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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Understanding Modern Business and Organisations
This course developed an understanding of modern business by considering themes which together shape the playing field of any organisation.
6 weeks, 6 hours per week
Dr Viktor Dörfler
Course Leader
University of Strathclyde
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop an initial understanding of the social and business context, structures, and management and leadership process in contemporary organisations.
- Interpret what it means for organisations to reinvent them as communities.
- Explore the main forces that shape modern business and organisations today: knowledge, technology, ethics and globalisation.
- Describe organisations that you know, in your own social, cultural, and economical context from the perspectives of the four major forces.
- Compare experiences in a variety of contexts provided by the internationally diverse participants of the course.
- Discuss hot topics from the world of modern business and organisations that matter to you.
- Evaluate other participants' essays providing them with comments and by doing so understand your own topics of interest better.
- Reflect on your learning and performance in the light of the comments you receive from the other participants.
- Apply what you learnt to the phenomenon of the financial crisis in order to deepen your understanding.
Syllabus
- An initial understanding of modern business and organisations
- Up-to-date concepts to shape understanding of the four major forces that shape the world of modern business and organisations: knowledge, technology, ethics and globalisation
- Trigger concepts to prompt changing mind about what accepted (up-to-date) knowledge is regarding the four major sources
- Upcoming concepts, developed in collaboration with the participants, to facilitate an open-minded exploration of knowledge that is still being developed
- Part of the content is developed based on the interest of the participants using the ‘Ask Viktor’ feature
- Based on Henry Mintzberg, the phenomenon of the financial crisis is described as the crisis of management rather than the crisis of economics
- Knowledge acquired in the first five weeks is applied to make sense of the financial crisis, arguing for or against Mintzberg’s position through a chosen concept from each of the four major forces that shape the world of modern business and organisations
Issued on 9th February 2023
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