Learning outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:


  1. Contextualize the emergence of organizational and managerial innovations in relation to broader societal transformations;
  2. Identify, analyze and critically discuss the impact on people, work and employment of:
  3. New forms of work organisation, employment and emerging organizational models;
  4. New technologies (AI, metaverse);
  5. Changes in the relationship to work and employment;
  6. Renewed diversity management in the workplace;
  7. Interpret the evolution of organizations and managerial practices in terms of social and digital inclusion;
  8. Recognize and reflectively mobilize managerial methods and techniques to support organizational and managerial innovations from a humane management perspective.

Goals

The course aims to provide future managers with the theoretical, conceptual and empirical foundations needed to contextualize, critically understand and implement organizational and managerial innovations responsibly. To this end, the course introduces recent transformations in the world of work, including the emergence of new forms of work, employment, organizational structures and management.


Through lectures, testimonials, videos, discussions with academic and field experts and case studies, the goal is to confront, understand and analyze organizational and managerial trends in order to inspire future responsible managerial practices. Ultimately, this course aims to develop students’ reflexivity as well as their managerial skills.

Content

The course is organized into four main sections: 

  1. Bricks:
  2. New forms of work organisation (e.g. hybrid work, work democratization).
  3. New forms of employment (e.g. platform work, total workforce management).
  4. Emerging models of agility and robustness.
  5. Bytes:
  6. Managing in the age of AI (upskilling/reskilling, metaverse, etc.).
  7. Behaviour:
  8. New attitudes to work and new forms of career management
  9. Rethinking diversity management (neurodiversity, disability at work, migration, etc.). 
  10. Innovation management or management innovation? 
  11. The managerial and human challenges of innovation.
  12. Supporting innovation from a humane management perspective.


Teaching methods

The course draws upon:

  • Lectures
  • Practical cases, presented through testimonials from academic or field experts, or through case studies, which are carried out mainly in class.  
  • Interactive sessions aimed at helping students to understand the content and cases presented.


Together with your notes, these three sources of learning constitute the subject matter of the written examination, unless otherwise specified (e.g. reference to an article or passage from a book).

Assessment method

A written exam composed of a multiple-choice questionnaire, open questions, reflection or application questions related to the different concepts/case studies studied during the course will assess the learning outcomes.

Language of instruction

French