Master of Interdisciplinary Studies on Work and Organizations (MEITO)

Postgraduate course approved by CONEAU according to Opinion Act No. 587.

Program Director: Dr. Rodolfo Escalada

Academic Coordination: Esp. Luciana Wulfsohn

Academic Committee :

Heads: Dr. Flaviana Ponce, Dr. Maricel Bertolo, Mg. Nestor Taborda.

Substitutes : Mg. Verónica Véntola, Mg. Guillermo Beccani

:: RATIONALE: The Master's Program in Interdisciplinary Studies on Work and Organizations (MEITO) understands that the study of the fields of Work and Organizations involves a multiplicity of disciplines, which maintain relationships of integration and differentiation, producing complex tensions and contradictions in the social sphere. Based on this understanding, the Curriculum encompasses two central dimensions. On the one hand, it adopts a critical perspective on the relationship between Work and Organizations, given that it encompasses social relations, impacting mental health, economic, legal, and political situations (among others). On the other hand, it aims for students to appreciate the tensions between fields from an interdisciplinary perspective and the potential consequences we may find in societies, assuming that the relationship between Work and Organizations is central to the processes of subjectivation and human development. Secondly, a commitment is made to incorporating knowledge and perspectives that allow intervention, both in academic and professional performance, contributing strategies and methods that are linked to the common good.

:: DURATION AND MODALITY: : 720 hours

:: GOALS: 

  1. Train teachers who, from an interdisciplinary perspective, can address the complexity and tensions present in the fields of work and organizations.
  2. Develop in the / os maestrandas / os capacities for research, qualitative and quantitative, aimed at understanding the specific problems of work and organizations.
  3. Guide the analysis and practice in the fields of work and organizations, from a critical perspective, in order to provide intervention strategies.
  4. Define a modality of participation in the fields of work and organizations, with an eye on the social transformations of the time.
  5. Guide the training of teachers for professional performance, both as members of an organization or as external advisers or analysts.

:: GRADUATE PROFILE:

The Master's in Interdisciplinary Studies on Work and Organizations will have a solid theoretical, methodological and technical training in the fields of work and organizations. This will allow you, through interdisciplinary training, to address the problems of the fields of work and organizations based on the understanding of the complexity that they establish in the different territories.

Its main competencies include:

  • An interdisciplinary approach to fields of work and organizations.
  • A critical perspective with its gaze set on the social transformations of the time and its relationship with work and organizations.
  • Interdisciplinary research on work and organizations, oriented to the study of local and regional realities.
  • Design of intervention strategies that contribute to the quality of life of the population and development of organizations.

:: ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS :

Those who meet the following conditions will be admitted to the Interdisciplinary Master's Program on Work and Organizations:

  1. Possess a degree corresponding to careers such as: Psychology, Sociology, Law, Political Science, Social Work, Social Communication, Economic Sciences, International Relations, Education, Medical Sciences, Lic. in History, Engineers, Architects, among other qualifications issued by Argentine universities - national, provincial or private - legally recognized, and comply with the specific requirements determined, for each particular case, by the Academic Commission of the career. The degree is aimed at those applicants, professionals and/or academics, who work or show interest in the fields of work and organizations from an interdisciplinary perspective.
  2. Possess degree titles equivalent to those indicated in the previous paragraph, issued by foreign Universities officially recognized in their respective countries, duly certified by the faculty, the Accrediting Body of their country or the corresponding Ministry. Its admission will not mean revalidation of the degree title.
  3. Those who hold non-university higher level degrees (with degrees similar to those indicated in the preceding paragraphs) of at least four (4) years' duration – in accordance with the provisions of art. 39 bis of the Higher Education Law - and meet the prerequisites determined by the Academic Commission in order to verify that their training is compatible with the demands of this career. In exceptional cases, those applicants who are outside the preceding terms and have academic, professional and/or labor preparation and/or experience, in accordance with the requirements of this master's degree, may aspire to be admitted. Said background must be endorsed by the institution in which the applicant works. The Academic Commission may propose leveling activities (directed reading, seminars or others) if it deems it necessary. The admission and obtaining of the postgraduate degree does not accredit in any way the previous degree corresponding to it.
  4. Non-Spanish-speaking applicants must prove the INDEPENDENT INTERMEDIATE level (B2) or higher level of knowledge of the Spanish language for registration, in accordance with the standards established by the MECRL (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages). In the case of being admitted, they must prove, prior to the Thesis Defense or the Final Project, the ADVANCED level of knowledge of the Spanish language in accordance with the same standards. Applicants must accredit the indicated levels through the international DUCLE certificate (University Diploma of Competence in Spanish as a Foreign Language) from the UNR or other international certifications recognized by the International Certification System for Spanish as a Foreign Language (SICELE).

In all cases, the selection of the applicants will be resolved by the Academic Commission of the major, through a well-founded opinion, which will be duly communicated to the applicant.

