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The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge
about the managerial challenges in contemporary work-life. The main
thesis put forward in the course is that these managerial
challenges can be framed as a question of how to manage
self-managing employees. In a broad sense, self-management require
that employees think, feel and act in ways that contribute to the
realization and improvement of the individual worker, but only
insofar as they concomitantly anticipate and contribute to the
various needs of the organization. However this creates new
challenges for employees and managers alike. The course will
confront these (self-)-managerial challenges along four empirical
cases with the following themes: performance management, employee
commitment, professionalism and work-life balance/stress. The
student will learn to analyze and understand these cases and their
related themes in light of various primarily philosophical concepts
such as freedom, craftsmanship, cynicism, ideology and desire. All
in an effort to understand the managerial opportunities’ and
challenges self-managing employees brings about in contemporary
work-life.
COURSE OUTLINE
Week I: Management of self-management
Week II: Performance Management and freedom
Week III: Professionalism and craftsmanship
Week IV: Commitment and cynicism
Week V: Work-life balance, stress and
desire
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