MAN-MOD008
Intervention in Organisations
Course infoSchedule
Course moduleMAN-MOD008
Credits (ECTS)6
CategoryMA (Master)
Language of instructionEnglish
Offered byRadboud University; Nijmegen School of Management; Master Business Administration;
Lecturer(s)
Lecturer		dr. L.J.G. Vermeerbergen
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Examiner		dr. D.J. Vriens
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Lecturer		dr. D.J. Vriens
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Coordinator		dr. D.J. Vriens
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Contactperson for the course		dr. D.J. Vriens
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Academic year2023
Period
2  (06/11/2023 to 28/01/2024)
Starting block
2
Course mode
full-time
Remarks-
Registration using OSIRISYes
Course open to students from other facultiesYes
Pre-registrationNo
Waiting listNo
Placement procedure-
Aims

Knowledge-related objectives

  • Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

  • distinguish relevant dimensions of intervention in organisations

  • make meaningful connections between these dimensions

Application-related objectives

  • students learn to apply the conceptual framework to a practical, structure-related business problem

Reflection-related objectives

  • students learn to critically read and analyse academic texts in which aspects and elements of interventions are explicitly discussed

  • they learn to relate these texts to the conceptual framework that is central to the course.
Content
The course Interventions in Organisations is designed to familiarise students with a conceptual framework that can be used to plan, control, evaluate and learn from interventions in organisational structures. To this end, the course introduces students to (1) problems related to interventions in organisations, (2) a conceptual framework consisting of three related dimensions that should be taken into account in order to deal with these problems, and (3) scientific literature related to both interventions and the three dimensions.
The three dimensions contained in the conceptual framework are:
  1. the functional dimension comprising the following activities: diagnosis, design, implementation and evaluation of a change of the organization's infrastructure
  2. the social dimension, which concerns the acceptance and integration of the change of the infrastructure by the social system in and for which the intervention is to take place
  3. the infrastructural dimension involving instruments and techniques that are available for meeting the objectives specified in the functional and social dimensions
The course elaborates this basic three-dimensional conceptual framework by explaining what each of the dimensions entails, how the dimensions are related to each other, and how the dimensions can be used for the purpose of interventions in the structure of organisations. Further, it discusses applying it to a business case, and relating it to scientific literature on organisational change.
Level

Presumed foreknowledge
BA in Business AdministrationSee general information about the Master's programme in OD&D.
Test information
Written exam + assignments. Assignments need to be made in order to participate in the final exam. When graded sufficient, the assignments do not have to be made again the year after, when the student does not complete the course in one year.
Specifics

Level
Ma 1

Instructional modes
Lecture

Working group

Tests
Exam
Test weight1
OpportunitiesBlock 2, Block 3