43067 - Organisational Communication

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • Docente: Roberto Rizza
  • Credits: 8
  • SSD: SPS/08
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Roberto Rizza (Modulo 1) Marino Cavallo (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Cesena
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Work, organization, personnel psychology & services (cod. 0992)

Learning outcomes

The course will focus on:

  - organisational life within social and collective action settings;

- communicational processes within organisation and with the outside;

- projecting organisations in complex environments.

Course contents

The course will be divided in two intertwined parts. The first one will analyze organizational life and the main organisational dimensions: organisational structure, organisational culture, power in organisations and organisational relations within complex systems of action. The second part of the course will focus on the relationship between organisational life and communicational processes.

Readings/Bibliography

M. Ferrante, S. Zan, Il fenomeno organizzativo, Roma, Carocci, 2009

E. Invernizzi, La comunicazione organizzativa: teorie, modelli e metodi, Milano, Giuffrè, 2000,  (parte I, pagg. 1-209).

Teaching methods

Lectures, group discussions, case studies, project works.

Assessment methods

Written examination

Teaching tools

movies, essays, group discussions.

Office hours

See the website of Roberto Rizza

See the website of Marino Cavallo