STR xx32 Strategic management
STR xx32 Strategic management
This 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, and 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
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.