| Læringsaktiviteter: | The course will consist of 12 weeks of teaching, made up of lectures, exercises, group activities and preparation for exam. In the exercise sessions students may draw on examples and experiences from other courses or their own work experience, and in addition we will discuss case material that illustrates the various approaches.
SYLLABUS
1) Introduction to the course – Monday the 27th January 2014
Setting the scene with Mary Jo Hatch.
Introduction to Morgans methaphors and how they can be used to look at organizations.
Hatch, Mary Jo (2012) ‘A brief history of organization theory’, Chap. 2 in Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern Perspectives (OUP Oxford): pp. 19-56 (37 p.)
Morgan, Gareth (1997) ‘Introduction’, Chap. 1 in Images of Organization (London: Sage): pp. 3-8 (5 p.)
2) Organizations as machines – Monday the 3rd February 2014
Introduction to ways of thinking about technology in organizations.
How can organizations be looked at as machines. Discussion of which role IT plays for a machine perspective.
Hatch, Mary Jo (2012) ‘Technology’, Chap. 5 in Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern Perspectives, pp. 127-157 (30 p.)
Morgan, Gareth (1997) ‘Mechanization Takes Command: Organizations as Machines’, chap. 2 in Images of Organization, pp. 11-31 (21 p).
3) Organizations as organisms – Monday the 10th February 2014
How can organizations be looked at as organisms. Discussion of which role IT plays for an organism perspective and comparison with the machine perspective.
Morgan, Gareth (1997) ‘Nature Intervenes: Organizations as Organisms, chap. 3 in
Images of Organization, pp. 33-71 (28 p).
4) Organizations as cultures – Monday the 17th February 2014
How can organizations be looked at as culture? What constitutes culture, how does it emerge and in which ways can it be manipulated?
Morgan, Gareth (1997) ’Creating Social Reality: Organizations as Cultures’, chap 5 in Images of Organization, pp. 119-152 (33 p)
Nonaka. I (1991) ‘The Knowledge Creating Company’ Harvard Business Review 69 (6): 96-106. (11 p)
Supplementary reading:
Hatch, Mary Jo (2012) ‘Organizational Culture’, Chap. 6 in Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern Perspectives, pp. 158-199 (41 p.)
5) Organizations as Brains – Monday the 24th February
How can organizations be looked at as self-organizing processes and learning. What is the relationship between chaos, order and complexity and how are networks and learning related to organizations.
Morgan, Gareth (1997) ‘Learning and Self-organization: Organizations as Brains’, chap 4 in Images of Organization, pp. 73-118 (45 p)
6) Organizations as political systems – Monday the 3rd March 2014
How can organizations be looked at as power, force and domination? Which role does IT and surveillance play in organization?
Morgan, Gareth (1997) ‘Interest, Conflicts, and Power: Organizations as Political Systems”, chap. 6 in Images of Organization (London: Sage): 153-213. (59 p)
Supplementary reading:
Hatch, Mary Jo (2012) ‘Organizational power, control and conflict’, Chap. 8 in Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern Perspectives, pp. 229-267 (38 p.)
7) Workshop: Crowdsourcing – Monday the 10th March 2014 (9:00-16:00)
8) Workshop: Crowdsourcing - Monday the 10th March 2014 (9:00-16:00)
How can new approaches to organization and organizing work be understood and facilitated. We will look at the field of Crowdsourcing and work with topics like: open innovation, open source culture, user-driven innovation, distributed innovation, crowd sourcing.
Brabham, Daren, C. (2013): Crowdsourcing, MIT Press: pp. To be decided.
Tapscott, Don (2006): Wikinomics. New York, Penguine Group: pp. To be decided.
9) Organisations as flux and transformation – Monday the 17th March 2014
How can organizations be looked at as flux and transformation? How can humans act if everything is constantly changing, how can change and transformation be managed and which role does IT play in facilitating change.
Hand-out and information about small mandatory assignment.
Morgan, ‘Unfolding Logics of Change: Organization as Flux and Transformation’, Chap. 8 in Images of Organization, pp. 251-301 (49 p)
10) The social construction of reality as a perspective on change and innovation – Monday the 24th March 2014
How can organizations be understood as social construction and which role does language play? In this session we will investigate the creation of social realities. We will use this to talk about how the use of social media and collaborative software is shaping or creating our realities and social worlds.
Hand-in of small mandatory assignment.
Kenneth Gergen, an invitation to social constructionism. Barnett Pearce, Communication, Action and Meaning: The creation of social realities (http://pearceassociates.com/essays/documents/Communication_Action_Meaning_-_Pearce__Cronen__Searchable__Cropped_.pdf (Link)
Hatch, Mary Jo (2012) – To be decided
11) New/other perspectives in organization theory and information about exam – Monday the 31. March 2014
Lecture and discussion of new/other perspectives in organization theory and how they might influence our understanding of IT in organizations.
Feedback on the small mandatory project.
Information about and time to start up on the exam project.
Hatch, Mary Jo (2012) – To be decided
12a) Summary of course and follow-up on exam project – Monday the 7th April 2014 (2 hours from 12:00-13:50)
12b) Follow-up on exam project – Monday the 5th May 2014 (2 hours from 12:00-13:50) |
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