Organization and Leadership

OR301S

The increasing importance assigned to leadership 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 limited space for managerial steering (bureaucratic and professional organizations). At the same time, enactment of the leader role appears more complex due to multiple and inconsistent goals, as well as employees who are more demanding with regards 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
Gender, diversity and leadership
Management, conflicts and conflict resolution
Leadership, strategy and sustainability

Applicants must either fulfill one of the following criteria in order to qualify for admission to the course:

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.

The student who has completed the course should have the following learning outcomes:

Knowledge

Be able to document insight into the research literature on leadership and on the design of the leadership role in different organizational contexts
Be able to apply different interpretive frameworks in reflected discussions of academically relevant issues in an independent way

Skills

Be able to identify different theories of leadership and demonstrate skills in analytical problem solving related to leadership in different organizational contexts
Be able to be critical of theories about management and apply the knowledge to formulate a problem and carry out independent work

General competence

Be able to reflect critically on dilemmas and tensions that arise from exercising leadership
Be able to document theoretical knowledge in management, and apply different interpretive frameworks to identify challenges that managers face
Be able to communicate about professional issues to relevant partners, users and the general public

No costs except semester registration fee and course literature

Compulsory for Master in HRM.

Gatherings. Lectures and seminars: A combination of lectures and work with assignments. We seek to involve students in their own learning. 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. Students may use what they learn about this organization, in combination with available information, as empirical resources for their reflections in the examination.

Annual evaluations which are included in the university\'s quality assurance system

Compound assessement:

Assessement task (AK), 0/100 of final grade. Pass or fail
Off-campus exam (HJ): 28 days. 100/100 of final grade. A-F

Pencil, pen, ruler, simple calculator and Dictionary.

N/A

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

Curriculum literature

Leganto

Course language

Norwegian

Credits

Bodø

Responsible faculty

Faculty of Social Sciences

Course coordinator

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