Students who successfully complete the course will show a solid knowledge of the main theoretical and research assumptions and approaches within the discipline, as well as an indepth understanding of some specific content and objects. In particular, she/he should develop an adequate knowledge in terms of:
- Main approaches (metaphors and theories) to the study of work and non-work organizational processes and forms;
- Interdisciplinary foundations of the research field with special emphasis on the integration of sociological, economic, cultural and ecological assumptions;
- Main objects of study: work, organization and society; organizational needs; relationships between organizational and environmental processes; innovation and transformation of production processes, labor relations, power relations and inequalities; rationality, conscious purpose and the role of the unconscious and
emotional perception.
- In-depth thematic insights by student's choice:
1. Learning, leadership and decision-making processes in democratic organizations;
2. Bureaucracy, Managerialism and Participation: ambivalence of change in public administration and welfare systems;
3. Ecology, evolution and organizational processes: systemic approaches to sustainable development;
4. IV Industrial revolution and organizational processes: the political, socio-economic and environmental implications of the second machine age;
5. The anti-democratic organization: historical-philosophical assumptions and contemporary aspects of Nazi managerialism;