Face-to-face , first term, 30 hours of theory.

First term
Tuesday from 08:30 to 10:30 at 43 Botanique 3

The course is taught in French.

Students will take over specific tools of thought to apprehend the organisations and their operation. The organisations' life is characterized by uncertain and sometimes contradictory complex situations. To consider this complexity, it is important to mobilize multiple perspectives. Students will therefore be taught to use these approaches and be made aware of the presuppositions and the values underlying each of them. At the end of this course, students will also be capable of looking critically at the contributions and the limits of the different approaches presented.

Change having become a structural component of organisations' operation, the course will also get students to develop a reflection on the notions of change and conduct of change.

Additionally, students will be capable of understanding the organisations' contemporary evolutions in light of the challenges they are facing in order to interpret the contemporary psychological pathologies developed in these organisations.

For the Bachelor in Information and Communication :

For the Bachelor : Business Engineering :

For the Bachelor in Economics and Management :

For the Bachelor in Political Sciences: General :

For the Bachelor in Sociology and Anthropology :

None

The course will present the big schools of thought in the area of organisations since the founders (Taylor, Ford, Fayol, Weber, Mayo) until the most recent perspectives (postmodern approaches, freedom-form company, lean management, agile company).

It will address a series of central concepts in the theory of organisations: the organisation and its environment, the social structure of organisations, the organisational culture, leadership, power, the decision-making processes, the control processes, and conflicts.

The questions of individual, organisational, and group identity will also be addressed. The situations of work will be analysed through the psychodynamic of work's angle.

Finally, the processes of change within the organisations will also be studied:
- the models of change;
- the management of planned change;
- the management of resistances to change; the emerging change and the learning organisation.

On an educational level, the course will consist of lectures. It relies on a pedagogy of discovering concepts through studies of cases analysed by the student and the professor. Analyses of texts read at home will also be discussed in class and will be the object of a distance formative assessment.
A support class will be offered to students to accompany them in the realisation of this analysis.

The assessment is in two parts. The first part is an analysis of cases in small groups and counts for five points out of twenty. The second part is a written exam covering everything seen in class. This part consists of three open-ended questions, each for five points out of twenty.

ANACT, l'entreprise libérée, Synthèse documentaire. Mission Veille et Management. Management de l'Information, septembre 2015
Autissier, D., Moutot, J.M. (2010). Méthode de conduite du changement: diagnostic, accompagnement, pilotage. Paris, Dunod.
Bareil, C. (2004). La résistance au changement: synthèse et critique des écrits, Centre d'études en transformation des organisations, Cahier n° 04-10 - Août 2004.
Collerette, P. et Schneider, R. (2004). Le pilotage du changement: une approche stratégique et pratique. Presses de l'Université du Québec.
Foudriat, M. (2007). Sociologie des organisations. Paris : Pearson Education.
Gérard A. (2017). Le patron qui ne voulait plus être chef. Flammarion.
Getz, I et Carney, B. (2013). Liberté et cie. Quand la liberté des salarié fait le bonheur des entreprises,Flammarion.
Hatch, M. J. (2000). Théorie des organisations : de l'intérêt de perspectives multiples. De Boeck Université, Bruxelles.
Johnson, G., Scholes, K., Whittington, R., Fréry, F. (2008). Stratégique. Pearson Education France.
Hatch, M. J., & Cunliffe, A. L. (2009). Théorie des organisations: de l'intérêt de perspectives multiples. De Boeck Supérieur.
Kets de Vries, M. (2002). Les mystères du leadership. Pearson Education France, Paris.
Misset, S. (2017). Introduction à la sociologie des organisations, Armand Colin, Paris.
Morgan, G. (1999). Images de l'organisation. Québec : Presses de l'Université Laval.
Prax, J.Y (2012). Le manuel du knowledge management : mettre en réseau les hommes et les savoirs pour créer de la valeur. Dunod, Paris.