363-0301-00L Work Design and Organizational Change
Semester | Herbstsemester 2016 |
Dozierende | G. Grote |
Periodizität | jährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung |
Lehrsprache | Englisch |
Lehrveranstaltungen
Nummer | Titel | Umfang | Dozierende | ||||||||||
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363-0301-00 G | Work Design and Organizational Change | 2 Std. |
| G. Grote |
Katalogdaten
Kurzbeschreibung | Good work design is crucial for individual and company effectiveness and a core element to be considered in organizational change. Meaning of work, organization-technology interaction, and uncertainty management are discussed with respect to work design and sustainable organizational change. As course project, students learn and apply a method for analyzing and designing work in business settings. |
Lernziel | - Know effects of work design on competence, motivation, and well-being - Understand links between design of individual jobs and work processes - Know basic processes involved in systematic organizational change - Understand the interaction between organization and technology and its impact on organizational change - Understand relevance of work design for company performance and strategy - Know and apply methods for analyzing and designing work |
Inhalt | - Work design: From Adam Smith to job crafting - Effects of work design on performance and well-being - Approaches to analyzing and designing work - Modes of organizational change and change methods - Balancing stability and flexibility in organizations as design criterium - The organization-technology interaction and its impact on work design and organizational change - Example Flexible working arrangements - Strategic choices for work design |
Literatur | A list of required readings will be provided at the beginning of the course. |
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | The course includes the completion of a course project to be conducted in groups of four students. The project entails applying a particular method for analyzing and designing work processes and is carried out by means of interviews and observations in companies chosen by the students. |
Leistungskontrolle
Information zur Leistungskontrolle (gültig bis die Lerneinheit neu gelesen wird) | |
Leistungskontrolle als Semesterkurs | |
ECTS Kreditpunkte | 3 KP |
Prüfende | G. Grote |
Form | benotete Semesterleistung |
Prüfungssprache | Englisch |
Repetition | Repetition nur nach erneuter Belegung der Lerneinheit möglich. |
Lernmaterialien
Hauptlink | MOODLE |
Es werden nur die öffentlichen Lernmaterialien aufgeführt. |
Gruppen
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Einschränkungen
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