Human resources management [EFASM058]

Learning outcomes

This course has the following five learning objectives:

• to awaken the student to the complexity of human behaviour and interpersonal dynamics in a professional environment;
• to identify the different aspects and challenges of organisational and human management;
• to provide tools for understanding the foundations of organisational behaviour;
• to provide analytical and theoretical frameworks for practical application;
• provide a critical and limiting approach

Objectives

At the end of this course the student will be able to:

• to produce a general diagnosis that sheds light on the place of the individual in the organisational dynamic
• to analyse relational dynamics and in particular to be able to understand the main determinants of subjective dynamics at work, particularly with regard to the prevention of psychosocial risks

Content

The course will be organised around the presentation of three paradigms (or approaches) from which this analysis of organisations can be conducted. It is therefore envisaged as a journey along which the relation between individual and organisation will be successively reinterrogated from different perspectives, so as to consider all its complexity and richness. The first part of the course will be devoted to the analytical contributions of classical approaches in social sciences. The classical notions of structure, coordination and the impact of contingency factors on organisational dynamics will be examined. The issues of design and efficiency, in particular, will also be critically analysed. The second part will be devoted to the contributions of constructivist approaches in social sciences. The concepts of power and justice, in particular, will be explored in greater depth during the presentations in this part. The third part will go into more detail on the contributions of clinical approaches in the social sciences (clinical sociology and work clinic) and the notions of ordeal and recognition. This theoretical and empirical journey will be considered, not to oppose these approaches to each other or to favour certain analyses over others but, on the contrary, to consider their complementarity when applied to concrete work situations or to more transversal issues