Study Guide

Objective

You can see the link between strategic management and the organization’s business strategy and leadership.
You can apply different methods of managing and assessing individual and group performance in your supervisory work.
You can identify tasks related to the role of a manager and assess and develop your own skills in managerial work

Content

What are the issues involved in defining strategic goals, policies and action plans?
How are processes and their effectiveness measured?
How does leadership affect the success of an organisation?
What requirements does leadership set to professional competence?
How can the work of a leader and the employees be combined with the goals of the business by using different leadership methods?

Opiskelumateriaali

Materials and tasks in Learn. Recommended books: Varney, S. 2021. Leadership in complexity and change – for a world in constant motion. DeGruyter. and Ashdown, L. 2018. Performance management. Kogan Page.

Yksilölliset oppimisväylät

To be agreed with the teacher.

TKI ja työelämäyhteistyö

Working life cases. The final assignment of the course is done for your own organization.

Tentit ja muut määräajat

There is no exam in the course. The grade is based on the assessed assignments, the return times of which are as follows: Online discussion task, return no later than January 29th, 2024 at 9:00 p.m. Final assignment, return no later than March 10th, 2024 at 9:00 p.m. During the study period, we respect the schedules.

Kansainvälinen yhteistyö

All the materials will be in English.

Opiskelijan työmäärä

5 credits = 133 h of student work. The workload consists of watching videos, reading texts, online discussions and doing assignments.

Toteutuksen osien kuvaus

The study course has no meetings, the study course is completely virtual. Check Learn for instructions on completing the course.

Further information

Additional information: heli.bergstrom@xamk.fi

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Online discussion assignment 30 % of the course grade. Final assignment 70 % of the course grade.