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2025/2026  MA-MMBDO1022U  Performance Management

English Title
Performance Management

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 5 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
Min. participants 10
Max. participants 30
Study board
Study Board for Master i forretningsudvikling
Programme Master of Business Development
Course coordinator
  • Allan Hansen - Department of Operations Management (OM)
  • Ivar Friis - Department of Operations Management (OM)
Main academic disciplines
  • Management
  • Organisational behaviour
Teaching methods
  • Face-to-face teaching
Last updated on 02-07-2025

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Learning objectives
  • Describe and explain the course's theoretical concepts and models that are relevant for understanding and analyzing performance management design and the design's implications for organizational efficiency.
  • Use the theoretical concepts and models to explain and analyze design problems in practice and to set up specific design solutions
  • Critically reflect on the course's theoretical concepts and models' role and limitations in relation to understanding performance management and organizational efficiency and explain how they in combination constitute a broader interdisciplinary theorizing of performance management
Course prerequisites
Anyone interested in understanding the opportunities and challenges of Performance Management. The course appeals both to those who have worked with Performance Management for several years and who want to gain perspective on what they do, but also to those who want an introduction to what Performance Management holds.
Examination
Performance Management:
Exam ECTS 5
Examination form Oral exam based on written product

In order to participate in the oral exam, the written product must be handed in before the oral exam; by the set deadline. The grade is based on an overall assessment of the written product and the individual oral performance, see also the rules about examination forms in the programme regulations.
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Size of written product Max. 5 pages
Assignment type Synopsis
Release of assignment An assigned subject is released in class
Duration
Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
20 min. per student, including examiners' discussion of grade, and informing plus explaining the grade
Grading scale 7-point grading scale
Examiner(s) Internal examiner and second internal examiner
Exam period Summer and Winter
Make-up exam/re-exam Home assignment - written product
Size of written product: Max. 10 pages
Assignment type: Written assignment
Release of assignment: An assigned subject is released in class
Duration: Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
Course content, structure and pedagogical approach

Learn to understand both the "hard" and the "soft" part of Performance Management. We use an interdisciplinary analysis framework that includes economics, psychology and sociology. An analysis framework that enables you to think together and develop different parts of an organization's goal management, evaluation practices and reward strategies.

 

You’ll learn what the new ideas about performance management contain, and how the balances between performance and development, the forward-looking and backward-looking and the quantitative and qualitative become crucial design choices for value creation in the individual organization.
Research-based teaching
CBS’ programmes and teaching are research-based. The following types of research-based knowledge and research-like activities are included in this course:
Research-based knowledge
  • Classic and basic theory
  • New theory
  • Teacher’s own research
Research-like activities
  • Data collection
  • Analysis
  • Discussion, critical reflection, modelling
  • Peer review including Peer-to-peer
Description of the teaching methods
The subject combines a number of pedagogical tools. In addition to dialogue-based lectures, there will be cases and presentations from the students, where we (teachers and students) jointly discuss possible solutions to the students' practical problems.
Feedback during the teaching period
Opportunity for feedback in teaching.
Student workload
Preparation and Exam 118 hours
Teaching 32 hours
Last updated on 02-07-2025