Leadership and Organizational Behavior

Degree programs: MSc International Management, MSc Logistics & SCM, MSc Business Analytics and Data Science

The objective of this module is that students will be able to understand humans and human interaction in organization better, in particular the strengths and weaknesses of each. Students will find out about their own all too human side, and as a consequence, be able to differentiate strategies how to best or worst manage themselves and others in organizations. Across the whole module, students will be confronted with state of the art psychological and organizational research that will give them an improved understanding of different research methods and their application.

The other objective of the module is that students will understand what it takes to be a leader. Particularly, we will zoom in on personality aspects, behavior aspects, and aspects of interaction that determine whether someone will emerge and be successful as a leader. In that sense, this module seeks to instigate a reflection process within each student to deliberate what his or her personal leadership strengths and weaknesses are. As a consequence, they will discover in what kind of environments they will strive as leaders and which environments will provide more of a development challenge.

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