Management and Organizations (OPEN UNI)

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to distinguish the concepts related to organization, organizing as well as managerial and entrepreneurial work. This understanding helps the student's ability to identify organizational processes in everyday work-life interventions and to list the possible change factors within a chosen organization. The student is also able to identify different kinds of organizations and can define the different principles of management styles. The student is able to understand various ongoing functions within organizations and their requirements for the organizations' management. The student understands the role of organizational development and learns to register the most essential challenges of management in the current organizations.

Mode of delivery lectures, visiting lecturers, case-practices and group works. lectures (36 hours, including case-practices and group work of 9 hours), reading the course material (45 hours), preparation for the exam (52 hours).

Written exam of lectures and literature.

The course utilizes a numerical grading scale 1-5. In the numerical scale zero stands for a fail.

This course is part of OBS open university route.