Educate students in the leading areas of theory and practice associated with leadership, innovation and change.
Understanding concepts and frameworks of motivation in organizational processes.
Developing skills and capabilities essential to leading others.
Gaining a better understanding of own leadership preferences, strengths, and weaknesses.
Understanding and applying frameworks for diagnosing and resolving leadership problems in organizational settings.
Recognizing structures and processes that affect group performance, and reviewing common pitfalls associated with working in teams.
Cultivating mindsets and building skills to understand the ways in which organizations and their members affect one another.
Developing useful approaches for recognizing and dealing with change in business.
Understanding the behavior of individuals and groups to be able to innovative management systems.
Mastering concepts, frameworks, and tools to assess a firm’s innovativeness and to foster creativity and flexibility.
Content
The “leadership and innovation” module covers these main issues:
Management process
Leadership
Motivation
Small-group behavior
Intergroup- confl ict and cooperation
Successful and unsuccessful change
Organizational development
Transforamtional change
Drivers of innovation,
Innovation and inertia
Innovation management systems
Open innovation
Students will present a specific topic in short presentations in class.During discussions the theoretical frameworks and tools will be applied to specific case studies.
