The course covers lecturers, group exercises, the seminar “mark with cross”, one home task that should be presented both in writing and oral and theoretical studies. Active participation is expected in all activities.
The course is divided into three blocks:
Block one is focusing on the dyadic and group dynamic leadership
Block two manage leadership in four different perspectives; power & motivation, stress & handling conflicts, ethics, gender.
Block three lifts the leadership into a strategic level.
The aim of the course in leadership is to prepare the student for a role as a leader in working life with special attention to technical based businesses of e.g. production, projects, development, operations and service.
After the course, the student should be able to:
Apply basic theory of leadership and human relations in an organizational context:
- Explain and differentiate between the perspectives of leadership behavior, contingency theories of leadership and managerial traits and skills.
- Explain how leadership can be described as an individual, dyadic, group, or organizational process and describe effective leadership in these processes
- Describe different specific leader behaviors and give examples of situations where these are effective
- Explain what effects the following perspectives has on leadership; power & motivation, stress & handling conflicts, ethics and creativity and gender.
- Criticize the area of leadership theory by comparing different theories with own and others experiences of leadership.
- Read and explain ones own behaviors in the following situations:
1. Processes of group dynamics
2. To lead/manage
3. To follow
