Leadership and Organizational Change

Code:

2MEAE10

Acronym:

LMO

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management Studies

Instance: 2021/2022 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Economics and Business Administration

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EAE	40	Official Syllabus after 2021-2022	1	-	6	42	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Learning outcomes and competences

Students are expected to develop competencies of analysis, reflexivity and critical thinking about leadership and organizational change, the different approaches to these themes, and the alternative ways of intervening in processes of change in organizations, as well as conducting the necessary diagnosis and self-diagnosis.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Modes of thinking
    Substance thinking. Process thinking. Critical thinking.   

2. Organization and change
    Instrumental perspective. Process perspective. Practice-based perspective. Critical perspective.  
 
3. Leadership approaches
    Heroic perspectives. Post-heroic perspectives. Critical perspectives.

4. Leadership and organizational change
    Mainstream approach. Alternative approaches.  
 
5. Intervention methods for change
    Communication and resistance. Storytelling. Arts-based methods. Creativity methods.

6. Changing organizational culture
    Perspectives on culture and organizational culture. Mainstream and alternative approaches to changing culture. Potential traps and non anticipated effects of attempting to change organizational culture.  

Mandatory literature

Doris Schedlitzki; Studying leadership. ISBN: 978-1-4462-0797-0
Muayyad Jabri; Managing organizational change. ISBN: 978-0-230-24408-5

Comments from the literature

The full bibliographic list will be provided to students in the first lecture.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures for presenting the theoretical elements.
Case analysis and discussion.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	39,00
Frequência das aulas	39,00
Trabalho de investigação	60,00
Trabalho escrito	60,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	6,00
Total:	204,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance of at least 3/4 of lectures.

Calculation formula of final grade

Época normal: DISTRIBUTED ASSESSMENT only
  Assignments (50%) + Exam (50%)
  Minimum mark of 7/20 in the exam
  Approval is granted when final average mark is 9,5 or above

Época de recurso: FINAL EXAM only 
  Exam (100%)

Classification improvement

By final exam at época de recurso.