Curricula

Objectives

Purpose of the course:
You become familiar with the current phenomenon of leadership, which you apply in practice primarily to develop your own organization and work community or team.

Competencies of the course:
Operating in a wok place
Is able to develop and manage multidisciplinary teams and work communities.
Ethical
Is able to promote ethically sustainable activities and the realisation of ethical reflection in their different operating environments.
Is able to manage societally influential activities based on ethical values.
Sustainable development
Is able to manage the search, implementation and establishment of sustainable solutions and operating models in their work community.
Proactive development
Is able to implement research, development and innovation projects and apply different research and development methods.

Objectives of the course:
You will learn about current phenomena in management from the perspectives of working life and research data.
Plan and/or implement a development project in which you evaluate, renew and develop organizational leadership and management practices. You apply and evaluate theoretical knowledge to solve practical problems and develop an organization, work community or team.
You produce new information on current management phenomena from the perspectives of sustainable development and ethics.

Content

Current phenomena in management

Learning materials and recommended literature

The primary sources are research publications and so-called research publications. Original sources presenting new and current information and organizational documents:
• scientific/academic research articles published in journals and conference papers (peer review)
• review articles presenting and commenting on previous research and published in scientific journals
• academic books, e.g. monographs and collections of articles and textbooks;
• doctoral dissertations and research reports
• high-quality research-based articles in professional journals
• internal documents of the organization

Teaching methods

Study methods
Current phenomena in management is a course implemented in an online learning environment. In the learning environment you will find course instructions, schedules, assignments and study materials. The method is project- and/or challenge-based learning. You will learn to utilize theoretical knowledge to develop organizational practices.
In the Development Report assignment, you do independent information gathering and apply what you have learned by solving a problem or challenge of your chosen organization.

Guidance
You will receive guidance in the learning environment (e.g. question and answer forum) and webinars.

Feedback
You will receive both qualitative and quantitative evaluation and feedback on your Development Report learning assignment.
You give feedback on the course (mid-term and final feedback on the implementation).

Practical training and working life connections

The development work is targeted at the selected organisation. Cooperation with working life is promoted by sharing learning communally.

International connections

During the course, you will utilise international research literature.

Alternative completion methods

You can familiarise yourself with 17§ of Jamk's degree regulations when con-sidering the recognition and recognition of course competence based on your previously acquired competence and the objectives of the course.

Student workload

Your indicative use of time during the 5-credit course is 135 working hours, which is divided as follows:

Orientation to the course 6 h
Studying with learning materials 52 h
Completing learning assignments 68 h
Online lectures and webinars 6 h
Self-assessment and feedback 3 h

Content scheduling

Theoretical part of the development report 2,0 ECTS credits
Practical part of the development report 2,0 ECTS credits
Completion of the development report 1,0 ECTS credits

Further information for students

Formative and summative evaluation

Evaluation scale

0-5

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Adequate 1
You will compile the refernce material from a few key research articles and non-fiction books suitable for the phenomenon. You identify and define key concepts. You summarize the essential theory of the topic/phenomenon, the connection of which to the research task is partly inadequate. You show responsibility for making a project plan that targets your team or work group. You outline a development project plan in which you have defined key contents. You demonstrate your competence by presenting the key potential results of the plan and consider their impact on leadership development. You're writing unstructured text with a variety of repetitive language and style errors. You follow the reporting instructions inadequately.

Satisfactory 2
You are able to acquire reference material from key research articles and non-fiction books suitable for the phenomenon. You mainly use original sources. You classify key concepts. You compile a knowledge base from references that support the topic and phenomenon. Theoretical knowledge does not discuss between references. You show responsibility for making a project plan in your organization or work community. You write a feasible time-bound development project plan with a clear structure. You demonstrate your competence by illustrating the potential results of the plan. You reflect on the significance of the plan and its results and their impact on leadership development and the result of the organization. You also reflect the topic from an ethical point of view. You're writing partially unstructured text with various language and style errors.

Evaluation criteria, good (3-4)

Good 3
You are able to acquire and evaluate reference material from several original research articles and academic books suitable for the phenomenon. You distinguish key concepts in relation to each other. You write a relevant knowledge base that is delineated from the point of view of the topic and the phenomenon being discussed. You demonstrate responsibility for the implementation of the development project in your own team or group. You lead a goal-oriented development project in which you apply research and development methods. You develop the organization's operations by finding solution options. You demonstrate your expertise by justifying the objectives of the development task and applying its key results. There is a connection between the results and the theory, which has been proven. You are able to promote ethically sustainable activities for a selected target group. You write consistently, reasonedly and graphically. You write structured text with occasional language style errors. You follow the reporting guidelines.

Very good 4
You are able to acquire and critically evaluate reference material from several diverse, topical, reliable, relevant and original research articles and other high-quality works suitable for the phenomenon. You analyse, compare and summarize key concepts. You write an essential and limited scientific knowledge base for the subject area, in which you demonstrate the ability to follow, specify and analyse the research data of the topic/phenomenon. You demonstrate responsibility for the implementation of a development project in your organisation or work community. You lead a goal-oriented development project in which you apply an appropriate research and development method. You develop the operations of the organization successfully. The results are demonstrated and justified. You demonstrate your expertise by justifying, analysing and reflecting on the objectives and results of research. In the report, you present a synthesis of the results and consider their applicability. You produce new, applied information on current management phenomena from the perspectives of sustainable development and ethics for the organization, and demonstrate its relevance. You write structured text in a fluent and almost error-free factual style.

Evaluation criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent 5
With your broad, critically evaluated and high-quality choice of references, you demonstrate your familiarity with the topic and competence in the field of science. You evaluate the key concepts of the phenomenon critically and present them visually. You demonstrate a critical ability to follow and interpret international research data in the knowledge base. You reflect on the topic on a societal level. In your development project, you demonstrate development responsibility for accumulating new knowledge and practices in your own professional field and the organization's goal-oriented learning. You examine the societal significance of development. You will lead a development project in which you produce and analyse new information and renew operating methods in the changing operating environment of your field. You utilise the methods of development activities and demonstrate creative thinking. The solutions you find match the goals you set. You demonstrate your expertise by justifying, analyzing, evaluating and reflecting on the objectives and results of research as well as practical proposals for action. You present new perspectives and/or insights in the report. You critically examine the key results of arguing in relation to theory and prior knowledge. You produce new information on current management phenomena from the perspectives of sustainable development and ethics, renew operating methods and comprehensively consider the societal significance of results. You write convincingly, presenting a clear, logically progressing whole in which you combine things in a new way. You demonstrate critical and argumentative ability to write.