Università Roma Tre

The course is developed 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.

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

SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATION AND WORK - 3 CFU (20H)

Given the complexity of contemporary organizational contexts, increasingly characterized by network structures with high organizational and technological complexity, the advanced Sociology of Organizations module intends to dwell in particular on the thrusts introduced by the whirling digital innovation process.
In continuity with the course of Sociology of the organization (6 - CFU Prof. Cocozza), which presents the theoretical frame of reference of the sociological organizational disciplines and the new organizational models that tend to increasingly recognize the person as a strategic lever of development, the advanced module focuses in particular on the complicated relationship between organization, technological transformations and society with the intent to understand the implications for organizations and for work.
The advanced module looks at organizations and works in the information and knowledge society which stands out, as suggested by Castells, for its being: informational, global and reticular.

The module aims to offer students in addition to the necessary theoretical framework of reference also the possibility of measuring themselves with a working methodology that increasingly requires subjects to be active and decisive carriers of conditions of tumultuous change and uncertainty that characterizes modern organizations in the global scenario. For this reason the laboratory privileges the active and dialogical methodology where the students themselves become protagonists of the "discovery" and the sharing of the acquired knowledge; useful methodology to develop communicative, relational and reflexive competences, today fundamental for living and working in a complex society.
The course, therefore, includes in-depth thematic analyzes through individual and/or group project work.

Non-attending students will be able to select a text from those indicated and prepare a critical summary (written in-depth) to be sent to the teacher two days before the exam and to discuss during the interview.

1 book to choose from:
Gallino L., I denaro, il debito e la doppia crisi, Einaudi, 2015
Gallino L, Tecnologia e democrazia, Eibaudi, 2007
Gallino L., Limpresa irresponsabile, Einaudi, 2005
Latouche S., L’invenzione dell’economia, Bollati
Becchetti L., La felicità sostenibile, Saggine, 2005
Stark D., The sense of dissonance, Pricenton, 2011
Floridi L. La Quarta rivoluzione. Come l’infosfera sta trasformando il mondo, Cortina, 2017
Greenfield, Tecnologie radicali. Il progetto della vita quotidiana, Einaudi, 2017
Carol Lee Graham, The Economics of Happiness