DØL117 Digital Organization and Management

Contents and structure

This course provide up-to-date knowledge of organization and management in a digital age. Important topics are how digital technologies and their utilization enable improvements, transformation and challenges for:

• organizational structures and work processes

• decision making

• organization and technology

• management and remote digital management

• interaction between human employees and digital solutions such as robotics and artificial intelligence.

• ethics, social responsibility and accountability

• regulation

Learning Outcome

Knowledge

After completing the course, the student has knowledge and understanding of:

• how digital technology enables and entails organizational transformation
• digital technology and digital solutions that can affect the organization, its functioning, operations, decision-making and goal achievement.
• how digital technology affects the choice of structure, culture and practice for organizational form, interaction and management.
• challenges related to ethics, social responsibility and sustainability when using digital technology

Skills

After completing the course, the students are:

• able to analyze how digital technology enables and brings about organizational transformation
• can reflect critically on and apply theories and methods within organization and digital transformation with an emphasis on drivers and barriers
• can participate constructively and make research-based proposals in organizational change processes where digital technology is central
• can assess challenges related to ethics, social responsibility and sustainability for digital technology in organisations.

General competanse

After completing the course, the students are:

• able to work both independently and in teams with practical and theoretical problems
• able to present the results of such work in oral and written form
• can communicate relevant topics to both specialists and non-specialists
• know when additional expertise is needed and where it can be found

Entry requirements

None

Teaching methods

Lectures, seminar, group work and supervision

Compulsory learning activities

A group-based submission according to a given topic

Assessment

Partial exam:

Group based essay on stated topic (represent 60% of exam grade).

Individual school exam 5 hours (represent 40% of the exam grade).

Grade scale: A-F, where F corresponds to fail.

Examination support material

School exam: None

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