Managing Information: Technology and Systems

Module code: MN7510

This is not a computer science module nor is it primarily about the technicalities of information technology. Instead, it provide a conceptual foundation for the consideration of informational practices within modern organisations. It does not provide a toolkit for either systems use or design.

Topics covered

• Management, information and the labour process 
• Psychological and organisational implications of technology
• Information, representation and organisation
• Technology and perception: modelling the social world
• Speaking for information systems: analysing and prescribing material information
• Representation and simulation
• New management practices: empowerment, information and control
• The virtual organisation?
• Managing technological change