Study Guide

Objective

The objective of the course:
This course concentrates on people management and leadership issues, from the perspective of sustainable and responsible management. Management is in transition and it requires navigation in a complex global operating environment. What is sustainable leadership? What does sustainability mean in people management? How do organizations address sustainable development goals through effective leadership?
The course introduces approaches and theories to develop management and leadership skills and approaches that contribute to innovation, trust, sharing, and wellbeing at work. It addresses also personal leadership skills and their development, especially with dialogical and inclusive perspectives.

Learning Objective 1
The student learns the constructs of sustainable leadership and can recognize the difference between managerial and leadership action. The student is familiar with how her / his own personal action and communication frame leadership in a given context. The student understands the basic psychological concepts linked to servant and shared leadership and their effect on creating a sustainable organization.

Learning Objective 2
The student can analyze and discuss the relevant leadership and management approaches from an organizational perspective in real-life contexts that are linked to challenges in sustainability. The student has the ability to discuss and elaborate a personally relevant people management challenge and has the ability to present analysis, synthesis, and justified solutions to this challenge, also with the understanding of sustainability issues.

Content

Key content areas:
• Transition in management paradigms towards sustainable leadership
• Leadership as a systemic and dialogical practice
• Work identities at modern workplaces
• Self-management, compassion and pro-social action in management
• Shared and servant leadership
• Trust and psychological safety at work
• Ethics and responsibility in people management
• Handling conflict and paradoxes at work
• Wellbeing at work, especially in the times of distant work

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Sufficient (1) and Satisfactory (2)
Participating in the online and contact lessons returned tasks.

LO1:Able to address some relevant concepts and their origins. Able to present relevant information on these concepts and difference between management and leadership.

LO2: Able to present a relevant people management challenge and a little of how to solve it.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good (3) and Very good (4)
Active participation in the online and in the contact lessons returned tasks with good outcomes.

(all the previous and)
LO1: Able to choose and justify relevant concepts and theories to this given task. Able to link some of the concepts to own personal leadership issues.

LO2: Able to present the challenge in real-life context. Able to critically discuss the problematics of solving the challenge.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent (5)
Very active participation in the online and in the contact lessons, returned tasks with excellent outcomes.

(all the previous and)

LO1: Able to apply various concepts and combine them meaningfully to improve personal learning on leadership. Has presented reliable sources for reporting on this learning.

LO2: Able to present an innovative and personally grounded approaches on solving the challenge so that academic sources have been synthesised with elements from organisational reality to create solution(s).

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Evaluation:
Numerical for PASS from 1 to 5 and
0 for FAIL: No participation in the online and in the contact lessons, no returned tasks.

Qualifications

No prerequisites