School of Management, Unit Catalogue 2008/09 |
MN30427 Representations of organisations |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Honours |
| Semester: 1 |
| Assessment: EX60CW40 |
| Requisites: |
| Before taking this unit you must (take MN10001 and take MN10005) or take MN20080 or take MN20291 |
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Aims: The aim of this unit is to develop students' understanding of how management, work and organisations are represented in film. It highlights the role of film in drawing attention to many aspects of organisational behaviour that tend to be marginalised in textbook accounts, including emotion, embodiment and power. Through critical historical analysis of more than a hundred films from the 1920s to the present day, the unit aims to develop students' awareness of the importance of film in articulating and reflecting culturally specific ways of thinking about management, work and organisation.
Learning Outcomes: After completing this unit students should be able to: * critically analyse representations of management, work and organisation in film from a variety of theoretical perspectives; * understand the importance of film in constructing meanings of management and organisation in society; * reflect upon the significance of these representations for the construction of managerial and self identity. Skills: At the end of this unit students should gain the following skills: * knowledge and understanding of theoretical perspectives in organisation theory and organisational behaviour (T/A); * critical reflexivity in applying these theories to a variety of film texts and an ability to relate them to their own identity (F/A); * discussion and analytical and skills (F/T). Content: The unit will introduce students to understandings of modernism and postmodernism in organisational analysis through exploration of concepts including efficiency and measurement, globalisation and the meaning of work. Semiotic, feminist and poststructuralist perspectives will be used to analyse changing identities of industrial, post-industrial and managerial work during the twentieth and in the twenty-first centuries. |