2023-2024 / PSYC5897-3

Team, organization and change

Duration

4h Th, 44h SEM

Number of credits

 Bachelor in bioengineering2 crédits 

Lecturer

Daniel Faulx, Véronique Jans, Tiber Manfredini

Coordinator

Daniel Faulx

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

This course is based on a "serious gaming" activity wich allows the student to:

  • test out personally in context;
  • analyse together with his peers, under the conduct of a third party;
  • understand and generalize professional situations :
- teamwork and the fundamental phenomena of groups dynamics that characterize it; - a company functioning and the fundamental processes that structure it; - organizational change management and its impact on the groups and individuals.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is preceded by an introductory session in the auditorium but takes place mainly in the form of a seminar: from Friday to Saturday evening.

During the introductory session, students receive a short theorical course relative to groups, organization and conduct of change. This session also provides information about the future seminar.


During the seminar, students are divided into groups of 4-6 people supervised by a professional psychosocial consultant. The same mission is assigned at each group: the conquest of a planet, a strategy game software that presents many analogies with the operation of a company (strategies's definition and declination in operational objectives, human resource's management, supply chain's management, decision-making in uncertainty or crisis situation, etc.).

The same learning sequence is repeated 5 times during the seminar and complicated gradually: preparation and organization in a group, conducted simulation team, psycho-social and psycho-organizational debriefing managed by the psycho-social consultant, sequence of individual & collective auto-reflexivite for students with a methodology of "synopsis". The training sequence restarts with a collective reserarch for improvement and the definition of the improved organization.

During the same weekend, students receive a session of discussion in small groups with Alumni of GxABT on all aspects of working life in a company or organization that they want to address.

A post-seminar debriefing session allows students to go deeper into the content and ask questions to the supervisors.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course

Recommended or required readings

Theoritical documents shared BEFORE & AFTER the seminar 

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

oral exam


Additional information:

By seminar group and based on their lived experience, the students carry out an oral presentation which will highlight their reading of the situations based on the theoretical benchmarks of the course. A collective discussion will be organized immediately with one of the teachers.

More precise instructions relating to the oral exam will be communicated during the introductory session.  

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Each student is required to participate in: - the introductory session of the course; - 1 seminar, among the 3 proposed dates: November 24-25; February 23-24; March 15-16 - 1 debriefing session linked to the seminar followed: December 8; March 1 ; March 22 Oral exams are organized during the January/May sessions(unless requested by students for another time; dates negotiated on a case-by-case basis with the groups, in consultation with the faculty of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech)

Contacts

Daniel FAULX (daniel.faulx@uliege.be) Véronique JANS (veronique.jans@uliege.be) Tiber MANFREDINI (tiber.manfredini@uliege.be)  
GxABT secretary : Sonia BOSSIERE (sonia.bossiere@uliege.be)

Association of one or more MOOCs

There is no MOOC associated with this course.