Introduction to Organization

Study Board of Business Economics

Teaching language: English
EKA: B220018102
Censorship: Second examiner: None
Grading: 7-point grading scale
Offered in: Odense
Offered in: Autumn
Level: Bachelor

Course ID: B220018101
ECTS value: 5

Date of Approval: 20-03-2018


Duration: 1 semester

Course ID

B220018101

Course Title

Introduction to Organization

Teaching language

English

ECTS value

5

Responsible study board

Study Board of Business Economics

Date of Approval

20-03-2018

Course Responsible

Name Email Department
Ingo Winkler inw@sam.sdu.dk

Offered in

Odense

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. 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:

•Organizational structure
•Organizational design
•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:

•Describe organizations and their conduct by means of an appropriate selection of theories and models,
•Reflect critically on the validity of these concepts, theories and models,
•Apply theories and models to independently analyse and assess whether the organization is able to achieve its goals.

Literature

For example:
•Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge, Timothy T. Campbell (2017) Organizational Behaviour, Pearson (2nd edition)
•Knud Sinding & Christian Waldstrøm, Organisational Behaviour, Mcgraw-Hill Education Ltd. (latest edition)
•David Buchanan & Andrzej Huczynski, Organizational Behaviour, Pearson (latest 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: 83 hours.
•Exam preparation: 20 hours.
•Exam: 2 hours.
•Sum: 135 hours.

Examination regulations

Exam

Name

Exam

Timing

Exam: January.
Reexam: February.

The form of examination may be changed at reexam.

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 – 4 to 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 SDU-assignment in the course page in Blackboard.

ECTS value

5

Additional information

The exam is held at the university. The examination is held using the students own PC.
Internet access: Required.

EKA

B220018102

External comment

NOTE - This course is identical with the former course 83116301 / Campus Odense: 83116301 Organization (supplementing course).
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.

The student is automatically registered for the first examination attempt when the student is registered for a course or course element with which one or more examinations are associated. Withdrawal of registration is not possible, and students who fail to participate in an examination have used one examination attempt, unless the University has made an exemption due to special circumstances. 
If a student does not meet the established university prerequisites for taking the exam, he or she has used one examination attempt, unless the University has made an exemption due to special circumstances.

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