Systems and strategic leadership (2235.YR.014922.5)
General information
Type: |
BAS |
Curs: |
2 |
Period: |
S semester |
ECTS Credits: |
4 ECTS |
Teaching Staff:
| Group |
Teacher |
Department |
Language |
| Year 2 |
François Collet |
Dirección de Personas y Organización |
ENG |
Prerequisites
Systems and Society course.
Workload distribution
This is a 4-ECTS course, which means that students are expected to dedicate approximately 100hours of workload. (25 hours per ECTS). This workload encompasses various activities, including blended classes, both in-person and online, synchronous, or asynchronous, autonomous student work, study time, or any other time dedicated to the subject.
COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
Being successful within an organization, whether as a newly hired employee or a CEO, requires an understanding of the human side of management, an in-depth understanding of how organizations work and their impact on the natural environment.
To be effective in your work you not only need technical skills in operations, finance, accounting, marketing and developing winning strategies, but also knowledge of how to implement them with the help of other people. Your own personal traits, abilities, skills, and knowledge will be valuable tools throughout your career. However, as you move up through any organization it is increasingly critical that you develop your ability to work with a multicultural diverse group of people and understand and leverage the organization's dynamics.
The course builds on what you learn in your first year about complex systems which serves as basis to understand complex multi-level processes within an organization and its interaction with the external organizational and natural environment.
The concepts and models studied in this course have applications to a variety of organizations?not only businesses, but also governments, non-profits, athletic teams, social clubs, and religious groups. We will encourage you to explore a diversity of organizational forms and purposes beyond the corporate realm.
Course Learning Objectives
#complexcausation Identify how multiple interdependent causes interacts to produce complex causation.
#organizationalculture describe and evaluate critically organizational culture
#organizing analyze structural design alternatives and their key strengths and weaknesses.
#networks systematically examine the informal structure of an organization.
#socioeconomicsystem analyze the interactions between organizations and the natural environment
#powerdynamics: Recognize how to influence group interactions by exerting different types of power.
#emotionaliq: Use emotional intelligence to interact effectively.
#differences: Identify and utilize people's different skills, abilities, traits, attitudes and beliefs.
#leadership
#teamwork
#carrotandstick: Analyze how reinforcement and punishment alter behavior and utilize them appropriately.
#nudge: Use choice architecture to influence other people's decisions.
#negotiate: Use a structured approach to negotiation to reach desired objectives.
#leadprinciples: Apply principles of effective leadership.
CONTENT
1. Unit 1: Tools to Overcome Organizational Challenges |
2. Unit 2: Leadership, Teamwork and Networks |
3. Unit 3: Negotiation and Mediation |
4. Unit 4: Organizations and the Natural Environment |
Relation between Activities and Contents
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| Open Questions Examination |
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Methodology
Blended learning: an approach that includes activities inside and outside the classroom, combining virtual and face-to-face activities, synchronous and asynchronous, on campus or not.
Guided learning: a mechanism that includes activities that are generally carried out outside the classroom, asynchronously wit specific instructions or guidelines indicated by the faculty.
Autonomous learning: activities where the student must carry out readings, studies, visualizations, or other activities autonomously without specific instructions of guidelines.
ASSESSMENT
ASSESSMENT BREAKDOWN
| Description |
% |
| Active Participation |
50 |
| Open Questions Examination |
50 |
Assessment criteria
Active contribution to learning. Students will be required to show professional maturity and active engagement in the pedagogical activities of the course. Maintaining such an attitude throughout the course presupposes a number of things. First, it assumes that you attend a majority of the sessions. Second, it assumes that you demonstrate interest. Third, it supposes that you contribute to maintaining a positive class atmosphere. Fourth, it presumes that you are prepared, such that when you offer comments, they evidence a previous analysis of the issue being discussed, showing a deep understanding of the corresponding class. Fifth, is supposes that you are a good listener, showing it through comments that are relevant to the discussion and/or linked to the comments of others. Finally, it assumes that you an effective communicator, presenting your arguments concisely and convincingly.
Class activities. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the topics by completing tailored in-class activitites. These may include polls, short exercises, oral explanations of concepts, or short quizzes. In all cases, students will be required to show their understanding of the concepts discussed before, during or after the class. For this purpose, they will have to had completed the readings, come prepared, and made sure they revise contents from previous sessions. The course will follow a continuous learning, incremental approach, meaning that you will be required to keep up-to-date with the materials to progress through the semester.
Timely completion and submission of assignments and reports. As part of their autonomous work, students will be required to complete a series of assignments during their independent study hours. In these assignment, students will be asked to deepen their understanding of the topics. Group projects will include peer evaluation.
Final Exam
Timetable and sections
| Group |
Teacher |
Department |
| Year 2 |
François Collet |
Dirección de Personas y Organización |
Timetable Year 2
From 2024/1/8 to 2024/2/5:
Each Monday from 14:00 to 15:30. (Except: 2024/1/8 and 2024/2/5)
Each Monday from 14:00 to 17:00. (Except: 2024/1/15, 2024/1/22 and 2024/1/29)
From 2024/1/12 to 2024/3/8:
Each Friday from 14:00 to 15:30.
From 2024/2/12 to 2024/3/11:
Each Monday from 14:00 to 15:30. (Except: 2024/3/11)
Each Monday from 14:00 to 17:00. (Except: 2024/2/12, 2024/2/19, 2024/2/26 and 2024/3/4)
Monday 2024/3/18 from 9:00 to 12:00.
