Modulbeschreibung

Organisational Behaviour

ECTS-Credits:
6
Lernziele:

Organizations increasingly find themselves in a dynamic context that often leads to profound changes in the interaction of "strategy-structure-culture." In a digitally oriented and knowledge-based economy and society, competencies and their interplay at the individual, team and organizational level are becoming a decisive competitive factor and meaning a crucial resource. From an integrative-systemic point of view, it is important to discover resource-based potentials against the background of humanity, responsibility, performance and efficiency and to develop them in a target-oriented way. 


Guiding questions are: How does one control service production in the company with regard to its environment, what are the current and future possibilities? Examples? How do the various forms of structure, process including project management differ, what is known about the results, how can industry differences be systematized?


The students should be able to understand and evaluate different possibilities of service provision in companies. Organizational structures and processes as well as their changes are understood and can be applied to real life examples


Students should know and understand changes in the world of work as well as the goals and tasks of people management and their significance. The following topics will be explored: Work, employment and developments in the world of work as well as the perspective of people in the organization and the Employee Lifecycle in its essential elements.

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Organisational Behaviour:

Topic area I: Fundamentals

  • The St.Gallen management model with focus on environmental spheres, stakeholders, interaction topics as well as moments of order (strategy, structure, culture, governance)
  • Organizations as systems of meaning and communication
  • Understanding of culture and the culture model according to Edgar Schein
  • Images of people in organizations in the 20th and 21st century

 

Topic area II: Building blocks and dynamics of effective organisations

  • Introduction to organizational thinking and design: Images, perspectives, contradictions
  • Taylorism, Fordism, bureaucracy; classical organizational forms and design elements, structure and process organization, processes and process controlling
  • Matrix and project organizations, the role of the environment, adaptation to or shaping of the milieu, types of organizations / configurations, the discovery of the human factor
  • Systems theory, Systemic management, Trivial and non-trivial machines, On the way to self-organization, Cybernetics and other control fantasies, The role of technology
  • Organization as performative system, The new spirit of capitalism, Artists in the organization
  • The organization as a political system: power, governance, regulatory fantasies
  • The organization in change: emergent vs. planned and controlled change, transformation models, ambidextry and its various manifestations

 

Pit stop - A look back to the future
Collection of lessons learned so far - Transition to people management

  • Organizations as social systems: Integrating the different perspectives
  • Modern organizational models: Besides innovation and efficiency, where does that leave people?

 

Topic area III: HR Management

  • Significance and Evolution of Human Resource Management

  • Role, Responsibilities, and Organizational Integration of HRM

  • Strategic and Operational Human Resource Management

  • Employee Lifecycle as a Framework for Collaboration Between the Organization and Employees

  • Key HR Processes Throughout the Employee Lifecycle

  • Current Trends in the World of Work (Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence, Demographic Change, Sustainability)

  • Impact of current developments on organizations, managers, and employees

  • Practical application using case studies, corporate examples, and discussions

     

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