The challenges of leadership in the 21st century
- Credits: 4
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 2C
- Semester: summer
- Year: 3
- Faculty of Business Management
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Knowledge:
A comprehensive look at leadership and the challenges faced by practitioners through an understanding of decision-making processes and their fallibility, the roles leaders play in bringing about change in organizations, and co-creating learning cultures. Examples of leadership
skills and techniques covered in the course include communication, public speaking, strategic negotiation, decision making, adaptive and innovative thinking, and team building. The information students will gain is based on the latest multidisciplinary findings from behavioral, social sciences, and neurobiology.
Competency:
- Application and effective use of multidisciplinary knowledge in leadership practice
- Ability to critically evaluate the diverse factors that influence performance, motivation, retention, and social relationships in organizations
- Propose solutions and actions that co-create an adaptive and learning organization
Skill:
- Effectively leading employees and assembling cross-functional teams
- Designing the change process and creating the right environment towards an adaptive organisation
- Ability to effectively communicate, negotiate, persuade, motivate and encourage employees to perform optimally
Indicative content
BLOCK 1-2: What Neuroscience teaches us about Change and Adaptation
BLOCK 3-4: Role of Creative Thinking and Innovations in Business
BLOCK 5-6: Decision Making and Power of Social Influence
BLOCK 7-8: Social Intelligence and The Biology of Leadership
BLOCK 9-10: Storytelling and Zen Presentation
BLOCK 11-12: Strategic Negotiation.
BLOCK 13: Final students prezentation
Support literature
Basic literature:
1. KAHNEMAN, Daniel, SIBONY Olivier, SUNSTEIN Cass. Noise A Flaw in Human Judgment, Aktuell. 2021. 528 s. ISBN 9788081720567
2. NEALE, Margaret , Getting (More Of) What You Want, Profile Books Ltd. 2016. 288 s., ISBN 1781253463
3. SAPOLSKY, Robert. Behave, Vintage., 2018. 800 s., ISBN 9780099575061
4. MLODINOV, Leaonard. Elastic Mind., Penguin Books Ltd. 2019. 272 s., ISBN 9780141987392
5. BRITT, Andreatta. Wired to Resist - The Brain Science of Why Change Fails and a New Model for Driving Success. 7th Mind Publishing, 2019, 174 s., ISBN: 9780997354737
Supplementary literature:
1. CIALDINI, Robert, Influence : The Psychology of Persuasion, HarperCollins, 1998, 336 s., ISBN 9780688128166
2. BERNS, Gregory. Iconoclast. Harvard Business Review Press, 2010. 272 s. ISBN 9781422133309
3. BRITT, Andreatta. Wired to Connect: The Brain Science of Teams and a New Model for Creating Collaboration and Inclusion. 7th Mind Publishing, 2018. 188 s. ISBN 0997354755
4. DAVID, Susan. Emotional Agility. Penguin Books, 2017. 288 s. ISBN 9780241976586X
5. GOLEMAN Daniel, BOYATZIS Richard, MCKEE Annie, Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence, McGraw-Hill, 2013. 336 s., ISBN9781422168035
6. KEIDING Hans, Game Theory: A Comprehensive Introduction, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2015, 320 s., ISBN: 9814623652
7. ROCK, David. Your Brain at Work. HarperCollins, 2020, 304 s., ISBN 829309
Requirements to complete the course
40 % attendance at seminars and active participation, completion of assignments, 60 % final group presentation
Student workload
104 h (participation in seminars 26 h, preparation for seminars 26 h, preparation of assignments 26 h, preparation for final presentation 26 h)
Language whose command is required to complete the course
slovak, english
Date of approval: 09.02.2023
Date of the latest change: 23.05.2022