Study Guide

Objective

To enhance the student’s understanding of the different tasks and challenges in industrial management and leadership. Leadership is multi-faceted and here focus is on human resource management (HRM), change management and the handling of conflicts. The course provides the student with a broader understanding of the roles and responsibilities in personal leadership on different management levels as well as strategic leadership.

Content

Framing the field of leadership. Basics in HRM, fundamentals of leadership and organizational knowledge transfer. Personnel rewards, appraisals, mentoring, coaching and advanced business development issues. Corporate responsibility and business ethics related to different management levels. Change management associated with growth, but also downsizing and restructuring businesses in economic crises. Crisis management. Health, safety and environmental issues in everyday leadership.

Qualifications

No prerequisites

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

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

Assessment criteria, good (3)

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

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

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

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

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

Materials

Literature:
To be informed later or please have a look at the course implementation