The New Economy, Systems, Logistics and Global Flows
The New Economy: Systems, Logistics and Global Flows
Lecturer: Kibbie Naidoo
Semester: 2nd
The aim of this module is to understand methodologies of inter-organisational planning & strategic interventions.
Content: Consequences of informational paradigms in a globalising economy. The course provides an overview of some very recent organizational reconfigurations that are changing both the workplace and the life-chances of individuals, social groups and broader collectivities. It traces how informational, embedded and disembedded, systems are creating new opportunities and risks. Finally how compliance and dissonance interact to generate challenges to emerging global configurations.
Course Structure:
- Part 1: The modern dilemma
- Part 2: Globalisation and Global Flows
- Part 3: Organisational Transformations
- Part 4: New Local Global Paradigm and Its Contradictory Alternatives
- Part 5: Module Project
Objectives of the module:
- Understanding globalisation and its implications for different parts of the world
- Explaining the consequences of globalisation for organisational change
- A critical perspective on the possibilities of networked organisations and project- based alliances to achieve their goals in the new millennium.
- Envisioning processes of organisational networking to achieve project goals
- Empowering organisational leaders with the ability to manage global flows of goods, people, information,
- telecommunications and economic transactions.
- Understanding social movements