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2016/2017 KAN-CPHIO1502U Philosophical Investigations in Contemporary Worklife
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| Philosophical Investigations in Contemporary Worklife |
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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 | Fourth Quarter |
| Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
| Max. participants | 70 |
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Study Board for BSc/MSc in Business Administration and
Philosophy, MSc
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| Last updated on 15-08-2016 | |
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To achieve the grade 12, students
should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor
mistakes or errors:
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The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge about challenges in contemporary work-life. The main thesis put forward in the course is that these challenges can be framed as a question of self-management. In the course the students will gain insights into some of the contemporary issues that arise when the organization’s or collectives success stems from discretionary and unspecific employee behaviors that cannot be defined by job descriptions or controlled by management. Students will be working on various empirical examples about the challenges of being a self-managing employee in such a work-life. The student will learn to analyze and understand these examples in light of three questions: what does it mean to be a self-managing subject? What and how do individual and collective habits form our self-management? Which role does the current call for resilient employees imply for our conceptions of self-management? By combining management texts, philosophical concepts and empirical field work the student will get a practical as well as philosophical insight into these three questions.
The course runs over five weeks. |
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| Class time will include lectures, and discussion groups in which students will explore theoretical perspectives and apply them to specific empirical examples. The students are expected to have read and be familiar with the assigned readings when coming to class. As well as have done the work-task they are assigned between classes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Drucker, P (1999): ’Knowledge-worker productivity’, in California Management Review. 41(2), 79-94
Kunda, G. and Van Maanen, J.M. (1999) Changing Scripts at Work: Managers and Professionals,The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 56,: 64-68
Maravelias, C. (2007): Freedom at Work in the Age of Post-Bureaucratic Organization. Ephemera 7(4), 555-574
Ravaisson, F. (2008) Of habit. London: Continuum.p. 25-71.
Duhiggs, C. (2012) The Habit Loop, in The Power of Habit. New York. Random House. P. 3-30.
Dewey, J. (1922) Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology. New York, NY, USA: Henry Holt and Company. Read part one: Habit
Pedersen, M. (2008): Tune in, break down and reboot – new machines for coping with the stress of commitment. Culture and Organization, 14 (2), pp. 171-185
Evans, B and J. Reid (2014) Resilient Life – the Art of Dangerous Living. Cambridge: Polity Press |
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