1. SylabUZ
2. Faculty of Social Sciences
3. winter term 2020/2021
4. WNS - oferta ERASMUS / Sociology - First-cycle Erasmus programme
5. Sociology of Institutions and Organizations

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Sociology of Institutions and Organizations - course description

Aim of the course

The aim of the subject is providing students with complex knowledge of functioning social organizations. The extra aim is preparing students for implementing knowledge of organizations and peoples organizational behaviours in social life.

Prerequisites

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No special prerequisites

Scope

Lecture:

1. Organizations. Elements of organizations, relations, structures, basic processes
2. New institutionalism
3. Theory of organizations
4. Participation in organizations
5. Organizations and their environment
6. Types of organizations
7. Network of organizations

 

Classes:

1. Institutionalisation process
2. Social structure of organizations
3. Management of human resources
4. Processes of communication
5. Motivation in organization
6. Organizational culture.

Teaching methods

Lecture: lecture with discussion.

Class: class discussion. Small groups discussion. Multimedia learning process – using Power Point presentations, use of filmstrips, recordings etc. Open textbook study. Problem solving or case studies.

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description	Outcome symbols	Methods of verification	The class form

Assignment conditions

Class: Credit with grade on the basis of presentation and written papers. The class will be divided up into discussion/presentation groups. Students will organize and prepare oral presentations and demonstrations to the class explaining assigned chapters from the texts. Each student is likely to make one presentation during the semester.

Lecture: written examination.

Final grade will be the average of class and exam credit.

Recommended reading

1.         Handel M. J. (editor) “Sociology of Organizations: “Classic, Contemporary and Critical Readings”, Publisher: Sage Publications, California, 2003.

2.         Castels M., Elgar E., “The Network Society: A Cross-Cultural Perspective”, Publisher: Cheltenham, Northampton, 2004.

3.         Powell W., DiMaggio P. J. “The New Institutionalism and Organizational Analysis”, Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Further reading

None

Notes

the subject can be run every semester, in case there is not enough persons to make a group there will be individual class run during instructor hours.

Modified by dr Jarosław Wagner (last modification: 08-07-2020 17:37)