:: CURRICULUM: 

Minimum Contents of the Subjects, Workshops and Teaching Team

  1. WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS IN A HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF TRANSFORMATIONS

Teachers: Dr. Leonardo Schvarstein – Dr. Rodolfo Escalada

Theories of complexity. Holographic Paradigm. Biology of Knowledge (Structure-organization-system-environment-autopoiesis-cognition of complex systems). Changes and Transformations: political, cultural, institutional, regulatory and sociotechnical. Alternative modes of conceptions of work and organizations. Work and new forms of subjective structuring. Growing individualism and dissolution of collectives. Individualism linked to self-management, self-development, self-control. Maximization of capacities by technological and genetic means. The COVID-19 pandemic as a historical milestone and its impact on the social organization of work. Collective self-management and community.

  • CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON POWER IN WORK ORGANIZATIONS

Teachers: Dr. Carlos Bonantini – Ps. Victor Quiroga

Perspectives on power and politics in and in the context of organizations. Governance and perspectives of the administration of the conflict or controversy. Ideological changes in relation to control in organizational management. Approach to power from complex systems. Power and communication. New power technologies associated with information technologies. Uses of artificial intelligence in organizations. Authority, leadership, heterarchy, holarchy. ecological ethics.

  • TRANSFORMATIONS OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS RELATED TO TECHNOLOGIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Teachers: Mag. Nestor Taborda – Mg. Veronica Ventola

Senses and nature of work. The specificity of human work and the notion of work. The transformations of the world of work. Labor problems in recent Argentina. Innovation and employment. The paradigm of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and its influence in the world of work. Employment in the framework of technological change. Structural changes and new forms of work uncertainty and reconfiguration of the workplace. Industries 4.0, regulatory institutional frameworks, management technologies and the link to the notion of work, in its most diverse senses, within economic structures. The incorporation of the gender category to the analysis of the world of work. The knowledge society. Crisis and emergence of new production models. Organizations as networks of conversations. Manage communication in organizations. Strategic communication scheme. Environment, society and territory.

  • INVESTIGATION METHODOLOGY

Teachers: Dr. Claudia Perlo – Dr. Juan Diego Vaamonde

Research methodology from different theoretical perspectives. Research as a practice for understanding work processes and organizations. Research, complexity and interdisciplinary. Research and social transformations. Quantitative and qualitative approaches. Stages of the research process. The problem, the question and the objectives. The construction of the theoretical framework. Methodological designs. The data collection process. The construction of instruments. Techniques and tools for data analysis. Triangulation in research. Ethical considerations in social research. Writing and academic communication.

  • WORKSHOP I: PROJECT WORKSHOP

Teachers: Dr. Juan Diego Vaamonde – Lic. Analía Costa

The Workshop will focus on the analysis of a selection of research projects that will allow students to recognize the process of preparing a project: from the delimitation of the themes / problems to the determination of the categories of analysis, of the theoretical-conceptual frameworks and the methodology on which the investigations are based. This workshop aims to introduce students to the process of developing a research project and the rhetoric of academic texts.

  • HEALTH PROCESSES – ILLNESS IN WORK ORGANIZATIONS

Teachers: Dr. María Flaviana Ponce

Work environments and organizational forms: their impact on Health. Social reproduction in the determination of the health-disease process. Work environment and interpersonal relationships. Violence and discrimination. From malaise to suffering in labor relations. Mental exhaustion, psychodynamics of work. Differences, complementation and improvement with work psychopathology. Organizational intervention in the face of risks, diseases and accidents: Identification and evaluation of risks, preventive programs and promotion of health, quality of life, treatment and improvement of working conditions.

  • WORK AND TERRITORY. TRANSFORMATIONS, TENSIONS AND DISPUTES

Teachers: Mag. Guillermo Beccani

Current debates about work. End of work, metamorphosis of the wage society, jobs of the future. Unemployment, informality. Unemployment and precariousness. Unregistered work. Labor markets, labor flexibility. The work from the perspective of the territory. Policies towards employment and work. Strategies of the workers to face the restructuring of the world of work in the XNUMXst century. Cooperativism, recovered and self-managed companies, workers of the social and popular economy, organizational processes. Labor relations, labor markets, productive matrix. Structural vulnerabilities for labor insertion. Data and information sources (registration and measurement). International Organizations for Latin America.

  • WORK, GENDER AND DIVERSITY: PAST AND PRESENT

Teachers: Dr. Maricel Bertolo – Dr. Miriam Wlosko

The world of work in historical perspective. The cultural construction of sexual difference. The definition of work. The sexual division of labor. The ideology of domesticity. Main female occupations. State intervention in the labor sphere. Labor legislation. Unions and collective bargaining. The social protest. Sex-gender inequalities in the current labor market. Gender gaps: occupational segregation and salary discrimination. Strategies for survival and poverty. Labor inclusion experiences: LGBTIQ collective.

