5109697: C19 BPM and Organizational Practice

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Semester:SS 21
Type:Module
ECTS-Credits:3.0
Scheduled in semester:2
Semester Hours per Week / Contact Hours:30.0 L / 22.5 h
Self-directed study time:67.5 h

Module coordination/Lecturers

Curricula

Master's degree programme in Information Systems (01.09.2019)

Description

BPM and Organisational Practice explores Business Process Management (BPM) through an organisational-studies lens, so it is a BPM elective. Emphasizing the duality of stability and change in organisational work, the course covers the factors, mechanisms, and interventions that affect how processes behave over time. The course covers six primary topics:

  • Organisation theory
  • Process- and practice-based research
  • Organisational routines
  • Intra-organisational dynamics and endogenous change
  • Organisational learning, unlearning, and forgetting
  • The role of agency and intention in the execution of organisational work

Learning Outcomes

After successful completion of the course, students will:

  • understand the basics of organisation theory
  • be able to relate BPM to insights from organisational studies
  • understand how and why processes change and evolve over time, even in unpredictable ways
  • be able to design interventions to facilitate stability and/or change in process-related organisational work

Qualifications

Lectures Method

  • The course involves interactive lectures with exercises to integrate theoretical knowledge with practical design and analysis skills.
  • The e-learning platform Moodle is used throughout the course to disseminate course material and for information and discussion.

Literature

  • Compulsory reading:Papers and other course material are provided. - Additional reading:Langley, A., & Tsoukas, H. (2017). The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies. London, UK: SAGE Publications.