Organizing for Good in the digital age

Objectives

Most of us will spend a large portion of our lives contributing to organizations. Grand challenges of our time will demand that organizations contribute to these solutions. Organizing for Good in the Digital Age is designed as an interactive class in which we will develop together with students a concept of the good organization and what it means to do good and how, and under what conditions organizations, teams, and individuals within organizations can and should focus on doing good. 


General characterization

Code

2635

Credits

3.5

Responsible teacher

Paolo Vincenzo Leone

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

English

Prerequisites

n/a 


Bibliography

Available soon 

Teaching method

The course follows a seminar format, with sessions being highly interactive, centering around discussions of the assigned material and team work. The students will need to prepare the sessions by analyzing the assigned material, and will need to prepare for the final group presentation. 


Evaluation method

The assessment will be based on individual work and group work. The individual work consists in writing two reflection memos of two pages each (1.5 interline spacing, Times New Roman 12, 1 inch margins throughout the page), excluding references, tables, and figures. In the reflection memos, students will be asked to integrate the course material with what they learned in class. Each memo is worth 30% of the final grade. The group work will take place mostly in class during each session. Each group will need to prepare a presentation to show with 10 Power Point slides during the last session. The group work is worth 40% of the final grade. 


Subject matter

This course has two components. The first half of each session will be devoted to the first component; the second half to the second component.

Component 1: Organizing for Good Theory and Methods 

Through a case-based method, we will review the existing, global organizational landscape and the inner workings of organizations. We will revisit well-established organizational approaches and concepts such as corporate social responsibility, philanthropic organizations, non-government organizations, social and environmental entrepreneurship as well as examine novel organizational forms and assess their potential for doing good in a complex, global world.

Component 2: Organizing for Good Applications and Challenges