NVB013 Digital organization and management

Contents and structure

Are you curious about organization and management in a digital age?

Do you want to understand and analyze the changes digital technology brings to organizational structures, collaboration, and leadership?

The course delves into how digital technology affects organizations in various areas. From innovations in products and services to fundamental changes in organizational processes, forms of collaboration and leadership roles.

During the course, you will be exposed to a combination of lectures, group work and seminars. Active participation is important. You will gain experience with group presentations, writing and critical discussion.

The course will provide updated knowledge about digital technology, robotization, digital platforms and artificial intelligence that is relevant to organization and management in a digital age.

Important topics are the extent to which businesses are ripe for digital changes and how organization, work processes and management are changed when digital solutions are implemented. The course provides knowledge about the bright side of digitalization such as benefits, value creation, efficiency, control, better decision-making and autonomy. The dark side of introducing digital organization is discussed, including challenges for ethics, sustainability and challenges for working life and human rights.

Learning Outcome

Knowledge

After completing the course, the student has knowledge and understanding of how:

• digital technology enables organizational change.
• organizations are ripe or immature for digitalization.

• digital technology and digital solutions can affect the organization, its function, structure, culture, operations, decision-making and goal achievement for interaction and management.
• digital organization and management challenge ethics, social responsibility and sustainability.

Skills

After completing the course, the students are:

• able to analyze how digital technology enables and leads to organizational change
• able to reflect critically on, and apply theories and methods within organization and digital transformation with emphasis on drivers and barriers for bright and dark sides of digital innovations.
• can participate constructively and make subject-based suggestions in change processes for organizations and management where digital technology is central.
• can assess challenges related to ethics, social responsibility and sustainability for digital technology in organizations.
• competent in critical source processing.

General competence

After completing the course, students are:

• able to work both independently and in teams with practical and theoretical problems.
• able to present the results of such work in oral and written form.
• can communicate relevant topics to both specialists and non-specialists.
• know when additional competence is necessary, and where such competence can be found.

Entry requirements

None

Recommended previous knowledge

Organization and management

Teaching methods

Three weekend meetings with lectures and practical tasks. Digital meetings between the physical gatherings. Physical teaching, seminar, group work and supervision.

Compulsory learning activities

One written group based assignment and one oral group presentation on given theme

Assessment

Home exam over 10 days either alone or in groups of up to three students - 100%

Grade scale A - F, where F is "failed".

Examination support material

All aids are allowed

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Course reductions

• DØL117 - Digital organisering og leiing - Reduction: 4 studypoints
• FLE117 - Digital organisering og leiing - Reduction: 4 studypoints
• MSB211 - Digital organisering og leiing - Reduction: 4 studypoints