MSL4101 Organization, Management and Change in the Public Sector Course description

Emnet omfatter teorier og modeller for analyse av ledelse, organisasjoner og organisasjonsendring med vekt på offentlige virksomheter. Det fokuserer på nasjonale og internasjonale drivkrefter og forutsetninger for endring, effektivisering og omstilling, samt på endringsprosesser og -strategier. Emnet har en virkemiddelorientert tilnærming til organisasjon og ledelse.

Coursework requirements from MALK4000-401 and MALK4000-403 must be approved to participate and submit coursework requirements in MALKA211.

On successful completion of the course, the student has the following learning outcomes classified as knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student

• can describe and discuss characteristics of behavior analysis as a science
• can identify core concepts and relations concerning respondent and operant conditioning
• can describe and exemplify different measures of reliability
• can describe different methods of observation and recording of behavior, and choose the appropriate methods in different settings

Skills

The student

• can observe and measure behavior

Competence

The student

• can explain core concepts in behavior analysis to the Public
• can understand important aspects of behavior analysis as a science

Teaching and learning methods include lectures, exercises, student presentations and discussion of course readings. The lectures will partly be based on interteaching sequences using literature from the curriculum.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• 3 individual written assignments, each with maximum 6000 keystrokes

Individual written examination with invigilation, 4 hours. Exam questions are in English. Students may submit their exams in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.

None

Grade scale A-F

One internal and one external examiner will assess all exams.

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