2024/2025 BA-BHAAI1041U Organisational Behaviour and Organisational Analysis
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Organisational Behaviour and Organisational Analysis |
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Language | English |
Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
Type | Elective |
Level | Bachelor |
Duration | Summer |
Start time of the course | Summer |
Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
Min. participants | 30 |
Max. participants | 100 |
Study board |
Study Board for BSc in Economics and Business
Administration
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For academic questions related to the course, please contact course instructor Kinga Konczey (kiko.ioa@cbs.dk). | |
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Last updated on 07/11/2024 |
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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:
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Course content, structure and pedagogical approach | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Organisations are everywhere in different forms, size,
internal structure, tasks, and goals. This course will expose
students to important theories and conceptual models for analysing
and understanding organisations with the aim of designing effective
structures and cultures that allow them to create value, survive,
develop and thrive. The course will articulate that employees do
not always act in a rational and consistent manner. Our ability -
whether as a new employee, a middle manager, or a top level
executive - to understand, explain, and predict human behaviour in
organisations is a valuable skill. We will study a wide range of
organisational situations and examples, and connect them to
organisational theories and effective management methods.
We will bridge theory and practice through organisational
analysis by exploring a series of successful and unsuccessful
examples. Students will learn to apply different theoretical
perspectives in our attempt to provide situational analysis and
plausible solutions. No single model of an effective
organisation will be advocated - no "right answer" that
can be applied universally; rather, we will explore the factors and
conditions within and outside an organisation that can be
controlled to provide the best fit with the dynamic environment and
thereby create the greatest opportunity for success. The
imperative for organisational learning, continuous adaptation, and
change based on new developments will be emphasized.
Class 1: Organisational theories, Organisational behaviour
Class 5: Group processes: Conflict management Class 6: Organisational processes: Leading with and without authority Class 7: Decision making; Organised anarchy
Feedback activity: Organisational analysis
Class 8: Organisational Culture, Structure and Design; Knowledge management, Learning organisation Class 9: The organisation and its environment: Resource dependency, Organisational ecologies Class 10: Organisational analysis presentation (live or
online upload, depending on class size)
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Academic concepts and theories will be introduced through readings and focused lectures (a combination of pre-recorded and in class). Experiential learning tools will be incorporated in the study program, such as inventories, problem solving exercises, role plays, case studies, film clips, games, and simulations, as well as in-class experiments. Collective learning will emerge through the creative class work. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Feedback during the teaching period | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Group based organisational analysis.
Project groups (of 4-5 students) will choose a concrete organisation to analyse. There will be a workshop class where groups will prepare their organisational analysis, design and prepare a max 8 minutes presentation Further information on Canvas |
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6-week course.
Preliminary Assignment: Organizational Metaphors: This task is aimed at developing an overall understanding of organisations, using creative thinking. First, you need to read Part III. Implications for Practice of Gareth Morgan ‘s book, Images of Organization. Then you need to think of: (a) an organisation with more than a dozen employees in which you have worked / interned or (b) a non-employer organisation you have known well through some kind of exposure (school, sport, ...). Identify an image, or metaphor, which fits this organisation well. Draft a short note which develops the appropriateness of the metaphor in this setting. Briefly describe the overall organization, its survival strategy, the key parts, the relationships among parts, the degree to which the parts get along well with each other, & any other characteristics which are relevant -- all through the medium of your selected metaphor. Bring this draft with you to the first class for class work. More details on Canvas.
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Expected literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Mandatory readings:
Robbins, Stephen P. Essentials of Organizational Behavior
(Global edition) 14th ed. Prentice Hall
Additional relevant readings:
Brooks, Ian: Organisational Behaviour. Prentice Hall, 5th ed,
2018 (340 p.)
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