32525 - Joint Intensive Learning Unit (Winter School) II

Learning outcomes

This teaching activity is reserved to students of the Master Mundus WOP- Program. It is under the responsibility of Prof. Salvatore Zappala'.

At the end of the master programme, the student, as a future professional, needs to be able to integrate research and practice. The development of his/her professional competencies will be in a large part related to this ability to integrate research and practice. By this we refer to:

- be able to diagnose the research dimensions of some prob­lems posed by persons, groups and or­ganizations in different work settings.

- deal with practical problems in relation to the criteria of the development of scientific knowledge (hypothesis, test, proof,…)

- integrate theoretical and methodological research results all along the diagnosis and the solving of practical problems

- develop a constant interest for the progress of research in the field of WOP-P.

Then this didactical activity is not a traditional course but a “reflection space” to facilitate the task to integrate theory and practice.

Course contents

This Unit (reserved for Erasmus Mundus Master WOP-P students) consists of:

a) a preparation phase (November-February);

b) an intensive work phase (between February and March);

c) an assignment phase (after March).

 

Main topics (examples):

- State-of-the-art in WOP-P (f.i.: new forms of organizing and their consequences for organizational behaviour);

- Organizational planning and Intervention;

- New trends in organizational consulting;

- Competences and Knowledge management in organizations;

- Ethics in intervention

Readings/Bibliography

Books and papers will be communicated to students during the preparatory phase.

The Platform at Valencia University (http://aulavirtual.uv.es/) will be used to share such documents.

Teaching methods

The following teaching methods will be used:

• Reading documents (papers, reviews, ...);
• Case studies and crticial analysis odf methods and interventions;
• Teamwork to develop a plan for research or intervention;
• Writing assignments

Assessment methods

Evaluation will be based on the papers, related to the course contents, realised by the students; it will be considered also the active contribution of the students during the intensive phase and the final report.

Special and detailed instruction will be communicated at the beginning of the course

Teaching tools

Overhead projector, powerpoint, hand-pencil instruments

Teaching material will be downloaded from the web page of the WOP-P master.

Office hours

See the website of Salvatore Zappalà