Coursecode: wm0412 (before dd12)
Coursename: A sociological perspective on workorganizations

DUT creditpoints: 2
ECTS creditpoints: 3

Faculty of Technology and Society

Lecturer(s): Andriessen, prof.dr. J.H.T.H., Ravesteijn, drs. W.

Tel.: 015-2784910

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Organizational processes, responsibility of engineers, quality of work, international competition, sociology, decision making

Courseyear: 3
Semester: 2/2/0/0
Hours p/w: 2
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Assessment: Written
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In this course central issues concerning work, enterprise and economic order are presented from a sociological perspective. The course has the following objectives:

  • Providing knowledge of and insight in the role and position students will have in companies or in governmental, particularly in relation to the organizational and societal context of their profession.

  • Increasing their skill in determining and using the discretionary space for decision making concerning work and organization.

Processes of work and organization are discussed from the macro- meso and microlevel, i.e. in relation to e.g. quality of work, decision making and organizational design and (inter)national socio-economic developments.

Subjects such as the following will be discussed:

Professionalization and responsibility of the engineer, changes in work and organization, choices concerning new technologies, organizational structures, decision making and consultation, international competitive relations, automatization, telematics and work.

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