  • WORKSHOP II: PLANNING THE THESIS AND FINAL PROJECT

Teachers: Dr. Juan Diego Vaamonde – Lic. Analía Costa

In this workshop the students will prepare the draft of the individual final work project. The work of the workshop will include a first instance destined to the description and orientation, by the teacher of the workshop, of the guidelines to follow for the organization and writing of the project. In a second instance, a group work will be carried out to read and discuss the drafts of the projects.

  1. LABOR AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Teachers: Dr. Jorge Murillo – Dr. Sebastián Serrano Alou

Human right to work. Work: means of personal and community fulfillment or means of subsistence? Individual and collective labor law. The future of work (shortage, increasing professionalization, productivist logic and social exclusion). The work of sectors in vulnerable conditions: indigenous peoples, women, migrants, minors, the informal sector. Fight for dignity vs utility logic. International and comparative jurisprudence. The struggle for human rights: workers' struggle for dignity in Latin America.

  1. TRANSFORMATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE IN WORK ORGANIZATIONS

Teachers: Dr. Rodolfo Escalada – Lic. Adriana Racca

Institution and Organization; Organizational culture; Transformation and change; Change leadership and power relations; prospective; Transformation of hegemonic models of the economy and technology. Its impact on the hegemonic models in the institutions; Change management methodologies. Large scale change; Organizational ecosystems and systemic change.

  1. MODALITIES OF INTERVENTION IN WORK ORGANIZATIONS

Teachers: Dr. Andrea Pujol

Demands and typical practices in private and/or public spheres: advice, consultancy, technical assistance, linkage, transfer. Role of the professionals. Position (external/internal), framing and receipts. Transversal competences. Consulting processes in development and innovation: assumptions, dimensions, stages, evaluation of results. Tools and basic instruments. Knowledge management: intervention in training and development of people and teams. Good practices and lessons learned. Implication management: intervention in the design and development of collaborative environments. Good practices and lessons learned.

  1. WORKSHOP III: PROGRESS OF THE THESIS AND FINAL PROJECT I

Teachers: Dr. Juan Diego Vaamonde – Lic. Analía Costa

This Workshop will lead to the reading and discussion of the first reports on the progress of the investigations. The reports will be worked on in a first instance through a cross-reading between the students and, in a second instance, a sharing will be carried out that may count on the participation of other teachers that make up the faculty. of the career and/or directors of Thesis or Final Project.

  1. ELECTIVE SUBJECT I
  2. ELECTIVE SUBJECT II

In Electives I and II, the master students may choose between the following options:

  • Cooperation and international integration at work. Teacher: Dr. Esteban Actis.
  • Cultural Perspectives of Organizations and Work. Teacher: Dr. Carlos Gomez.
  • Economics of Organizations in the digital transition. Teacher: Dr. José Luis Pellegrini.
  • Employment and Disability Policies. Teachers: Mag. Román Felipelli – Lic. Celeste Arena Videguren.
  • WORKSHOP IV: PROGRESS OF THE THESIS AND FINAL PROJECT II

Teachers: Dr. Juan Diego Vaamonde – Lic. Analía Costa

This Workshop will promote the reading and discussion of progress reports that can account for the formulation of the hypotheses, the scope of the objectives proposed in the project and the possible conclusions or results to be achieved with the investigations.

  1. THESIS OR FINAL PROJECT

The postgraduate career of the Master in Interdisciplinary Studies on Work and Organizations concludes with the presentation of a Thesis or a Project and its oral defense, which will be an original contribution regarding the specific problems that arise in the fields of work and organizations.

Defense is understood as the oral and public instance in which the teacher exposes relevant aspects of the process of elaboration of the Thesis or Final Project and in which he/she can be questioned by the juries in relation to the observations indicated by them. in the prior written opinion that approved the Thesis or Final Project for the defense. The defense will be considered not only in its discursive aspect, but also as an academic rite in which the subject is involved no longer as a student but as a researcher.

The Thesis will be an individual original research work that the teacher will carry out from an interdisciplinary perspective, carrying out a critical study of relevant information regarding the topic or specific problem, with a methodological design that allows a sufficient level of analysis to account for of the proposed objectives and/or hypotheses.

The Final Project consists of an individual proposal for a practical intervention that describes, analyzes and evaluates a problematic situation, an institutional space, a specific action on a delimited context -among other possibilities-. The Final Project will include a descriptive-analytical design of the actions to be carried out based on the proposed objectives, indicating the previous diagnosis, the feasibility conditions and a prospective evaluation of its results, in addition to the critical comment of other projects that have been developed on the same theme, if any.

The approved Theses or Final Projects must be graded conceptually and numerically in accordance with the scale in force in the field of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Unapproved Theses or Final Projects will not be graded, only the reasons for their non-approval will be indicated.


:: REPORTS: meito-cei@unr.edu.ar

Attachments

CONEAU Opinion 2023 – 587