The course aims to provide a theoretical and methodological framework on organizational change and people management.
In particular, the course aims to develop organizational knowledge in students by helping to increase the following skills:
• to know how to identify the broad articulation of issues concerning organizational change and the various levels in which it is articulated (change of work contents, tools, roles and relationships between roles; changes in business and organizational units structures, introduction of systems information and new information technologies, change in intra-organizational relationships, change of boundaries and inter-organizational relationships);
• being able to recognize the peculiarities of the main organizational problems and the alternatives of solutions concretely applied by firms;
• being able to distinguish organizational problems from marketing, finance, strategy, etc. problems
• to encourage the learning of organizational theories;
• to develop the ability in using organizational theories to interpret and explain the organizational transformations described in the cases studies analyzed.
The course also aims to develop students’ behavioral skills and abilities. In particular, the course aims to promote the students’ ability to:
• having a creative attitude in identifying actions and decisions shared with others (team working abilities)
• express their own ideas in a clear and understandable way (public speaking)
• promote their own ideas and needs also taking into consideration
the ideas and needs of others (knowing how to compare oneself with others)
• being able to accept the point of view of the other (knowing how to relate with others)