GRA 8535 Negotiation, Change, and International Aspects of the Green Transition

GRA 8535 Negotiation, Change, and International Aspects of the Green Transition

Course code: 
GRA 8535
Department: 
Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Credits: 
3
Course coordinator: 
Carl Fey
Course name in Norwegian: 
Negotiation, Change, and International Aspects of the Green Transition
Product category: 
Executive
Portfolio: 
MME - MM specialisation in Energy
Semester: 
2027 Spring
Active status: 
Active
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching language: 
English
Course type: 
One semester
Introduction

This course is part of the Master of Management in Energy in cooperation with BI Norwegian Business School and IFP School.

This course explores how various personal skills, many considered in an international context, will help participants to add more value to the green transition/ future energy ecosystem.  A key point of this course is that it is not just what you do (a strategy) that is important, but how you do it (the practices used) is also very important.  Further, increasingly most of us engage in some sort of international business so it is important to learn about how to work and effectively lead in an international context.  Further, the course will explore global climate change and the energy transition in China which is impacting all around the world.

Learning outcomes - Knowledge
  • Students will learn strategies for successful international negotiations
  • Students will learn how to lead and manage complex change in the green transition
  • Students will learn about how to implement a coaching style of leadership and its benefits for leading innovation and change
  • Students will learn about drivers of global warming and international aspects of global warming
  • Students will learn about the energy transition in China which is impacting all around the world
Learning outcomes - Skills
  • Participants will able to apply a variety of strategies for complex international business negotiations
  • Participants will learn how to adapt their negotiation approach to better match who they are negotiation with
  • Participants will be able to apply a coaching style of leadership and be able to help develop employees and facilitate change using it
  • Participants will be able to lead a complex change and innovation process
General Competence

Participants will gain:

  • Improved ability to analyze and evaluate
  • The ability to analyze an international negotiation and apply appropriate international negotiation strategies to succeed
Course content
  • International negotiations
  • Leading innovation and change in green transformations
  • A coaching style of leadership: A tool for development and change
  • Drivers of and international aspects of global warming
  • The Energy transition in China
Teaching and learning activities

The course is experiential and will use cases, simulations, mini- lectures, discussions, and corporate guest lectures.

1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. 

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 Master of Management in Energy (MME) and examination in all courses must be passed in order to obtain a certificate.

In all BI Executive courses and programmes, there is a mutual requirement for the student and the course responsible regarding the involvement of the student's experience in the planning and implementation of courses, modules and programmes. This means that the student has the right and duty to get involved with their own knowledge and practice relevance, through the active sharing of their relevant experience and knowledge.

Software tools
No specified computer-based tools are required.
Additional information

The course is conducted through a total of approximately 24 hours of physical and virtual teaching and related activities.

 

 

Qualifications

Granted admission to the Master of Management in Energy programme. Please consult our student regulations.

Assessments
Assessments
Exam category: 
Submission
Form of assessment: 
Submission PDF
Exam/hand-in semester: 
First Semester
Weight: 
100
Grouping: 
Individual
Duration: 
10 Week(s)
Comment: 
The exam will consist of a paper, counts 100% of the total grade. In the paper students will need to reflect how they, or potentially someone they know, has applied something they learned in their course like a coaching style of leadership, strategies for successful international negotiation, or how to lead change to their work. Students will also need to comment on how, if at all, they have used AI in preparing the paper.
Exam code: 
GRA 85351
Grading scale: 
ECTS
Resit: 
Examination when next scheduled course
Type of Assessment: 
Ordinary examination
Total weight: 
100
Student workload
ActivityDurationComment
Teaching
24 Hour(s)
Examination
20 Hour(s)
A paper
Student's own work with learning resources
40 Hour(s)
Sum workload: 
84

A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 3 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 80 hours.

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