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2017/2018 BA-BISHO1002U Organizational Analysis
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| Organizational Analysis |
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| Language | English |
| Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
| Type | Mandatory |
| Level | Bachelor |
| Duration | One Quarter |
| Start time of the course | Autumn, Second Quarter |
| Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
| Study board |
Study Board for BSc in International Shipping and
Trade
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| Last updated on 14-12-2017 | |
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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, the students should be able to:
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This course has three main objectives. Firstly, we will familiarize you with basic concepts of organization, such as design, communication, leadership, learning and innovation; and the way they have been understood historically in organisation studies. Secondly, we will introduce you to a processual view of organizing to understand and analyse the phenomenon of organization in a fast moving and constantly changing world. Lastly, we asks you to critically engage with these concepts in groups while analysing cases from the shipping industry and presenting them in class.
The focus of organization analysis is organization as a subject in itself. This means that we will look at various industries, not only shipping, with regard to organization, as well as trends in professional organization in public and private sector. The purpose of this focus is to stimulate innovation from other industries into the shipping industry. |
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| The journey through the organizational landscape
will have tree reflective stops or elements. Based on a range of
teaching methods and course materials, the concepts from the course
will be introduced in class. As you exit the class room and enter
your maritime context, you will apply these concepts in practice.
After your practical application of the theories we will meet in
class again and discuss what you found and learned. In this way
there is a threefold division of the learning process: 1) classical
organizational theory teaching, 2) practical application in
maritime context and 3) discussion of learning output of the theory
in practice exercise. This oral theory in practice exercise is
performed in groups formed in the first session. The philosophy
behind this design is that different kinds of learning appears in
the classroom through presentation of different theories and in the
field through application in practice and that the best results
occur when these contexts and modes of learning are combined.
Guest speakers from maritime companies and visits to maritime contexts will allow us to obtain insight into how classical organizational management theories work in the maritime world: what are their weaknesses and what are their strengths - and how can you work with organizational issues in a maritime world on sea. |
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| Feedback are given in class during group work | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Movies A Highjacking, 2012, Thomas Lindholm 12 Angry Men, 1957, Sidney Lumet |
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