Course description for 2023/24
Management
LED1001
Course description for 2023/24
Management
LED1001
The course introduces various management topics and theories, as well as a thorough discussion of selected key concepts. The course highlights the management of organizations and the relationship to the environment. These processes examined from various angles on the basis of management theories. Introduction to basic ethical theory to illuminate and problematize the concept of social responsibility.
Learning outcomes:
The student should be able to:
Knowledge:
- Explain the importance of and manager responsibility in taking proper decisions on behalf of organizations and their stakeholders, both social and non-social.
- Describe traditional management theories including scientific and administrative management theories, behaviorism, and organizational environment theory.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the newer management perspectives and concepts within ethics, responsibility, sustainability, change and crisis management.
- Identify social, environmental and economic challenges and issues related to management.
- Outline principles of leadership at the individual, group, organizational, inter-organizational and community levels.
Skills:
- Analyze management issues in practical examples and cases, and propose viable solutions.
- Apply relevant theories to interpret practice-relevant issues.
- Find, evaluate, and correctly reference relevant professional literature to support management practices.
- Assess organizational environments in practical examples and recommend management perspectives that enhance organizational outcomes, both individually and in teams.
- Can select and use appropriate management tools to navigate in internal and external organizational environments in practical examples provided by guest lecturers and cases.
General competence:
- Integrate relevant management theories and tools to contextualize and manage complex management issues and situations.
- Communicate central subject matter, including theories, problems, and solutions, effectively in writing, orally, and through digital interactions.
- Demonstrate critical reflection on management practices and theories.
- Engage in discussions with peers to exchange views and contribute to the development of good management practices.
- Plan and execute tasks and assignments related to professional management issues, both independently and in groups.
- Utilize English proficiency to discuss and analyze management topics in an international context.
Paid semester fee and syllabus literature. It is also required that students have a laptop at their disposal.
Compulsory
Lectures, digital learning methods (Smart-book & Interactive tutorials).
The study programme is evaluated annually by students by way of course evaluation studies. These evaluations are included in the university's quality assurance system.
Compound assessment, with the grading scale A-F.
- The course is built on the peer-teaching model. It requires mandatory attendance at a minimum of four peer-teaching sessions, including the session for which your student group is responsible (Assignment 1). This specific session is considered equally important to the exam date, given that the student group receives a grade based on the group’s performance.
Partial Assessments (Contributes 100% of the final grade):
Portfolio (Group) - Contributes 50% of the final grade, graded A-F:
- Assignment 1: Peer-teaching, oral in a group, 25% of final grade, A-F.
- Assignment 2: Applied Management Case, written in the same group, 25% of final grade, A-F.
- Written School Exam (4 hours, individual) - Contributes 50% of the final grade, A-F.
Simple calculator, and bilingual dictionaries.
ORG1001 Organization
Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:
OR225E - Management - 7.5 credits
OR127E - Organisation and Management - 7.5 credits
EK225E-1 - Strategy, Organization and Marketing - 4 credits
ØKO141 - Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management - 2.5 credits
ØKO1421 - Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management and Entrepreneurship - 2.5 credits
LED6002 - Management in Four Perspectives - 5 credits