Leadership and management (5 cr)

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?

Course material

Materials and tasks in Learn.

Study forms and methods

To be agreed with the teacher in the beginning of the course.

RDI and work-related cooperation

The learning tasks of the course support the development of students' work-life skills and the sharing of best practices in first-line leadership.

Timing of exams and assignments

There are three individual assignments. Instructions and schedules for them are given in the beginning of the course.

Student workload

135 h of student work.

Course part description

Online course schedules per topic as well as meeting schedules are instructed in Learn.

Evaluation scale

1-5