Module 4

MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION

Rene Bouwen (week 29 March - 2 April)

Pilar Pineda (week of 5 April - 9 April)

Aim and Concept:

The focus in this course will be on:

'understanding organizing processes',
'assessing organizational internal and external contexts'
'introduction in theory and intervention methodology for organization change and innovation'
'organizational learning and learning networks'

The approach will be experientially based, using simulations, exercices, and role-plays to introduce the main concepts and to connect them to context-understanding and personal experience.

Overview:

Monday, March 29:

Morning: Reading and Assessing Organizing Forms: images of organizing, diagnostic models, organizational structure.

-Discovering images
-Configurations and forces
-Context assessment

Garreth Morgan (1986) Images of Organizations. Sage. Chap 1

Henry Mintzberg (1991) The Effective Organization: Forms and Forces. Sloan Man Rev. Winter, p. 54-67.

Afternoon: Organizational Structuring; emphasis on professional bureaucracies

-continuing: configurations following Mintzberg
-professionals and new organizing forms: networks, virtual organization.

Tuesday, March 30:

Morning: Internal Dynamic Processes: Culture, Leadership

-Concepts
-Role Plays and experiential assessment
-Instruments for measurement

Decock, Bouwen and Dewitte (1988) VOKIPO, An Instrument to measure organizational culture and climate.

Afternoon: Organizational Learning and Communication.

Bouwen, R & R. Fry (1991) Organizational Innovation and Learning. Four Patterns of Dialogue between Dominant Logic and New Logic. Int. Studies of Man. & Org., 21, 37-51.

Senge, Peter (1990) The Leader's New Work: Building a Learning Organization. Sloan Man. Rev., Fall, p. 76-95.

Wednesday, March 31: Fieldtrip

Case study visit concerning organizational change and learning project.

To be organized by Montpellier Staff.

Thursday, April 1:

Morning: Simulation on Organizational Change

Experience and discussion.

Afternoon: Organizational Change and Development.

-Principles
-Simulation
-Action Theory Building

Bouwen, R. (1993) Inquiry and Intervention: a learning methodology from a social constructionist viewpoint.

Cooperrider, D. (1987) Appreciative Inquiry in Organizational Life. In: Research in Organizational change and development. Vol 1, 129-169.

Friday, April 10: Study Groups and tutorial sessions

Basic and required readings:

Decock, Bouwen & Dewitte (1988) VOKIPO: An Instrument to measure organizational culture and climate.

Bouwen, R & R. Fry (1991) Organizational Innovation and Learning. Four Patterns of dialogue between dominant logic and new logic. Intern. Studies of Man. & Org.,21, 37-51.

Bouwen, R. (1993) Inquiry and Intervention: a learning methodology from a social constructionist viewpoint.

Additional and Optional bibliography:

Argyris, Chr. & Schön, D. (1978) Organizational Learning: A Theory of Action Perspective. Reading, Mass., Addison Wesley.

Cooperrider, D. (1987) Appreciative Inquiry in Organizational Life. In: Research in Organizational Change and Development. Vol.1, 129-169.

Gergen, K. (1994) Realities and Relationships. Soundings in Social Constructionism. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.

Kolb, D., Osland, J. & Rubin, I. (1995) The Organizational Behavior Reader. (6th edition) Englewood Cliffs, NJ., Prentice Hall. (Related book of exercises by same authors: Organizational Behavior: An Experiential Approach to Organizational Behavior.)

Mintzberg, H. (1979) The Structuring of Organizations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ., Prentice Hall.

Mintzberg, H. (1991) The effective organization: forms to forces. Sloan Man. Rev. Winter, 54-67.

Morgan, G. (1986) Images of Organizations. Beverley Hills, Cal., Sage.Prentice Hall inc., New Jersey, 365p.

Senge, P. (1990) The Fifth Discipline. The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. New York, Doubleday Currency.

Senge, P. (1991) The leader's new work: Building a Learning Organization. Sloan Man. Rev., Fall, 76-95.

Schein, E. (1985) Organizational Culture and Leadership. San Francisco, Jossey Bass.

Weick, K. (1979) The Social Psychology of Organizing. (2nd edition) Reading, Mass;, Addison-Wesley.

Weick, K. (1995) Sense Making in Organizations. London, Sage.

Selected Readings:

1. Mintzberg, H., The Effective Organization: Forces and Forms.

2. Bouwen, R. & Fry, R., Organizational Innovation and Learning.

3. Bouwen, R., Inquiry and Intervention for Development in Change and Innovation Contexts.

4. Srivastva, S., Organizational Analysis through Group Processes: A Theoretical Perspective for Organizational Development.

5. Senge, P., The leader's new Work: Building Learning Organizations.

The second part of the module is to introduce the students to the field of In-Company Training, in order to analyze its implications and to give them strategies for effective planning of In-Company Training.

The approach of the module will be experientially based, using lectures to introduce the basic concepts, exercises, group-work techniques, discussions and case-studies.

Monday, April 5: Easter holiday.

Tuesday, April 6.

Morning: Course: The history of Vocational Training by Pierre Hébrard

Afternoon: Course New Trends of in-company Training (part 1) by Pilar Pineda.

Wednesday, April 7.

Field visit to a Training Department (public or private company) To be organized by Montpellier staff.

Thursday, April 8.

Morning: Course New Trends of In-company Training (part 2) by Pilar Pineda.

Afternoon: Case study on Evaluation of Training by Pilar Pineda

Friday, April 9:

Study groups and tutorial sessions.

READINGS:

CRAIG,R (1987) Training and development handbook. McGraw Hill.

New York.

EDWARDS & Others (1983) Manpower Planning. Wiley & Sons.

London

GOLDSTEIN, I. L. (1986) Training In Organizations, Brooks-Cole.

California

HARRISON (1988) Training and Development, Institute of Personnel

Management, London

KENNEY-REID (1991) Training Interventions, IPM, London.

KROEHNFRT, G. (1995) Basic training for trainers, McGraw-Hill.

Australia.

LAIRD, D. (1985) Approaches to Training & Development, Addison Wesley, New York.

MILNE, D. - NOONE, S. (1996) Teaching and training for nonteachers, BPS Books, Surrey.

MUNSON, L. (1989) How to conduct training seminars, McGraw-Hill.

New York.

PHILLIPS, J,J, (1990) Training evaluation and measurement methods, Kogan Page, London.

PINEDA, P. (1994) La formación a l’empresa: planificación y avaluación, CEAC, Barcelona.

PINEDA, P. (1995) Auditoria de la Formación en la Empresa, Edicións GestiU 2000, Barcelona

PINEDA, P. - AMAT, O. (1996) Aprendre a ensenyar, Servei de Publicacions de la UAB - Edicions GestiU 2000, Barcelona

WEXEY,K.-LATHAM,G. (1991) Developing and Training Human Resources in Organizations, Harper-Collins, USA.