Objectives and competences

Student will: • understand contemporary theories of organizations in the digital era, • acquire knowledge of legalities of individual models and approaches of the development of an organization and management, • understand differences between governance and management, • learn and possess ideas in the field of methodology of organizational change and • acquire knowledge in the field of mastering organizational conflicts.

Content (Syllabus outline)

Characteristics of the digital era and the development of new organizational and managerial theories. • Concepts of companies' business models in the digital age. • Contemporary forms and models of organizations and organizing with a stress on the representation of empirical efficiency and effectiveness of individual forms and models. • Governance and management concepts. • Management schools. • Contemporary theory of organizational and management development in the digital era. • Methodology of the changing of an organization and organizing (the diagnosis of an organization, the formation of a performed concept, the formation of a new model, mastering the process of implementation and evaluation).

Learning and teaching methods

• Lecture and directed discussion. • Presentation of examples and their analysis and forming suggestions for improvements. • Oriented independent empirical research of organizational problems. • Tutorial.

Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding

Knowledge and understanding: At the end of the course students will be able to: • understanding regularities in the development of an organization and management, • know characteristics of individual models and approaches of organizational and management development, • gain knowledge in the field of organizational analysis and formation of organizational and management models and • understand the dynamics of organizational conflicts and • Understand differences between governance and management.

Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes

Readings

1. Kovač, J., Mühlbacher, J., & Kodydek, G. (2012). Uvod v management sprememb (str. 108). Moderna organizacija v okviru Fakultete za organizacijske vede. 2. Rozman, R., Mihelčič, M., & Kovač, J. (2011). Sodobne teorije organizacije (1. natis, str. IX, 255). Ekonomska fakulteta. 3. Rouleau, L. (2022). Organization theories in the making: exploring the leading-edge perspectives (2nd impression, str. VIII, 214). Oxford University Press.

Prerequisits

• No prerequisites.