Università Roma Tre

The course is divided into three parts: an institutional module, an in-depth module; seminars and meetings with the protagonists.

The institutional module aims to provide the basic concepts and the theoretical framework of the sociological work and organizational disciplines and to analyze the interconnections with other disciplines which have as their object the study of work, production organizations, human resource management and industrial relations.
There will be an in-depth analysis of the change of work in the world, in relation to the development of innovative organizational and managerial cultures, with particular attention to the aspects related to the constant demand for an increase in flexibility and productivity and the strategic importance assumed of soft and transversal skills in the new production processes.

The in-depth module, instead, aims to analyze the concepts and evolution of the negotiation and industrial relations in Italy and on an international level:
1. The transformations of work from a sociological point of view and the conceptual framework relative to the evolution of organizational models and cultures: from Taylor-Fordism to Total Quality Management and networking organizations;
2. The evolution of human resource management policies and tools in search of a new paradigm of reference: the person at the center of the processes;
3. Leadership and management of social-organizational processes in innovative enterprises and virtuous Public Administrations: The Strategic Role of Communication and Lifelong Learning;
4. The development of industrial relations in Italy: the sociological dimension of the economic, legal and institutional framework; the actors of industrial relations; the evolution of collective bargaining; industrial relations and participatory model; labour relations in Public Administrations.

In the final part of the course, seminars will be organized with the protagonists (corporate executives and managers of organization and development of human resources, representatives of trade unions) on issues of organization, training and development of skills, negotiation and regulation of employment relationships in innovative companies and virtuous public administrations.

NEGRELLI S., Le trasformazioni del lavoro: modelli e tendenze nel capitalismo globale, Laterza, Bari, 2013.
COCOZZA A., Comunicazione d’impresa e gestione delle risorse umane, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2012.
COCOZZA A., Organizzazioni. Culture, modelli, governance, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2014.

Teaching


Given the complexity of contemporary organizational contexts, where we can observe structures characterized by high complexity in terms of relation, emotion and communication, the workshop "Tools for empowerment in organizations" aims to illustrate to students methods and instrumentations more functional to govern this complexity, in an empowerment logic of subjects and organizations.
In line with the course of Sociology of the organization submitting the theoretical framework of organizational sociology and new business models that tend to recognize more and more the person as a strategic development, particular attention will focus on tools for personal growth such as counseling and coaching today widely used in management education and also considered important tools for enhancing and coordinating groups.
The laboratory has a theoretical-practical set with which to give students more than the necessary theoretical framework also an experiential dimension through which develop a personal growth process that leads them to develop emotional self-evaluation and reflective skills. Essential Skills to live and work in a complex society.

Who cannot attend lessons can be arranged with the teacher exercises to be performed using the e-learning environment that will support all interactions with the teacher and the class group.

Educational goals

The workshop aims to achieve, in particular, the following learning objectives.
1. Provide useful theoretical and methodological assumptions to understand various tools of empowerment of the subject and the specificity that characterizes them for organizational purposes, with a focus on counseling and coaching.
2. Develop emotional skills, self-evaluation and reflective skills, through the experiential dimension, that will allow them to experience some of the tools of personal growth that will be presented.
3. Promote critical reflection on the organizational use of such instruments.

Greenfield, Tecnologie radicali. Il progetto della vita quotidiana, Einaudi, 2017
KAPLAN J., Le persone non servono . Lavoro e ricchezza nell’epoca dell’intelligenza artificiale