MANAGEMENT

This course provides an introduction to Management. Focusing on Managements’ “why”, “what” and “how” students will learn about key principles and how they evolved. Drawing on relevant social science disciplines and lived experience the course is based on an interdisciplinary framework that provides guidance on how to strengthen organizations in a global environment characterized by competition and cooperation. The aim of this course is to enhance your ability to understand and function effectively in organizations as individuals, as team members, as managers and strategic leaders, and as participants in the global business environment. You will learn about fundamental management and organizational concepts and consider how they can be effectively used in organizations, and you will apply them discussing case studies and experiencing them in practical exercises that illustrate and challenge key ideas.

You learn about management’s key principles its purpose, practice and methods. You will become familiar with the opportunities to enhance organizations’ competitiveness through effective managers. You will experience key challenges that managers face businesses. You will become acquainted with differences between managers, leaders and strategists in their impact on organizations. You learn to see management from a knowledge perspective, apply key practices and processes You will develop skills to manage and lead innovation processes.

We will cover how individuals are motivated in organizations to contribute, how groups and teams drive innovation, how managers relate to employees inside and partners outside organizations, the power-based processes within organizations, and organizational strategy and how it relates to organizational design and culture and individual behavior. From a knowledge perspective you will reflect on AI’s role in the future of management. Your learning experience will be more relevant for practice, if we together experience modules that reflect contemporary issues in management and companies. Therefore, expect flexibility in terms of scope and coverage of basic material to ensure relevance.

Joan Magretta (2002) What Management is, Free Press ISBN: 0743203186

Varied (lectures, discussions, exercises, simulations, projects)

Continuous assessment (30%) Final exam (70%)

Final grade: 27/30