Emner: AORG328 Leadership in Organizational and Cultural Contexts - Vår 2021




Studiepoeng

10.0

Undervisningsspråk

English

Undervisningssemester

Spring, irregular

Mål og innhald

The purpose of this course is to study leadership in two contexts: organizational and cultural contexts. It emphasizes the critical stance based on social science and organization theory.

The major focus is on organizational culture and how it is linked to leadership and management challenges and controversies in the developed, developing, and transitional country's contexts. Understanding culture is crucial to analyze and understand leadership and patterns of governance in public organizations. Organizational culture is analyzed as both dependent and independent variable. As a dependent variable, organizational culture is influenced by leadership, social norms and values, and how political developments and system of governance have evolved and are organized. As an independent variable, it focuses on how organizational culture influences patterns of leadership, relations to authority, and inter-personal relations within organizations and how it affects organization's relationships to the external world. It analyzes to what extent organizational culture influences how bureaucracy functions, makes decisions, implements policies, and to what extent public organizations are receptive to and compatible to contemporary reform initiatives. Related and relevant topics are social and institutional trust, contemporary governance issues, and administrative culture.

Læringsutbyte

A student who has completed the course should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

Skills

The student

General competence

The student

Krav til forkunnskapar

A bachelor degree with major in public administration, political science, development studies, sociology or an equivalent (subject to approval by the administration of the Department of Administration and Organization theory).

Krav til studierett

The course is open for students who have been accepted to the Master's programme in public administration or Master's programme in administration and organization theory. Exchange students may be accepted upon application. Maximum intake of students per course is 20 (twenty). If the number of students registered for a course is five or less, the Department may consider offering the course in seminar format.

Arbeids- og undervisningsformer

Lectures and seminars.

At five or less registered students, course activities and teaching will be in the form of seminars and comprise lesser extent of activities than as outlined in the timetable.

Obligatorisk undervisningsaktivitet

Submission and presentation of a reflection paper of a scientific paper, maximum 1200 words. Full attendance to no less than 80 % of the class meetings is required to be able to sit for exam.

The compulsory assignment must be approved in order to take the exam. Approved compulsory assignments are valid in the current and following two semesters.

Vurderingsformer

Written essay on topic of own choosing based on the course literature, approximately 4000 words.

Students in the MPA program should choose a topic related to the MPA thesis.

Karakterskala

Bokstavkarakterar A-F

Vurderingssemester

Spring

Emneevaluering

Alle emne blir evaluert i tråd med UiBs kvalitetssystem for utdanning.

Administrativt ansvarleg

Department of Administration and Organization Theory at the Faculty of Social Sciences has the administrative responsibility for the course and the study programme.

Kontaktinformasjon

Studierettleiar@aorg.uib.no

Tlf 55 58 21 54