MSLV4500 Leadership in Practice Course description

The course requires management experience. The students will practice approaches and skills that make them better equipped to fulfil the leadership role. Leadership in practice includes leadership characteristics, skills and conduct, communication, cooperation and conflict management, the leader role and leadership as interaction and teambuilding, as well as topics specifically relating to women and leadership.

Knowledge

The student has

• in-depth insight into management theories with particular relevance to the practice of management

• in-depth knowledge of ethical challenges associated with the manager role

• in-depth knowledge of conflict and conflict management

Skills

The student is capable of

• working systematically on their own leadership challenges

• communicating and cooperating in relation to the leadership role

• analysing conflicts and dealing with different types of conflicts

• facilitating learning and teambuilding

Competence

The student is capable of

• applying knowledge and skills to prepare interaction processes with colleagues and other leaders

• communicating about relevant issues and analyses in the leadership field

The course consists of three main components:

• Developing knowledge of leadership

• Greater awareness of the student's own conduct as a leader

• A written assignment on leadership challenges in his/her own work situation

The knowledge part comprises a critical review and discussion of key topics from the syllabus applied in relation to the students' own employment sector.

In the conduct part of the course, each student and a selection of their colleagues will assess the students' leader conduct in their own position. The students will then prioritise work on specific areas they wish to improve. Here the students will partly work in groups of about six persons and with external process supervisors. The students will participate in discussions about each other's leadership challenges.

A significant part of the learning will take place through the students' own experiences and work experience. This will be facilitated through group work, exercises and work-related assignments. Between teaching sessions, the students will receive assignments related to the course activities.

Some parts of the course require active participation. There is therefore a compulsory attendance requirement for these parts. Compulsory attendance is considered a coursework requirement and must be complied with in order to take the exam. Compulsory attendance will be stipulated in more detail at the start of the semester.

The students must also submit an individual written assignment. of 8-12 pages related to their own leadership challenges in order to take the exam (see above). The required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam. If the required coursework submitted is unsatisfactory, an improved version must be submitted within a deadline stipulated by the lecturer.

No aids are permitted for the written exam.

The grade given is Pass/Fail.

External examiners are used in cases of doubt about whether a pass grade should be awarded and for spot check assessments of approx. 25% of the answer papers. Both external and internal examiners can be used for all answer papers if special academic considerations so indicate.