The Institute offers courses in organisational anthropology both at Bachelor and Master levels.
The course provides an introduction to cultural understanding as a basis for reflective and constructive conduct when encountering unfamiliar cultures. The course presents an overview over peculiarities in central cultural areas, including Europe, the Arab world, Latin America, China and Japan. The aim of the course is to communicate a general cultural understanding as a backdrop to international work. Emphasis will be put on providing a general introduction to a social anthropological way of thinking, offering insight into trans-cultural communication, social consequences and social responsibility related to business activity, aid work etc.
This Bachelor-degree course offers students to develop a basic understanding of anthropological perspectives on both public and business organizations. The course covers interpersonal relations, the dynamics of cooperation, group processes, loyalty building and corporate culture. During the course proceedings the identity politics of things will be examined; the processes that turn both businesses and products into brand names. Organizational, rhetorical and narratological factors in such processes are identified and analyzed.
Objective: To develop specialized skills for work and research in corporate business.
This Master level course has the objective to develop specialized skills for work and research in corporate business. The course aims at making anthropological concepts and analytical tools applicable to the study of organizations and businesses. Organizations and economic life are constantly changing. By taking into account how meaning and reality are formed and renegotiated in social contexts, changes can be planned and implemented with a basis in local structures of experience. The course investigates such processes of negotiation, planning and implementation.
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