People, Management and Organizations

BUSS 1141

Durham Business School

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Teaching Staff

Aims

Key Concepts

Classes and Location

Programme

Assessment

Readings

Additional Readings

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Teaching Staff

Module Convenor:

Dr. Yanjun Guan

Teachers:

Prof. dr hab. Monika Kostera

Miss Gianna Huhn

Mr. Greg Oxley

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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

 

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Key concepts

Culture, context, organizing & organizations

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Classes and Location

Durham and Queens Campus.

Lectures and seminars.

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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

 

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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:

  • Relevance to question(s)

  • Organisation, structure and presentation

  • Depth of understanding

  • Analysis and discussion

  • Use of sources and referencing

  • Overall conclusions.

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Readings Term 2

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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.

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