Organizations, innovations, and intelligent technologies

The course offers a critical understanding of how Intelligent Technologies inform and shape workplace dynamics, organisational processes, and organisations. The course aims to provide students with the conceptual foundations and frameworks they need to think analytically about how the digitalisation of work and the increasing human-technology interactions affect the way in which work is performed in the workplace. By paying attention to the real-world dynamics of technological innovation, students will develop an appreciation of technological change and contemporary organizing.

Having successfully completed this course, students will be able to:
· Discuss the most prominent perspectives on the relationship between technology and organisations, such as technological determinism, social constructivism, and sociomateriality.
· Analyse the key challenges of digitalisation and data-driven culture within organizations
· Critically assess the strategic role of data and how datafication influences organisational decision-making and management expertise.
· Critically examine how the introduction of Intelligent Technologies (e.g., autonomous robots, AI systems, augmented reality) is reshaping job roles, and skills.
· Discuss the implications of algorithmic management for employee autonomy over the work processes, as well as its impact on power dynamics and control mechanisms in organisations
· Illustrate the different types of technological change - such as substitutional and infrastructural change - and their reverberations in organisations and society.
· Evaluate the prospects and challenges offered by technological innovation and examine how Intelligent Technologies shape organisational processes and people and examine their impact on sectors and society

Key general skills
· Master oral and written communication, using presentation and other communication tools
· Develop time management study skills, being able to complete assignment on time and prepare readings in advance