Strategic Management and the Future of Leadership (5 cr)

Objective

The student is able to develop skills of self-management and learn how to manage organizations strategically. Create and manage a psychologically safe and sustainable working culture.

Content

• Reflective mindset and self-management
• The principles of strategically leading and managing organizations
• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) leadership practices
• Change management
• Collaboration, networking and teamwork, conflict resolution

Location and time

All webinars are on Zoom

Tu 17.9 16.15-18.15
Tu 25.9 16.15-18.15
Tu 1.10 16.15-18.15
We 8.10 16.15-18.15

Materials

Cleland Silva, T., & de Tarso Fonseca Silva, P. (2022). Making Sense of Work Through Collaborative Storytelling: Building Narratives in Organisational Change.

Cleland Silva, T., Sorsa, V., Hyytiäinen, S., & Ylä-Soininmäki-Pyöriä, M. (2023). Co-designing a digital healthcare platform with metaphor: the case of the Brain House for the Health Village. puntOorg International Journal, 8(2).

Drucker, P. (2005) Managing oneself. Harvard Business Review.

Ferlie, E., Montgomery, K., & Pedersen, A. R. (Eds.). (2016). The Oxford Handbook of health care management. Oxford University Press.

Khilji, S. E., & List, C. E. (2021). Humanizing to address the grand challenge of rising inequalities: Leadership in a post-COVID world. Academia Letters, 2.

Mintzberg, H. (2013). Simply managing: What managers do—and can do better. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Mintzberg, H. (2018). Managing the myths of health care. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Raelin, J. A. (2020). In leadership, look to the practices not to the individual. Academia Letters Article, 34.

Teaching methods

Learning outcomes

The student is able to develop skills of self-management and learn how to manage organizations strategically. Create and manage a psychologically safe and sustainable working culture.

Content

Reflective mindset and self-management

The principles of strategically leading and managing organizations

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) leadership practices

Change management

Collaboration, networking and teamwork, conflict resolution

Student workload

135 hours: 8 hours of live webinars and interactive activities, plus 127 hours of dedicated reading, independent study and online weekly quizzes.

Independent study and weekly online quizzes based on learning materials (60%)
Active participation in the webinars (minimum 3 of 4 webinars) (40%)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student demonstrates competence in the basic content of the course, but there are deficiencies in his/her ability to find and interpret information and to apply the learned content to the context of working life.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student demonstrates good competence in the content of the course. He/she is able to actively search for information and to identify its connection to working life. The student is able to analyse and apply the learned content to the context of working life.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student demonstrates versatile and extensive competence in the content of the course. He/she has an excellent ability to search for relevant information. The student’s solutions demonstrate independence, responsibility, and skills in guiding others. His/her ability to apply the learned content to the context of working life exhibits creativity and versatility.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Fail:
The student does not demonstrate competence in the basic content of the course and there are deficiencies in his/her ability to find and interpret information and to apply the learned content to the context of working life.