Management and Organizations (OPEN UNI)

From

31.12.2025

5 cr

The course covers the topics and questions of organizations and management, human organizing and processes as well as change management. The premises of the course are the traditional management schools of thought (scientific management, human relations school of thought, Hawthorne-studies, etc.) that the course goes through thoroughly. The course builds the newest questions of organizational theoretical approaches (change, processuality, etc.) on this understanding. In the course the students are introduced with the development of organizations and management, by presenting different organization types and management styles as well as the ways how those issues affect organization functioning.

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Fields

Business, administration and law

Scope

5 cr

1 component

Code

AY724102P

What you will learn

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to distinguish the concepts related to organization, organizing as well as managerial and entrepreneurial work. This understanding helps the student's ability to identify organizational processes in everyday work-life interventions and to list the possible change factors within a chosen organization. The student is also able to identify different kinds of organizations and can define the different principles of management styles. The student is able to understand various ongoing functions within organizations and their requirements for the organizations' management. The student understands the role of organizational development and learns to register the most essential challenges of management in the current organizations.

Additional information

Organiser

Oulun yliopisto

Contact details

avoin.yliopisto@oulu.fi