sow940 - Theoretical Approaches (Course overview)

sow940 - Theoretical Approaches (Course overview)

Department of Social Sciences 9 KP
Module components Semester courses Winter semester 2024/2025 Examination
Lecture
Seminar
  • Limited access 1.07.411 - Approaches to Organisations Show lecturers
    • Prof. Dr. Jannika Mattes

    Tuesday: 10:00 - 12:00, weekly (from 15/10/24)
    The seminar "Approaches to Organisations" provides an overview on conceptual approaches to organisations, among them conceptualisations of organisations as rational and natural systems in a closed and in an open perspective (i.a. Weber, Taylor, Luhmann, Scott). The seminar also introduces students to crucial organisational processes such as specialisation and coordination, micro politics and decision-making processes and the interaction between the organisation and its environment. The seminar grants insights in varieties of organisations and enables students to analyse their core characteristics and the inherent processes.
Notes on the module
Kapazität/Teilnehmerzahl 25
Module examination

1 Portfolio comprising
2 short oral presentations of 10-20 minutes
2 written reports with a length of 1.700 – 2.500 words each
Skills to be acquired in this module
After completing this module, students will know central theoretical approaches of the study of organisations in the social sciences. They have an overview of central characteristics of organisations and will be able to assess current trends in organisational practice and research. They will be able to understand organisations as collective systems in which actors interact with each other and their environment. Students analyse collective action and collective decision making within and between organisations. They apply organisation theory to current events and learn to integrate it in their own research projects.