Programme

The course contemplates three main parts.
The first one provides knowledge of historical, theoretical and methodological models for the transition from Taylor-Fordist type of organizational and bureaucratic approach “cognitive”, and the analysis of the interconnections of a cultural and management relating to the affirmation of the company network and the Total Quality Management.
The second part aims to develop skills and expertise in the analysis of the processes of evolution of organizational models, on the development of organizational learning, in view of intertwining of individual and collective dynamics in the functioning of organizations and the necessary integration between the strategic variables: people, processes, technologies and facilities.
The last one has to objective to promote a critical analysis of the evolution of organizational models in public administration, on the transformation of the bureaucratic model and the success of the telocratic model of new public management, based on analysis of business case studies and testimonials.

Core Documentation

COCOZZA A., Organizzazioni. Culture, modelli, governance, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2014.
COCOZZA A., Il sistema scuola. Autonomia, sviluppo e responsabilità nel lifewide learning, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2012.

Type of delivery of the course

Together with the lectures, the following activities are proposed: workshops, teamwork, cases analysis, in face-to-face and online way.

Type of evaluation

The learning evaluation takes place through a final oral exam, during which these issues are examined in depth: - the fundamental concepts of the theoretical reference framework proposed during the course, illustrated also in the adopted texts; - the acquired skills to analyze and compare policies related to the topics of organization, training and skills development, negotiation and regulation of employment relationships in the PAs.

Programme

The main topics are:
The theoretical and operational model of organizational learning in Argyris and Schön
The complexity and environmental instability factors and the need of change in organizations (introduction to the change management)
The incentives and resistances to change within an organization
Organizational learning and competences development: the Boyatzis model
Organizational learning as a key to oversee change and innovation: the March model
Explicit knowledge, tacit knowledge and knowledge management (introduction to knowledge management ): from Polanyi to Nonaka
Reflexive skills as a key to a balanced development of competences in organizations
Presentation of a case study of organizational learning tools and methods / Planning and implementation of the project of organizational learning in a highly innovative enterprise

Core Documentation

Argyris, C. & Schon, D.A. (1998). Apprendimento organizzativo. Teoria, metodo e pratiche. Milano: Guerini e Associati.

Type of delivery of the course

Topics will be introduced by the teacher and discussed by participants through team works and individual study, during face-to-face lessons. Workshops will be proposed in online way on the platform FORMONLINE. In the event of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions governing the methods of carrying out teaching activities and student evaluation will be implemented. In particular, the following methods will be applied: the lessons will take place on the TEAMS platform and will be accompanied by workshops proposed on FORMONLINE.

Type of evaluation

Students' learning will be assessed on the basis of knowledge acquired thanks to individual study and the in-depth analysis of the text proposed, and of competences acquired thanks to the team work on the case study. In the event of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions governing the methods of carrying out teaching activities and student evaluation will be implemented.

Programme

Given the complexity of contemporary organizational contexts, increasingly characterized by network structures with high organizational and technological complexity, the advanced Sociology of Organizations module intends to dwell in particular on the thrusts introduced by the whirling digital innovation process.
In continuity with the course of Sociology of the organization (6 - CFU Prof. Cocozza), which presents the theoretical frame of reference of the sociological organizational disciplines and the new organizational models that tend to increasingly recognize the person as a strategic lever of development, the advanced module focuses in particular on the complicated relationship between organization, technological transformations and society with the intent to understand the implications for organizations and for work.
The advanced module looks at organizations and works in the information and knowledge society which stands out, as suggested by Castells, for its being: informational, global and reticular.
The module aims to offer students in addition to the necessary theoretical framework of reference also the possibility of measuring themselves with a working methodology that increasingly requires subjects to be active and decisive carriers of conditions of tumultuous change and uncertainty that characterizes modern organizations in the global scenario. For this reason the laboratory privileges the active and dialogical methodology where the students themselves become protagonists of the "discovery" and the sharing of the acquired knowledge; useful methodology to develop communicative, relational and reflexive competences, today fundamental for living and working in a complex society.
The course, therefore, includes in-depth thematic analyzes through individual and/or group project work.

GOALS
following educational objectives:
• Learn to self-train concerning the identified learning objectives;
• recognize the importance of information and knowledge as a strategic lever of innovation for the organization;
• recognize the most current issues related to the development of knowledge organizations in the global context;
• understand the implications of technological change for organizations, work and society;
• understand how the digital revolution is transforming the socio-economic system also about future scenarios;
• understand organizational transformations also in light of the recent economic crises.

At the end of the course, the student who has successfully followed the study and the proposed activities will be able to:
• select, analyze, process, organize and share information and knowledge through remote collaboration environments
• organize an individual study
• organize and effectively communicate the results of his observations

Core Documentation

Study materials
1 book of your choice for the final summary from:

Gallino L., I denaro, il debito e la doppia crisi, Einaudi, 2015
Gallino L, Tecnologia e democrazia, Eibaudi, 2007
Gallino L., Limpresa irresponsabile, Einaudi, 2005
Latouche S., L’invenzione dell’economia, Bollati
Becchetti L., La felicità sostenibile, Saggine, 2005
Stark D., The sense of dissonance, Pricenton, 2011
Floridi L. La Quarta rivoluzione. Come l’infosfera sta trasformando il mondo, Cortina, 2017
Greenfield, Tecnologie radicali. Il progetto della vita quotidiana, Einaudi, 2017
Carol Lee Graham, The Economics of Happiness
Ferrarotti F., Il capitalismo, Newton & Compton, 1999

Type of delivery of the course

The methodology adopted: Research-Based Learning The laboratory is based on a research path that sees the students as active protagonists through individual works alternated with moments of presentation, reflection and collaboration in groups.

Type of evaluation

Written test for attending and non-attending students with a critical summary of one of the texts chosen from those proposed Oral interview on the course contents. PROGRESSIVE EVALUATION Thematic in-depth courses are chosen by the student to be presented on the basis of the bibliographic indications provided. The ongoing assessment includes the presentation of one's work in class