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Organizational Development (3 cr)

Code: IME22LE02-3005

General information


Enrollment

15.06.2025 - 19.10.2025

Timing

20.10.2025 - 31.12.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

3 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Faculty of Technology and Seafaring

Campus

Vasa, Wolffskavägen 33

Teaching languages

  • English

Teachers

  • Ray Pörn

Teacher in charge

Ray Pörn

Groups

  • IME25H-V
    Industrial Management and Engineering, 2025

Objective

The student widens his understanding of organization theory and its importance in today’s industrial environment. Furthermore, the student strengthens his insight concerning the importance of balancing business ideas, customer expectations and experiences to organizational structuring. The student understands individual/team behaviour in organizations and strengthens and establishes strategies in developing, growing and changing businesses. The students will develop decision making skills regarding the organizational mix between in-house processes versus subcontracting and outsourcing linked to value creation.

Content

Organization theory, trends and future. Different paradigms, strategies and structures of organizations. Rapid market changes, the slower organizational changes and the very slow individual changes. How to change organizations. Learning in organizations. The entrepreneurial spirit, Operational excellence and organizing for the future. About exits.

Materials

Literature:
To be informed later or please have a look at the course implementation

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Sufficient (1) and Satisfactory (2)
Participating in the contact lessons, returned tasks.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good (3) and Very good (4)
Active participating in the contact lessons, returned tasks with good outcomes.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent (5)
Very active participating in the contact lessons, returned tasks with excellent outcomes.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Evaluation:
Numerical for PASS from 1 to 5 and
0 for FAIL: No participating in the contact lessons, no returned tasks.

Qualifications

No prerequisities