Evolving Organisations (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Schedule

Classes are held in Mondays 17.40 – 20.30 in Zoom

29 March
• Getting to know fellow learners
• Aims of the course and working methods
• Job crafting (team work)
• Agency at work (survey, individual reflection, class discussion)

12 April
• Future of work (group work and class discussions based on learning assignments)

19 April
Human and social capital in organisations (teacher trainee: Anastasia Kortshinskaja)
• Universal questions of organizsng (team work based on pre-reading)

26 April
• Tensions and paradoxes in organisations (group work, case study)

3 May
• Self-managing organisations
• Experiences of organizational development

10 May
• Agile approaches to organisational development (based on pre-readings)
• Diagnostic approaches to organisational development

17 May
• Dialogic methods in organisational development
• Ethics for organisational development
• Instructions for the final assignment

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

Depending on the implementation, learning takes place in contact lessons, as independent studies, teamwork and/or online-studies. The course includes the assessment of one’s own learning.

Recognition of prior learning (RPL)
If students have acquired the required competence in previous work tasks, recreational activities or on another course, they can show their competence via a demonstration. The demonstration must be agreed with the course teacher. More information and instructions for recognising and validating prior learning (RPL) are available at https://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/recognition-learning Look at "Instructions to students (master)"

Intro

This course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of work. You will learn various approaches to organisational development and how to apply them ethically. You will also explore new ways of organising and learn to drive positive change in your workplace

Materials

Readings for the first learning assignment
Fast expert team (2020) Remote work in Finland during the covid-19
Lane, M. and A. Saint-Martin (2021), "The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the labour market: What do we know so far?", OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, No. 256, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/7c895724-en.
McKinsey (2021) The Future of work after COVID-19
MIT Technology Review (2020) Covid-19 and the Workforce
World Economic Forum (2020) The Future of Jobs Report 2020

Readings for the second learning assignment
Lewis, M. W. (2014). Paradoxical Leadership to Enable Strategic Agility. California Management Review, 56(3), pp. 58-77
Smith, W. K., Lewis, M. W., & Tushman, M. L. (2016). Both/and” leadership. Harvard Business Review, 94(5), 62-70.

Readings to prepare for the classes
Gilpin, Y. (2013). Practicing in the grey area between dialogic and diagnostic organization development. Advances in Dialogic OD, 45(1
Martela, F. (2019) What makes self-managing organizations novel? Journal of Organization Design 8, 23 (2019).
Rigby, D. K., Sutherland, J., & Takeuchi, H. (2016). Embracing agile. Harvard Business Review, 94(5), 40-50.
Rigby, D. K., Sutherland, J., & Noble, A. (2018). Agile at scale. Harvard Business Review, 96(3), 88-96.

Readings and other hints for the final assignment will be given in course Moodle

Teaching methods and instruction

The contact hours of this evening class include team work, class discussions, a case study, short lectures, a visiting lecture and different type of other active learning tasks which aim at reflecting students' past and current experiences with work practices and organisations. Students will demonstrate their learning with do two shorter assignments during the course and with a final assignment to be submitted two weeks after the course ends. The learning methods have been designed to foster the following meta competences: complex problem solving, critical thinking, people management, coordinating with others and cognitive flexibility.

Working life connections

Course themes relate to students’ work and their organisations

Exam dates and re-exam possibilities

No examination

Internationality

International student body

Completion alternatives

Students requesting for RPL (recognition of prior learning) should send applications by 1 March, 2021

Learning assignments

First learning assignment (20 points, due on 11 April)
A mind-map on the future of work

Second learning assignment (20 points, first part due 18 April, second part due 25 April)
First part: Moodle discussion thread start on paradox thinking
Second part: Commenting three fellow’s students discussion threads

Final assignment (60 points, first part due 17 May, second part due on 31 May)
First part: Description of a dialogic organizational development method
Second part: Comparison and reflection of two different organizational development methods

Assessment methods

Assessment methods

Passed courses are assessed on a scale of 1 to 5. The assessment criteria is presented for grades 1, 3 and 5.

Grade 1
The student is able to recognize some trends affecting the future of work and reflect her/his own work and role against the changes. S/he recognises the elements of organisational design and is able to explain some tensions in organisations. The student recognises different organisational concepts and ways to organise. S/he can define some approaches to organisational development and plan how to apply them in a development plan. S/he writes professional text.

Grade 3
In addition to competences described in grade 1, s/he is able to identify ways how to develop agency at work. S/he can compare different organisational designs and their elements. S/he is able to distinguish different kinds of tensions and their consequences in organisations and explain how they emerge. S/he can select and compare different approach for organisational development and take multiple perspectives into account when planning how to apply them in practice. S/he recognises and reflects ethical questions related to change and development work. The level of student’s academic writing is mostly correct.

Grade 5
In addition to competences in grade 1 and 3, the student can distinguish multiple perspectives affecting the future of work and able to evaluate which factors and trends will affect her/his own job and career. The student is able to critically assess the factors that affect her/his own work, organisational design and organisational development from different perspectives. This is demonstrated in reports comparing, justifying and using of different theoretical frameworks. The level of student’s academic writing is correct.




Grading

90 – 100 points, grade 5
80 – 89 points, grade 4
70 – 79 points, grade 3
60 – 69 points, grade 2
50 – 59 points, grade 1

Students submitting their assignments later than 31 May will lose 1 points/day. Late assignments will not be graded in summer. Maximum penalty, however, is 50 points.