| CODE | CLS5107 | ||||||
| TITLE | The Workplace | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Centre for Labour Studies | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit invites participants to understand more the work place dynamics. Students will appreciate how specific jobs are designed, both in isolation and in relation to a collectivity of employees/workers. It will encourage students to become aware and cognizant of the social, political, technical and managerial processes leading to the construction/identification of skills, tasks, job profiles, occupations and professions in different places of work and employment. The study-unit will also examine ways of enhancing the effectiveness of the individual within organisations. Study-Unit Outline: Work design and job classification: - The nature of organizations (including administration, production, market etc) - The organization of work (work control, job hierarchies, organigrams, bureaucracy) - Skills and the impact of technology - Occupations and professionalisation - The Shamrock organization - Tensions between occupational groups - Job classification - Case studies of selected organizations. Organisational behaviour: - Introducing organizational behaviour - The concepts of job analysis and person specification - Personnel selection (design and validation) - Motivation and performance - Job satisfaction - Stress at work. Required Text: Work design and job classification: No required text. Organisational behaviour: A set of readings will be distributed. Reading list: Work design and job classification: - Burns, Tom & George M. Stalker (1994) The Management of Innovation. First published in 1961. Oxford, Oxford University Press - Handy, Charles B. & Jollife, Gray (Illustrator) (1999) Inside Organisations, London, Penguin - Handy, Charles B. (1995) The Gods of Management, London, Arrow Books - Handy, Charles B. (1993) Understanding Organisations, London, Penguin - Henderson, Richard I. & Clarke, Kitty Williams (1981) Job Pay for Job Worth: Designing and Managing an Equitable Job Classification and Pay System, Research Monograph, Georgia State University. Georgia State University Press - Hofstede, Geert (1996) Cultures and Organizations, New York, McGraw-Hill - Knights, David & Willmott, Hugh, eds. (1988) New Technology and the Labour Process, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan - Knights, David & Willmott, Hugh (1999) Management Lives, London, Sage - Knights, David & Willmott, Hugh, eds. (2000) The Re-engineering Revolution, London, Sage - Smith, Chris, et. al., eds. (1995) White-collar Work, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan - Sturdy, Andrew et al., eds. (1992) Skill and Consent, London, International Thomson Business Press - Wall, Toby & Parker, Sharon (1998) Job and Work Design, New York, Sage Publications - Wood, Stephen, ed. (1980) The Degradation of Work?: De-skilling and the Labour Process. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Paul Gauci |
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