2292 - Organisational Analysis
Course information
- Title
- Organisational Analysis
- Course number
- 2292.23
- Academic year
- 2024-2025
- ECTS
- 7.50
- Level
- Bachelor
- Faculties
- History and Social Sciences
- Educations
- BSc in Economics and Management
- Prerequisites
- Grammar-school education is a prerequisite. The course is developed in accordance to the Bachelor of Economics and Business Administration but the course is also suitable for social science students.
- Language of instruction
- Faroese
- Registration
- Students in a program are automatically enrolled. Students of a single subject, apply through the student affairs office lss@setur.fo
- Beginning date
- Monday, January 27, 2025
- End date
- Friday, May 30, 2025
Academic content
- Purpose
- The objective of the course is to provide the students with independent ability to read organization studies literature where the students should be able use central concepts, methods, and reasoning when analyzing organizations and organizational challenges/opportunities.
- Learning outcomes
- When the course is finished the student will be able to analyze how leaders, employees, and the environment experience, interpret, and interact in one or several organizations. The student must independently be able to: • Present and discuss theoretical perspectives on what an organization is and why organizations exist. • Analyze and discuss pros and cons regarding the resources and instruments use by organizations and organizational members. • Analyze how organizations are affected by the environment and how organization adapt in according to these surroundings. • Use relevant material from the curriculum to understand and explain internal and external challenges for organizations – also in relation to organizing. Hereby, the student will be able to provide advice on, and direction for, how these challenges should be controlled. • Conduct critical assessment of how and why theories and concepts are relevant in concrete situations (critical reflection).
- Content
- The course focus is on how organizations function. Students will be introduced to different organizational theories and concepts that enable the students to analyze and discuss what an organization is, how the organization functions, and what challenges/opportunities an organization has. Hereby, the course gives an introduction to and an understanding of how processes, structures, power, routines etc., function in organizational settings, which are intertwined with societal settings. The course´s foundation rests on three core topics: 1. How have the organizational theories developed, and why are organizations a part of our everyday life and society (going behind the concept of organization)? 2. Which resources are important input to organizations? 3. Which instruments are used/utilized in organizational relationships? Combined with the organizational theories the course gives the students insights on different methods when working on analyzing organizations.
- Learning and teaching approaches
- The theories and concepts from curriculum will be presented in lectures and concretely mobilized in the exercise sessions. In the exercise the students will discuss and work with cases.
Assessment
- Assessment method
- Oral examination based on written home assignment (10 pages), which is delineated on time and topics.
- Examination (internal/external)
- External
- Grading scale
- 7-scale
- Exam date/dates
- The submission date for the assignment is set at the 16th of May. The oral defense will be held in May 13th.
- Deadline for withdrawal from exam
- Monday, January 27, 2025
Academic responsibility and teachers
- Academic responsibility
- Herit Vivi Bentsdóttir Albinus
- Teachers
- Anna Maria Ellingsgaard