New Trends in Management

About

The course objective is to familiarize the students with new trends in management, especially regarding sustainable business. It particularly aims at developing students’ skills in identifying and analyzing the key problems and solutions facing contemporary organizations. This course will inspire students to become change agents for sustainable business by increasing their understanding of phenomena critical for business success and survival today and in future

Course leader

Pasi Heikkurinen, Professor, LUT University

Target group

Suitable for M.Sc.

Course aim

The course will focus on questions concerning technological advancement, social transformation, and perceptions of nature. It will begin by examining how management as a field is increasingly transdisciplinary and how it advances by connecting to both natural and social sciences, as well as to humanities. The course will then proceed to investigating the questions of responsibility and desires in business, including the potential and perils of technology. It will discuss the requirements of transformation in cultures of growth and the importance of how nature is perceived. Implications to practice are discussed in-class.

Mode of study:
This intensive one-week course will comprise nine two-hour lectures and both individual and group in-class exercises. Before the course starts, the students are asked to read the course book, as well as to familiarize themselves with the additional readings. During the class students are expected to keep and diary and write a reflective individual assignment based on their notes. The pedagogical approach is based on the epistemological principle of perspectivism.

Pre work: Read the course book
Post work: Complete the assignment

Before the class: 30 hours workload
In class: 18 hours
Independent work: 32 hours workload

Total workload 80 hours. (3 ECTS)

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