Introduction to Organization

Course ID

B220018401

Course Title

Teaching language

English

ECTS value

Responsible study board

Study Board of Business Economics

Date of Approval

13-03-2020

Course Responsible

Name	Email	Department
Ingo Winkler	inw@sam.sdu.dk	Institut for Marketing & Management

Offered in

Soenderborg

Level

Bachelor

Offered in

Autumn

Duration

1 semester

Mandatory prerequisites

None.

Recommended prerequisites

None.

Aim and purpose

The course aims to provide basic knowledge about the structure and design of all types of organizations and about leadership and change in organizations. Understanding organizations requires that students acquire skills and competencies to assess whether the organization is adequate, though it might be changed, and how a change should look like.

Content

The course provides insight into the key issues related to organizational structure and design. This includes concepts, theories, models, methods and processes related to:

• Leadership in Organizations
• Organizational structure
• Organizational design / architecture
• Organizational culture
• Organizational change
• Social changes and organizational changes
• Interaction between organizations and their environments
• Technology and organizational structure.

Learning goals

At the end of the course, the students must be able to:

Description of outcome - Knowledge

The students can explain the course’s terms, models, methods, and theories.

Description of outcome - Skills

The students can reflect critically on the validity of concepts, theories and models. They can also apply the course’s models, methods and theories to analyze organizations and develop general recommendations for developing organizational members’ behaviour,

Description of outcome - Competences

The students can suggest solutions for specific organizational problems and challenges. They can also explain the scientific theoretical basis for an investigation and what implications this has for the study of organizations.

Literature

David Buchanan & Andrzej Huczynski, Organizational Behaviour, Pearson (10th edition)

Additional literature: notes, cases, articles.

Teaching Method

The course includes lectures to support the student's own reading of the subject’s content. The purpose of the lectures is to create an overview of the various topics and to show how they are related to each other.

Workload

Scheduled classes:

30 hours lectures per semester.

Students’ expected workload:

Classroom hours (lectures): 30 hours.
Preparation and follow-up: 63 hours.
Exam preparation: 40 hours.
Exam: 2 hours.
Sum: 135 hours.

Examination regulations

Exam

Name

Exam

Timing

Exam: January.

Reexam: February.

Tests

Exam

Name

Exam

Form of examination

Written examination on premises

Censorship

Second examiner: None

Grading

7-point grading scale

Identification

Student Identification Card - Exam number

Language

English

Duration

2 hours written exam.

Length

Page limitation – 6 norm pages (one page 2.400 characters incl. spaces).

Examination aids

All exam aids allowed.
It is not allowed to communicate with others during the exam.

Assignment handover

Will be handed out in the examination room.

Assignment handin

Only digital submission via "Digital Exam"

ECTS value

Additional information

Examination form may be altered for the reexamination.

EKA

B220018402

External comment

NOTE - This course is identical with the former course(s)
83116301 / Campus Odense: 83116301 Organization (supplementing course)
B220018101 Introduction to Organization

Used examination attempts in the former identical course will be transferred.
Courses that are identical with former courses that are passed according to applied rules cannot be retaken.

Courses offered

Offer period	Offer type	Profile	Education	Semester

URL for Skemaplan

Sønderborg

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