Organizational Principles [IHDCB141]

Learning outcomes

The organisation is the IT specialist's "field". Understanding it and being able to analyse an organisational situation is a recurring requirement of IT professions.

Future professionals need to think critically about organisations, both in terms of their expertise and in terms of their career path and well-being at work.


 

Objectives

The course aims to develop a threefold competence:

    Theoretical: understanding the concepts of organisational analysis
    Critical: being able to take a step back from an organisation and its various components
    Reflective: questioning one's expectations and professional opportunities in terms of work contexts and career paths

The course is aimed at students who, for the most part, are already working in the corporate or administrative world and therefore have an organisational background. On this basis, the course aims to provide students with a set of conceptual elements that will help them to construct their own grid for analysing an organisation.

Content

The course is an introduction to organisational theory and its history, marked by various organisational perspectives and paradigms. It is structured around three perspectives: positivism, interpretativism and post-modernism, and considers the notions of structure, culture and politics.