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2022/2023  MA-MMBAO4031U  Leadership Territories

English Title
Leadership Territories

Course information

Language English
Course ECTS 3 ECTS
Type Mandatory
Level Part Time Master
Duration One Semester
Start time of the course Spring, Autumn
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for Master of Business Administration
Course coordinator
  • Jesper Rangvid - Department of Finance (FI)
Main academic disciplines
  • Management
  • Leadership
Teaching methods
  • Face-to-face teaching
Last updated on 29-06-2022

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Learning objectives
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the course, the participant should be able to:
  • Describe a practical leadership challenge in own organization and your own role in relation to the challenge
  • Reflect on the capacities of your system to engage with the current main challenge
  • Describe actions taken to explore and develop relational network surrounding the challenge
  • Utilize concepts and models from the course literature to reflect on the state of the system, your actions to explore and develop it, and your own role in relation to the challenge.
Examination
Leadership Territories:
Exam ECTS 3
Examination form Home assignment - written product
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Size of written product Max. 10 pages
Assignment type Project
Duration Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
Grading scale Pass / Fail
Examiner(s) One internal examiner
Exam period Winter
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
New assignment, but same framework.
Improvement of assignment
Course content, structure and pedagogical approach

The world of business and organizations is increasingly complex and rapidly shifting. Political crises, climate crises, development of new and disruptive technologies, and rapid market changes are just a few of the types of environmental challenges facing many organizations. In response, and at times proactively to exploit new opportunities, organizations need to adapt, to change structures, processes, practice and technologies. This calls for leadership, that is, the process of mobilizing a collective to pursue collectively relevant goals. Such leadership demands capacities to be perceptive of challenges and opportunities even if signs are weak; to challenge the taken for granted stories and descriptions of the organization and the environment; and to mobilize others even though this might be risky and demanding.

 

In this course, we focus on the capacity to observe, reflect on, and develop one’s own understanding and framing of a situation, as well as the capacity to enable a collective to similarly explore the current situation. Rather than to immediately act and rush forward with hasty solutions, trying to force through changes, we develop the capacity to slow down and explore a complex situation, including one’s own closest collaborators or team, and to develop the capacity in this system to engage in adaptive changes. We draw on academic texts exploring the relational and contextual aspects of leadership, and utilize theoretical concepts and models to challenge one’s own thinking about leadership, about the organization, and about one’s own role in the challenge. Throughout the course, you explore your system and situation through a range of actions and exercises, performed in your own organization, with the aim of widen your understanding of the phenomenon of leadership as well as deepen your understanding of your own situation.

 

Description of the teaching methods
The course is structured in 8 sessions where each session is focusing on a specific topic. Also, the course has diverse teaching methods using lectures, cases, reading and discussions. The class meetings are interactive and require ongoing engagement of the students.
Feedback during the teaching period
The Feedback: Feedback is given to the student together with the grade when the exam has been assessed.
The Evaluation: At the evaluation unit at CBS’s Economics & Analysis department, we ask you to evaluate the overall course. In other words, if there has been exercise classes and lectures, the evaluation should include both. We evaluate every course and faculty to secure and strengthen the professional level of the offered course.
Student workload
Lectures 32 hours
Preparation + exam 50,5 hours
Last updated on 29-06-2022