Management of Organizations

The “Management of Organizations” e-learning course aims at offering the students different theoretical and practical perspectives regarding how modern organizations are structured and work in practice.

To do so, the following variables are examined: organizational structure, division and coordination of work between operators along key processes, departmentalization, liaison mechanisms between units, decision-making processes, authority and power relations, power games, institutional goals and objectives, contextual influences on organizational choices, etc. Constructed mainly according to an analytical logic, the course aims to make students aware of the diversity of contemporary organizations and the importance of taking managerial actions that correspond to the specific reality of each institution, whether private companies or public bodies.

On the methodological level, this e-learning course is based on several complementary multimedia resources to help the students in their learning process:
- a written syllabus and several theoretical podcasts, where students will find theoretical explanations of the main usual concepts in “Organization Theory” as well as several summaries (tables, graphs, etc.) to help the students in their learning process;
- written and video case studies, to been seen as practical illustrations of the theoretical concepts;
- video case studies, exercises and quizzes, to be seen not only as practical illustrations of the theoretical concepts but also as an interesting opportunity for students to concretely check out their understanding of the concepts through real case analyses.