Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester

  
Degree programme:Bachelor International Business Full-time
Type of degree:FH Bachelor´s Degree Programme
 Full-time
 Winter Semester 2023
  

Course unit titleLeadership
Course unit code025017051423
Language of instructionEnglish
Type of course unit (compulsory, optional)Compulsory optional
Semester when the course unit is deliveredWinter Semester 2023
Teaching hours per week2
Year of study2023
Level of course unit (e.g. first, second or third cycle)First Cycle (Bachelor)
Number of ECTS credits allocated3
Name of lecturer(s)Charlotta EDLUND


Prerequisites and co-requisites

None

Course content
  • Leadership skills, traits, styles and approaches
  • Various leadership models
  • Power, influence and charisma
  • Gender, diversity and culture in leadership
  • Sustainability and ethics in organizations and leadership
  • The future of leadership
Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Students know topical and contemporary leadership models and styles and can describe necessary leadership skills. They know essential management tasks and possible dilemmas that can derive from it.

 

Comprehension

They understand the interdependency between leaders and followers and understand leadership as a social interaction.

 

Application

Students apply management tools in various simulated situations and reflect on their effect.

 

Analysis

Students are aware of their own personal values, their own image of human nature and leadership principles and are able to express them in the analysis of case studies.

 

Synthesis

Students create and justify a leadership situation according to understandable and theoretical management guidelines.

 

Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, workshop, discussions, case studies, simulation, presentations
Assessment methods and criteria
  • 15 % Pre-assignment (written individual)
  • 30 % Case analysis in - Written paper and classroom activity (group work) – two cases will be taught in class, activity in case discussion and hand in 300 word written analysis before class discussions
  • 25 % Workshop (group work) - full day of workshop activities including research and presentations
  • 15 % Online exam (individual)
  • 15 % Attendance and activity in classroom (individual) - presence and activity

All 100% weighed together as one final mark
(note a minimum of 50% attendance is required to be able to reach a passing grade on the course)

 

Comment

Information about the course will be available in ILIAS about two months before the start of the course module.

Recommended or required reading
  • Shackleton, V. J. (1995). Business leadership. Thomson Learning.
    ISBN-10: 1861529759
  • Lecture slides/notes (to be found in ILIAS)
  • HBR and Scientific Journal Articles (to be found in ILIAS)
Mode of delivery (face-to-face, distance learning)

Blended: ILIAS and Face-to-face instruction with mandatory attendance

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