The course is structured in sixteen units and will run for sixteen weeks. Every week we will specifically approach one of the chapters and will work more intensely on its content. We will deal with the following subjects:

PART I
Unit 1: Introduction: The Study of Organizations
Unit 2: The First Industrial Revolution
Unit 3: Advanced Industrial Societies
Unit 4: Information Society
Unit 5: The Classical Theory of Organization
Unit 6: The Discovery of Informal Organization
Unit 7: The Systems Theory
Unit 8: Institutional Theories

PART II
Unit 9: Roles Systems
Unit 10: Social Structure
Unit 11: Culture in Organization
Unit 12: Material Structure
Unit 13: Participation in Work
Unit 14: The Problem of Motivation
Unit 15: Communicational Processes
Unit 16: New Technologies and the Future of Work

The textbook used will be: A. Lucas and P. García: Sociology of Organizations, Madrid, McGraw-Hill, 2002.