and
Culture (BLC), but is also open to students in other graduate
programs at the CBS, including international students. |
| Examination |
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Leading
Complex Organizations:
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| Exam ECTS |
7,5 |
| Examination form |
Home assignment - written product |
| Individual or group exam |
Individual |
| Size of written product |
Max. 10 pages |
| Assignment type |
Case based assignment |
| Duration |
Written product to be submitted on specified date
and time. |
| Grading scale |
7-step scale |
| Examiner(s) |
One internal examiner |
| Exam period |
Summer |
| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary
exam
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| Course content and
structure |
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This course prepares students for careers as effective managers
by exploring the key practical and conceptual tasks and challenges
facing complex organizations and the people who work in them.
These challenges include organizing work as a series of diverse and
challenging projects; managing project portfolios; negotiating work
tasks with experts, professionals, and knowledge workers;
maintaining integration in very diverse workplaces; and grappling
with uncertainty and change. The course stresses that in such
contexts, the strategic, organisational and cultural aspects of
management practice always intersect and overlap. At the same time,
the course explores several theories that link these dynamics
tightly together.
The course further pursues the notion that management practices
rooted in industrial regimes of production increasingly have been
superseded in many instances by new management practices that
foreground collaboration, leadership, culture and the regulation of
identity. The course therefore includes discussion of those aspects
of organisational life that are often marginalised in standard
texts, including the politics and complexities of managerial
decision-making, the personal stresses associated with managerial
work, the roles played by ordinary human interaction,
relationships, and humour in organizational settings.
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| Teaching methods |
| Class time will consist of a
combination of lectures and case-based discussions. Students will
participate actively in and analyzing presenting readings and
cases. Students will be strongly encouraged to form study groups
that meet outside of class to prepare and discuss the readings and
cases in advance. |
| Student workload |
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| Expected literature |
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Course materials consist of a textbook, journal articles, and
business cases. All students are responsible for obtaining
all course materials and for showing up for class ready to discuss
them. The case materials assigned for this course are all
available for purchase at the Harvard Business School Publishing.
Indicative Literature:
Tony Watson, Organising and Managing Work. Financial Times/
Prentice Hall; 2 edition (10 Jan 2006).
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Last updated on
08-12-2015
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