Jan Moren

Norwegian version of this page Department of Welfare, Management and Organisation
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Norwegian version of this page Position
Associate Professor
Contact
+4769608319
+4747884797
Study place
Halden
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Academic interests

 

My academic interests and research areas exist at the intersection between political science, organizational theory, political theory, working life studies and public policy and administration. I am also a member of the research group CC: PPO (Complex Connections: People, Places and Organizations). Some key words that capture my research and my professional interests are:

  • Organization theory and decision theory
  • Public sector reforms
  • The relationship between politics and administration, and how organization affects this relationship.
  • Institutional theory: What role does institutional design play in the relationship between stability and change in organizations and society?
  • The normative basis for democracy and the public sector
  • The importance of technology for organizations' structures and functioning
  • Popular management ideas: Where do they come from, how do they spread, how are they implemented, and what effects do they have?
  • Organizational hypocricy and loose couplings: How talk, decision and action are linked and not linked in organizations
  • Organizational Misbehaviour

Teaching and Supervision

I am responsible for our master in organization and leadership. I teach "Introduction to Organizational Theory", "Myths and Fashions in Organizations", "Decision Theory", "Digitization of Working Life", "Democracy: Ideas and Institutions" and "The Dark Side of Organizations". I supervise master students in a wide range of subject areas connected to my teaching and research. I am also a co-supervisor for our two Ph.D. students, who are admitted to the Department of Work Science at the University of Karlstad.

Research

In May 2022 I contributed to the Swedish edited anthology Framtidens arbetsliv (Working life in the future) with the chapter "Intet nytt under solen? Ledarskap i ett komplext, sammansatt och varierat arbetsliv" ("Nothing new under the sun? Leadership in a diverse, complex and varied working life"). For the time being I'm working on a paper with the title "Alexis deTocqueville as an organisation theorist", combining my interests in political theory and organisation theory. The point is to show how many of deTocquevilles observations on the french revolution and early democracy in USA foreshadowed and indirectly contributed to the emergence of organisation theory as we understand it today.      

Awards

As a young university lecturer, I received the "Pedagogical Prize" at Molde University College in 1998

Partners

Karlstad University, University of Oslo, Innlandet University College and VID University College.

I am also a deputy representative for Forskerforbundet at HVO, a deputy member of the Appointments Committee for the university college, and a member of the Culture and Welfare Committee for the Remmen campus. In addition, I am responsible for Gilda film club.

Publications

  • Moren, Jan (2008). Medbestemmelse, demokratiteori og arbeidslivsforskning, Perspektiv på arbetsvetenskapens klassiker. Institutionen för arbetsvetenskap, Göteborgs Universitet. p. 86–103.
  • Moren, Jan (2001). Makt og utdanning . In Tranøy, Bent Sofus & Østerud, Øyvind (Ed.), Den fragmenterte staten : reformer, makt og styring. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISSN 978-82-05-28116-5.

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  • Moren, Jan (2023). Organisasjoner, endring og ledelse i vår tid - Foredrag for biskop og proster i Borg bispedømme.
  • Moren, Jan (2023). Ledelse: Hva, hvorfor og hvordan - et skråblikk.
  • Moren, Jan (2023). Rekruttering til vitenskapelige stillinger.
  • Moren, Jan (2022). Framtidens arbeidsliv - arbeidsvilkår og arbeidsmiljø.
  • Moren, Jan (2022). Organisasatorisk ulydighet. Noe for Høgskolen i Østfold?
  • Moren, Jan (2022). "Inget nytt under solen? Ledarskap i et sammansatt, komplext och varierat arbetsliv", Framtidens arbetsliv - arbetsvilkor och arbetsmiljö. Studentlitteratur AB. ISSN 978-91-44-15310-0. p. 91–111.
  • Moren, Jan (2019). Philip Selznicks "Leadership in Administration - Hva kan avdeling ØSS lære av en organisasjonssosiologisk klassiker fra 1957" .
  • Moren, Jan (2018). Om å skrive masteravhandling i organisasjon og ledelse - Hvordan tenker sensor? .
  • Moren, Jan (2018). Hvordan styre fagfolk ? En omarbeidet utgave presentert på NEON konferansen.
  • Moren, Jan (2017). "Hvordan styre fagfolk? Et innspill om ny-taylorisme, tellekanter og akademia».
  • Moren, Jan (2017). "Hvordan styre fagfolk - noen ideer fra organisasjonsforskningen".
  • Moren, Jan (2016). Masteroppgaven fra sensors perspektiv.
  • Moren, Jan (2016). Endringer og reformer i offentlig sektor.
  • Moren, Jan & Persson, Mats (2016). Early draft: Decision-logics in the pre-merger phase of an attempted higher education merger.
  • Moren, Jan & Persson, Mats (2016). To merge or not to merge: Decision-making in an attemted higher education merger.
  • Moren, Jan & Persson, Mats (2016). Decision-making in the pre-merger phase of an attemted higher education merger.
  • Persson, Mats & Moren, Jan (2016). Decision-making in the pre-merger phase of an attempted higher education merger.
  • Persson, Mats & Moren, Jan (2015). Decision making in an attempted higher education merger.
  • Moren, Jan (2014). «Kvalitetsreformen: En analyse av en reforms bruk av språk og symboler».
  • Ese, Jo; Moren, Jan & Persson, Mats (2013). Organisatoriske endringer i norsk høyere utdanning. Sesjon på den 10. NEON-konferansen i Bergen (abstract).
  • Persson, Mats; Ese, Jo & Moren, Jan (2013). Organisatoriske endringer i norsk høyere utdanning.
  • Moren, Jan (2011). Om reformer: en studie av Kvalitetsreformen, Politireform 2000 og Kunnskapsløftet. Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för ekonomi, kommunikation och IT, Arbetsvetenskap. ISSN 978-91-7063-356-0.
  • Moren, Jan (1999). De nasjonale strategier : en presentasjon. Høgskolen i Molde. ISSN 82-7962-005-2.

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Published June 12, 2018 4:30 PM - Last modified May 15, 2022 3:06 PM