Course description for 2019/20
Organization and Leadership
OR301S
Course description for 2019/20
Organization and Leadership
OR301S
The increasing importance of the role of leader in the wake of new ideological currencies and the implementation of new management instruments stands at the forefront of this course. Active leadership is expected, even in organizations which traditionally gives a limited space for managerial steering (bureaucratic and professional organizations). At the same time, enactment of the leader role appears more complex due to different and inconsistent goals, as well as employees who are more demanding with regard to job design and co-determination. Tensions and dilemmas pertaining to these changes, and how leaders try to handle these are central topics focused on in this course. Important topics are:
- New control/management regimes and professional organizations
- Leadership as something innate, learned or adaptive
- Possibilities and limitation of managerial steering in service-providing organizations
- Management, conflicts and the handling of conflicts
- Leadership, strategy and innovations
Applicants must either fulfill one of the following criteria in order to qualify for admission to the course:
- Relevant Bachelor's Degree with an average grade C or better which could qualify for admission to Master in Social Science (Norwegian version)
- 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.
Knowledge and understanding
- Upon successful completion of the course the student should be able to document knowledge in the research literature referring to the designing of the role as manager in different organizational contexts
Skills
- Display skills in approaching problems pertaining to leadership in an analytical way
General competence
- Reflect critically about dilemmas and tensions occurring when performing the role as a leader
No costs except semester registration fee and course literature
Compulsory for Master in HRM and elective for the Master in Social Science
One week intensive teaching. Lectures and seminars: A combination of lectures and work with an examination paper (essay). We seek to involve students in their own learning. This applies to for instance the designing of their examination papers. Moreover, leaders in charge of a selected case organization are invited to the University, with the purpose of telling which kind of problems and challenges they have to deal with in everyday life, and to answer questions from the students. Usually, most of the students use what they learn about this organization, in combination with available information, as empirical resources for their reflections in the examination paper.
Annual evaluations which are included in the university\'s quality assurance system
The examination consists of one assignment. The students themselves chooses the topic and the research question. There will be given academic supervision on the assignment during the week with session-based teaching. The exam can be written in either Norwegian or English.
Pencil, pen, ruler, simple calculator and Dictionary.
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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:
OR301S-001 - Organization and Leadership - 5 credits
OR301S-002 - Organization and Leadership - 5 credits