Duration
24h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Project to organize a training for social workers, project to computerize archival data, project to market a new product... We talk more and more about project management. Some even talk about a "projectisation" of private companies, public administrations and non-profit organizations. What does it mean ?
On the one hand, this course aims at questionning the origins, causes and consequences of the introduction of project management in organizations: what do projects change in the organization of work? what are the advantages of the projects? what are the excesses and dangers of project logic?
On the other hand, this course proposes to analyze project management by using several sociological tools: the city by projects, the sociology of organizations, professional groups, gender, professional dispositions are all reading grids we will use to study different facets of project management and its effects on organizations and workers.
Over the sessions, students will learn how to use these different analytical frameworks to analyse specific projects.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- Acquire knowledge on the genesis of project management in public and private organizations and on methodologies, paradigms, and classical approaches of project management;
- To be able to distinguish different sociological approaches to project management, i.e. different ways of sociologically analyzing the causes, practices, representations and effects of the implementation of project management systems in organizations (cités par projets, professional groups, social classes, gender, etc.);
- To be able to use theoretical concepts in a sociological analysis of a concrete project.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Recommended readings are available under the section "Items online"
Exam(s) in session
May-June exam session
- In-person
oral exam
August-September exam session
- In-person
oral exam
Additional information:
Assessment consists of an oral examination. Students will have to apply the theoretical concepts covered in the course to analyse concrete projects.
Work placement(s)
Not applicable
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Aude Lejeune
aude.lejeune@uliege.be