Organization and Leadership
The importance assigned to leadership in the wake of new ideological currencies stands at the forefront of this course. Active leadership is expected, even in organizations which traditionally give limited space for leadership (e.g. professional bureaucracies and expert organizations). At the same time, the enactment of leadership appears more complex due to multiple and inconsistent goals, as well as employees demanding tailored job design and co-determination. Tensions and dilemmas pertaining to these changes, and how leaders try to handle them are central topics focused on in this course. Important topics are:
- New managerial regimes and their impact on professional organizations
- Leadership as something innate, learned or situationally adaptive
- Possibilities and limitation of leadership in service-providing public organizations
- Gender, diversity and leadership
- Leadership, conflicts and conflict resolution
- Leadership, strategy and sustainability
Applicants must fulfill the following criteria in order to qualify for admission to the course:
Bachelor degree of 3 years' duration (180 ECTS), equivalent to a Norwegian Bachelor degree, with an average grade of C, and a minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience.
The student who has completed the course should have the following learning outcomes:
Knowledge
- Be able to document insight into the research literature on leadership and on the design of the leadership role in different organizational contexts
- Be able to apply different interpretive frameworks in reflected discussions of academically relevant issues in an independent way
Skills
- Be able to identify different theories of leadership and demonstrate skills in analytical problem solving related to leadership in different organizational contexts
- Be able to be critical of theories about management and apply the knowledge to formulate a problem and carry out independent work
General competence
- Be able to reflect critically on dilemmas and tensions that arise from exercising leadership
- Be able to document theoretical knowledge in management, and apply different interpretive frameworks to identify challenges that managers face
- Be able to communicate about professional issues to relevant partners, users and the general public
Compound assessement:
- Assessement task (AK), 0/100 of final grade. Pass or fail
- Off-campus exam (HJ): 14 days or more. 100/100 of final grade. A-F
