Minimum college entrance requirements
The course will provide an introduction to how organisations function, and how human beings influence on and are influenced on by organisations they work and act in. This is done by giving students basic theoretical knowledge about, and outline over, important organisation theories and subjects within organisation psychology, as well as practical knowledge of basic structures and proscesses in and among organisations that influence on and regulate organisation behavior.
- History and development
- Organisation perspectives
- Organisation structure
- Organisation - forms and design
- Organisation culture
- The organisation and its environments
- Influence and power - harmony and conflict
- Basic processes and obcectives, decision making, information and communication
- Management and management theories
- Intellectual capacity
- Human relations - cognitive and social processes
- Motivation
- Learning on individual- and organisational level
Lectures and group exercises
The students do their exercises in groups. Each group has to complete 8 written exercises. These exercises are to be handed in at the end of the semester. Each group will present one af these exercises in plenary during the semester.
One of the written exercises for each group is selected to be evaluated. The members of a group will in this way get the same remark. In addition the students attend a 3-hour written exam at the end of the semester. The group exercise and the the individual test will count for 50% each of the grade.
External candidates are evaluated on the basis of a 3 hours written exam at the end of the semester.
