Sociology of Organizations and Work
0
2024-2025
01008775
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
English
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Compulsory
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Once this is an optional course unit for different graduations, it is recommended to the students a transposition to the field of sociology of the main topics concerning the life of organisations and the way labour is being structured on it.
Teaching Methods
This course unit aims to encourage the active participation of students in classes. Therefore, the evaluation combines the involvement of students in classes, the performing of small written essays and answers with consultation (in a total of 8 values), and a final exam with no consultation (12 values):
Who will not opt for mixed assessment will be evaluated through a final exam of 20 values
Learning Outcomes
Overall objectives
Understanding the key role of social, cultural, political and symbolic dimensions of organizations.
Specific objectives
- Capturing the importance of individual and group dynamics;
- Understand the role of people in organizations as "resources" and the factors surrounding the formation of identities and motivations at work;
- Identify power relations (formal and informal);
- To characterize the processes of negotiation and conflict;
- Locate the role and perspectives of organizational culture;
- Identify mechanisms of change
Generic competencies
Identification and characterization of general issues related to the sociology of organizations
Specific competencies
- Instrumental: cognitive (reading and learning), methodological (combination of methodological tools and forms of assessment), language (oral and written summary of topics on the program);
- Interpersonal: the participation (individual and /or group) in teaching sessions is valued
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1. The organization, the individual and the group. 2. The identity, people and work at the organizations. 3. The actor and the system: power relations and strategic analysis. 4. Conflict, negotiation vis-à-vis employer and trade union organisations. 5. The role of culture in organizations. 6. Leadership and organizational development.
Assessment Methods
Continuous Assessment
Presentations in the classroom, written synthesis, answers in consultations tests : 40.0%
Final Exam: 60.0%
Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%
Bibliography
BERNOUX, Philippe — A sociologia das organizações. Porto : Rés, [1998 ?]. [BP 65.01 BER]
BERNOUX, Philippe — Sociologie du changement dans les entreprises et les organisations. Paris : Editions du Seuil, 2004. [BP 65.01 BER]
BILHIM, João Abreu de Faria — Teoria organizacional : estruturas e pessoas. 4ª ed. rev. e act.. Lisboa : ISCSP, 2005. [BP 65.01 BIL]
FERREIRA, J. M. Carvalho ; NEVES, José ; CAETANO, António Alves - Manual de psicossociologia das organizações. Lisboa : Escolar Editora, 2011. [BP 65.01 FER]
FILLEAU, Marie-Georges ; MARQUES-RIPOULL, Clotilde— Teorias da organização e da empresa : das correntes fundadoras às práticas actuais. Oeiras : Celta Editora, 2002. [BP 65.01 FIL]
HOFSTEDE, Geert — Culturas e organizações : compreender a nossa programação mental. Lisboa : Edições Sílabo, 1997. [BP 316.7 HOF]
VELOSO, Luísa — Empresas, identidades e processos de identificação. Porto : Editora da Universidade do Porto, 2007. [BP 334.7 VEL]