Durham Business School
Plagiarism is not acceptable and will always be reported
Teaching Staff
Aims
Key Concepts
Classes and Location
Programme
Assessment
Readings
Additional Readings
Contact
Teaching Staff
Module Convenor:
Dr. Yanjun Guan
Teachers:
Prof. dr hab. Monika Kostera
Miss Gianna Huhn
Mr. Greg Oxley
Up
Aims
Module information
Module Aims:
- To provide a fundamental foundation for the understanding of people, management and organisations within contemporary society. To introduce students to the concepts that underlie explanations of individual and group behaviour and the structure and functioning of organisations. Students will be encouraged to apply these concepts to a range of issues including their own experience through learning from lectures, seminars and investigative projects.
- To address collaborative and action mindsets
Learning Outcomes:
Subject-specific Knowledge:
- Understand the conceptual foundations for explaining behaviour, management and organisation
- Review different perspectives on people, management and organisation.
- Appreciate and apply theories, models, frameworks and basic research methods to examine issues relevant to people, management and organisations
- Gain further knowledge and understanding of contemporary themes and issues relevant to the management of people and organisations (e.g. corporate social responsibility).
Subject-specific Skills:
- Apply appropriate skills of enquiry and explanation
Key Skills:
- Written communication
- Computer Literacy
- Self-management
Up
Key concepts
Culture, context, organizing & organizations
Up
Classes and Location
Durham and Queens Campus.
Lectures and seminars.
Up
Programme Term 2 (Epiphany)
Week |
Lectures |
Reading |
Lecturer |
Seminar
Topic |
Seminar
Reading |
(Week 26) |
(1)
Organizing and organizations
|
Cunliffe & Hatch (Chapter 1, 2)
Fineman, Gabriel & Sims (Chapter 1) |
MK |
|
|
(Week 27) |
(2)
Organizational symbolism and culture
|
Cunliffe & Hatch (Chapter 6)
Kunda (Chapter 1) |
MK |
5. Cultures of organizing and organizational symbolism |
Czarniawska (Chapters 1,2,3) |
(Week 28) |
(3)
Physical structure
|
Cunliffe & Hatch (Chapter 7) |
MK |
5. Cultures of organizing and organizational symbolism |
Czarniawska
(Chapters 1,2,3) |
(Week 29) |
(4)
Organizational symbolism revisited: Identity and change
|
Hatch (1993); Hatch & Schultz (1997)
|
MK |
6. Spacing and organizing
|
Lecture material on physical structure and space
|
(Week 30) |
(5)
Technology |
Cunliffe & Hatch (Chapter 5) |
MK |
6. Spacing and organizing
|
Lecture material on physical structure and space
|
(Week 31) |
(6)
Social structure |
Cunliffe & Hatch (Chapter 4) |
MK |
7. Organizational technology |
Lecture material on technology
Czarniawska (Chapter 4) |
(Week 32) |
(7)
Fashions in organizing and management |
Czarniawska (Chapter 8) |
MK |
7. Organizational technology |
Lecture material on technology(Czarniawska, Chapter 4) |
(Week 33) |
(8)
The experience economy
|
Hjorth & Kostera (Part I) |
MK |
8. Fashions |
Lecture material on fashions
Czarniawska (Chapter 8) |
(Week 34) |
(9)
Organizational imagination |
Morgan (Part I)
Parker (Chapters 8,9)
Bauman et al. (Chapters 2,3) |
MK |
8. Fashions |
Lecture material on fashions
(Czarniawska (Chapter 8) |
EASTER BREAK |
(Week 40) |
Review and revision / examination briefing |
None |
YG/MK |
|
Up
Assessment
Formative Assessment:
The formative assessment comprises a group presentation and written report based on an enquiry that your group undertakes into the issue of diversity management in organisations. Presentations will take place in the last scheduled seminar of the Michaelmas term and group reports are to be submitted on a date to be announced in December 2016. Further details will be available on DUO nearer the time.
Feedback on the formative assessment will be provided in written form to each group; more generic feedback will be given at the beginning of the Epiphany term and posted on DUO.
Summative Assessment:
The module is assessed by means of an individually-based summative assignment (40%), and a closed book examination (60%) in May 2017.
Details of the summative assignment together with the submission deadline will be posted on DUO in due course. General feedback on the summative assignment will be posted on DUO.
The examination will consist of essay-style questions where a choice of questions covering material from across the module will be available.
Assessment Criteria:
Performance in the formative and summative assessments for the module is judged against the following criteria:
Up
Readings Term 2
Up
Additional Recommended Readings Term 2
- Czarniawska, B. (2014). A Theory of Organizing. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Morgan, G. (1986 / 1997 / 2006). Images of Organization. London: Sage.
Further reading:
- Bauman, Z., Bauman, I., Kociatkiewicz, J., & Kostera, M. (2016). Management in a liquid modern world. London: Polity.
- Fineman, S., Gabriel, Y., & Sims, D. (1992/2000/2010). Organizing & organizations: An introduction. London: Sage.
- Hatch, M. J. (1993) "The dynamics of organizational culture," Academy of Management Review 18/4, s. 657-663
- Hatch, M. J & i M. Schultz (1997) “Relations between organizational culture, identity and image.” European Journal of Marketing, 5/6, s.356-365.
- Hjorth, Daniel and Monika Kostera (2007) (eds) Entrepreneurship and the Experience Economy. Copenhagen Business School, Press.
- Hochshild, A. (2012). The managed heart. Los Angeles: UCLA Press.
- Kunda, G. (1992). Engineering culture: Control and commitment in a high-tech corporation. Philadelphia : Temple University Press.
- Parker, M. (2011). Alternative business: Outlaws, crime and culture. London: Routledge.
- Weick, K. E. (2000). Making sense of the organization. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
Up
Contact
Email me
Up
|
|