2014/2015 KAN-CCDCO1003U Leading and Managing Projects
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Leading and Managing Projects |
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Language | English |
Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
Type | Mandatory |
Level | Full Degree Master |
Duration | One Quarter |
Course period | Spring, Third Quarter |
Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
Study board |
Study Board for BSc og MSc in Business, Language and Culture,
MSc
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Last updated on 19-08-2014 |
Learning objectives | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
At the end of the course students should be able to: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course prerequisites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bachelor degree. Knowledge of corporate strategy, management theory, and organizational behavior is an advantage, but not a precondition for participation. The course is offered as required component in both the first year of the CMI concentration in Intercultural Management and the first year of Cand. Merc. (Psyk.). It is open to students in other CBS graduate programs, including international students participating in exchange programs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course content and structure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This course will offer the tools necessary to
design, manage and evaluate the complexities involved in projects
by exploring the conceptual foundations for successful project
management in today’s globalized, complex organizations and
societies. We will go beyond simple “how-to” or best practice
approaches to the subject of project management in two respects.
First, we will explore the comparative employment ecologies of
modern organizations in respect to their national origins and
project sites (which may or may not be identical). The motivation
for this comparative study concerns a proper, and properly
critical, appreciation of the Toyota Way - considered an innovative
and instructive approach to project management throughout the
world. Second, in light of the different set and settings of
employment law we will look at the assumptions behind conventional
wisdom on project management.
Participants will consider how to manage uncertainty and risk associated with project work. We will explore how the human elements of power, politics, and interrelationships play into the success and/or failure of projects. The course will explore how concepts and practices introduced in other areas of the CMI curriculum are concretely encountered in project management. Such curriculum related themes include complex organizations, strategy, stakeholders, diversity, culture, geo-political regional differences, and sense making. Analysis of several case studies that evidence both successful and unsuccessful project management will provide students with practical examples of the themes and principles under discussion. In particular cases the management of projects in transnational and intercultural contexts will refine student sensibility in respect to what information case-based studies provide for reflection – and what is left out. Thus, this course aims to help students become reflective and reflexive consumers of project management literature – able to read such material with a proper sense of case literature strengths as well as weaknesses. |
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Teaching methods | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The approach includes traditional readings and
lecture with inductive case reading, reflection, and guided class
discussion, with small-group project reports to focus student
insight for successful grade outcomes. Case discussions will employ
the Harvard Business School style “case method.” Some cases lend
themselves to small-group discussion in advance of a plenary
summation, other benefit from an instructor-guided discussion.
The learning model presumes regular class attendance for appropriate understanding of the course materials and success regarding the learning objectives. Class discuss will depend on student preparation of cases in advance. |
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Expected literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harvard Business School Press, Managing
Projects Large and Small (HBS Press, 2003) 192 pgs.
An Online case pack offered by Harvard Business School Press. |
Last updated on
19-08-2014