ORG 3650 People Insights
ORG 3650 People Insights
Qualitative methodology is essential to understand and describe organizations and leadership. A precondition to maintain, develop and change an organization, is knowledge of what characterizes the current situation. Insight into qualitative methodology is essential not only to develop knowledge of an organization, but also to evaluate the quality and premisses of this knowledge. Qualitative methodology is also useful to understand and develop the role as helper, advisor and change agent in an organization.
Students will acquire basic knowledge and critical understanding of qualitative research methodology and the different stages of a qualitative research process.
After completing the course, the students shall be able to carry out investigations based on qualitative methodology, and be able to reflect on opportunities and weaknesses of such investigations.
After the course, students should be able to understand qualitative methodology, and how to use qualitative methods for practical research and investigations into organizations.
- Introduction: Qualitative methodology - what, why, when?
- Qualitative methods: What characterizes important qualitative research methods?
- Analysing: How to analyse qualitative data material?
- Quality: What characterizes good qualitative research?
- The expert role: What does it take to act as a helper, advisor, internal consultant, external consultant and change agent in an organization? What is expertise?
• The course is completed with 30 hours of lectures on the five main topics in the course. In addition, guidance is given on the term paper and feedback on voluntary work requirements.
• The exam is written and consists of a multiple-choice test and a term paper.
• The term paper can be written individually or in groups of up to 3 students. The multiple-choice test is conducted individually.
Higher Education Entrance Qualification
Covid-19
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there may be deviations in teaching and learning activities as well as exams, compared with what is described in this course description.
Teaching
Information about what is taught on campus and other digital forms will be presented with the lecture plan before the start of the course each semester.
ORG 3402 Psychology, Organization and Leadership or equivalent.
| Mandatory coursework | Courseworks given | Courseworks required | Comment coursework |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voluntary | 1 | 1 | There will be one voluntary work requirement. The voluntary work requirement consists of preparing an abstract for the term paper. The abstract should be between 200 and 400 words. Further information is given in the lecture and on It's Learning. |
| Assessments |
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 65 Grouping: Group/Individual (1 - 3) Duration: 1 Semester(s) Exam code: ORG 36501 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination every semester |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Structured test Invigilation Weight: 35 Grouping: Individual Support materials:
Duration: 1 Hour(s) Comment: Multiple choice test where the student will be tested in the course syllabus literature. All exam elements must be passed to achieve a final grade in the course. Exam code: ORG 36502 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination every semester |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
|---|---|---|
Teaching | 30 Hour(s) | |
Submission(s) | 80 Hour(s) | |
Student's own work with learning resources | 60 Hour(s) | |
Examination | 20 Hour(s) | |
Feedback activities and counselling | 10 Hour(s) |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 7,5 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 200 hours.
All exam elements must be passed to achieve a final grade in the course.