STR 1321 Strategic Management
STR 1321 Strategic Management
This course contributes to giving students insight into strategic leadership, organization design, and strategic human resource management. The course covers foundational theories and application of these to real cases. The course builds upon Organizational Theory and HRM. The course explores leadership, change processes, and organization design.
During the course students shall:
- Learn foundational theories for strategic leadership and organizing
- Develop an understanding of strategy development and implementation, strategic organization design, and strategic human resource management.
- Develop strategy process capabilities through analysis and discussion of case material and examples from different organizations.
After the course students shall:
- Analyze business situations that involve strategic leadership processes, strategic organization design, and strategic human resource management
- Be able to evaluate different processes for strategy development and implementation, design and conduct strategic processes, and create and implement organizational designs.
Students will be able to critically reflect upon and understand strategic problems and leadership processes, including concepts and theories related to complexity, evolutionary processes, organizational routines, cybernetics, organizational learning, development of operational and dynamic capabilities, organizational adaptation to changing environments, strategy practice, strategic organization, strategic organizing, and strategic human resource management. The discussion of various strategy processes and organization will include ethical concerns and societal and organizational sustainability.
- Strategic adaptation
- Complexity theory and organizational processes
- Organizational learning
- Operational and dynamic capabilities
- Strategy processes
- Internationalization processes
- Strategic integration
- Strategic organizing
- Strategic human resource management
- Strategic leadership
The course consists of lectures, case discussions, formative feedback, and student guidance.
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Higher Education Entrance Qualification
Disclaimer
Deviations in teaching and exams may occur if external conditions or unforeseen events call for this.
The first and second year of the Bachelor of Science Programme in Business and Economics.
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Submission PDF Exam/hand-in semester: First Semester Weight: 40 Grouping: Group (1 - 4) Duration: 2 Week(s) Exam code: STR 13211 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination every semester |
Exam category: School Exam Form of assessment: Written School Exam - digital Exam/hand-in semester: First Semester Weight: 60 Grouping: Individual Support materials:
Duration: 4 Hour(s) Exam code: STR 13212 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination every semester |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
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Teaching | 36 Hour(s) | |
Case teaching | 9 Hour(s) | |
Prepare for teaching | 47 Hour(s) | Includes review and analysis of case material in preparation for discussion in teams and parallell case discussion sessions with assistance from doctoral students |
Group work / Assignments | 20 Hour(s) | |
Student's own work with learning resources | 79 Hour(s) | Reading in preparation for lectures and exam as well as work with simulations |
Group work / Assignments | 9 Hour(s) |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 7,5 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 200 hours.
