Examination arrangement

Course content

The course will provide students with knowledge and understanding of management in complex organizations that are under constant pressure to change in a digital era. The students will gain insight into managing and organizing in a Norwegian context where participation, co-determination and democratic leadership are central elements. The course will give students knowledge and understanding of different perspectives on readiness for change, innovation and implementation perspectives and implications for management of innovation and implementation processes. The course will enable students to reflect on the consequences of managers' understandings of the organization and its employees during the planning and execution of innovation processes. The course will also enable the students to reflect on what role co-determination and democratic leadership can have on the outcome of implementation processes and digital transformation.

Important topics in the course

• Management and organization
• Readiness for change
• Resistance to change
• Co-determination, democratic leadership and the Norwegian working life model
• Innovation- and implementation processes in complex organizations

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

The candidate:

• has in-depth knowledge of management and organizational change in a Norwegian context where participation, co-determination, and democratic leadership are central elements.
• has advanced knowledge of different perspectives on readiness for change, implementation theoretical frameworks, and implications for lmanagement of innovation- and implementation processes.
• can apply knowledge about management of complex organizations that are under constant change pressure in a digital era.
• can analyze professional issues around resistance to change and implications for management of innovation processes.

Skill:

The candidate:

• can analyze how participation and democratic leadership can support innovation processes and the company’s overall goals.
• can use theory as a tool to understand implementation processes in complex organizations, what can hinder and promote such processes.
• can work independently with practical and theoretical problem solving about consequences of managers’ understandings of the organization and its employees during planning and implementation of implementation processes.
• can analyze what role co-determination and democratic leadership can have for the result of implementation processes and digital transformation.

General competence

The candidate:

• can apply their knowledge and skills about the Norwegian working life model, organizational change, management and innovation processes to contribute to the implementation of good change processes in complex organizations
• can contribute to innovation and innovation processes in complex organizations
• can transform and adapt international theory trends to Norwegian conditions.

Learning methods and activities

Student-active learning based on flipped classroom and module-based seminars.

The pedagogic activities give students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the subject at their own pace and together with fellow students prior to seminars, where the course content is then further processed together with fellow students and the teacher, in groups and in plenary.

Students will read and work with specified portions of the syllabus and learning resources on Blackboard and prepare as specified in Blackboard, before we meet for seminars. These are obligatory activities.

Students form groups that they work with regularly throughout the semester.

In addition to the curriculum, the learning resources in Blackboard are an important part of the course.

The course is taught in Norwegian.

Obligatory activities

Preparation (as specified in Blackboard) for - and participation in - specified seminars. Absence must be approved by the course supervisor.

An obligatory task, as specified in Blackboard at the start of the semester.

Compulsory assignments

• Preparation (specified in Blackboard) and participation in specified seminars. Absence must be approvd by the teacher.
• An assignment during the semester in groups of 1-2

Further on evaluation

Compulsory activities described above and specified at the start of the semester must be passed in order to sit for the exam.

Home exam in the form of an assignment over a week. The students can decide whether they want to write and submit the assignment individually or as a group of 2 students.

The exam can be written in Norwegian or English.

Letter grade A-F

Exam registration requires that semester registration has been approved in the same semester.

Recommended previous knowledge

IDS4002 Sustainable organization and leadership of innovation in a Norwegian perspective

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Required previous knowledge

Admission to a master's programme.

Students admitted to other master’s programs have access to the course but must clarify with their department whether it is approved as part of their degree.

Course materials

To be announced at the start of the semester