GRA 8250 High Performance Change Management for Sustainability Transformation
GRA 8250 High Performance Change Management for Sustainability Transformation
In this course, we focus on how you can manage the change involved in executing green strategies. This includes, but is not limited to, setting up a guiding coalition, co-creating direction, mobilizing resources and energy in people through positive relationships, as well as using the progress principle and cultivating a mastery climate for fast learning and institutionalizing of practices. We will also look at what kind of organizations and competences that will be needed to take advantage of the next big wave of the green shift opportunities. As a part of this process, you will work with developing a green business plan for your own company.
Participants will learn about:
- the concepts of green ethics, corporate ethics and personal ethics
- public policies in the EU and Nordics for enabling the transition
- integrating sustainability opportunities into main corporate strategies
- overcoming cultural resistance to change
- the impact of sustainable practices on talent attraction and retention
Participant will learn how to:
- develop green business plans for own companies/projects at strategic levels.
- calculatie the ROI on sustainable business cases
- implement and execute sustainable growth projects
Participant will be challenged to reflect on:
- the high performing green executive and their own styles
- how to tackle cultural and organizational inertia.
- The high-performing green executive
- Purpose and sustainability-ethics at corporate and personal levels
- How to make and execute a game-changing sustainability strategy?
- How to deal with resistance to sustainability initiatives or green strategies?
- Tackling Cultural and Organisational inertia
- Making and calculating the financial case for sustainability investments
- Public policies for enabling the transition: overcoming the obstacles (procurement, perverse subsidies, taxes etc)
5 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload between 130 and 150 hours. The course is conducted through a total of 40 hours of lectures and other classroom activities. We expect active class participation and supportive behavior for fellow students. Each participant is held co-responsible for a learning environment that is open, challenging and respectful.
This is a course with continuous assessment (several exam components) and one final exam code. Each exam component will be graded using points on a scale 0 -100. The components will be weighted together according to the information in the course description in order to calculate the final letter grade for the course. Students who fail to participate in one/some/all exam components will get a lower grade or may fail the course. Candidates may be called in for an oral hearing as a verification/control of written assignments)
Specific information regarding the points system and the mapping scale beyond the information given in the course description will be provided in class. This information may be relevant for requirements for term papers or other hand-ins, and/or where class participation can be one of several elements of the overall evaluation.
Attendance to all sessions in the course is compulsory. If you have to miss part(s) of the course you must ask in advance for leave of absence. More than 25% absence in a course will require retaking the entire course. It's the student's own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class that is not included on the course homepage/ It's learning or other course materials.
The course is a part of a full EMBA programme and examination in all courses must be passed in order to obtain the EMBA certificate.
| Assessments |
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Exam category: Activity Form of assessment: Class participation Weight: 30 Grouping: Individual Comment: Class participation, counts 30% of the total grade. Exam code: GRA 82501 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 50 Grouping: Individual Duration: 4 Week(s) Comment: Individual written assignment, counts 50% of the total grade. Exam code: GRA 82501 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
Exam category: Activity Form of assessment: Presentation Weight: 20 Grouping: Group (2 - 6) Comment: Group presentation, counts 20% of the final grade. Exam code: GRA 82501 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
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Teaching | 40 Hour(s) | |
Prepare for teaching | 35 Hour(s) | |
Student's own work with learning resources | 75 | Self study, feedback activities/counselling and exam. |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 5 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 135 hours.