Management and workplace skills (5 cr)

Objective

You are able to lead yourself, develop you self-leadership and your competences as a responsible member of your work communiy.
You are able to analyze and develop work community collaboration by means of solution-oriented approaches.
You are able to apply leadership models in an appropriate way.
You are able to act as a leader in workplace situations typically encountered by supervisors.

Content

How do you lead yourself?
How do you identify various roles, behavior patterns and phenomena in work communities?
How do you communicate and act as a responsible member of a work community and lead it?
How do you apply leadership models in various types of organisations?
How do you develop work community collaboration in a goal-oriented way?
How do you act as a leader and supervisor in changing working life environments?

Course material

The materials are provided mostly on the Learn platform. (Xamk learning environment)

Study forms and methods

The course can be completed independently on a potentially shorter timetable.
Always contact the teacher in the beginning of the course, if this is the case.

The course contents mostly independent, but also interactive student work.

RDI and work-related cooperation

Work-based learning assignments.

Timing of exams and assignments

The course is completed through assignments. There is no exams.

Student workload

Total of 135 hours of student work.

Course part description

Main sections are:
Self-leadership
Management theories and styles
Workplace skills
Tasks and tools for management work
Managers and staff in a changing working life

Further information

The following online-meetings are scheduled as teams-meetings.
The links to these meetings are provided in Learn:
14.1.2025 Introduction to the topic & course
12.2.2025 Q&A-session 1
8.4.2025 Q&A-session 2

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

The grading scale is 1-5.