Welcome
Program outline
    Target group
    Guided self-study
    Residential weeks
Curriculum
    Core program
    Business Administration program
    Thesis-writing modules
Schedule
Financial details
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1. Leading change in international organizations and companies

This course offers integrative knowledge and skills for the manager in his or her role as a leader of a business organisation in a global context. The leader needs to connect the organization to the interests of internal and external stakeholders, is responsible for the effective design of the organization and must lead as well as manage organizational change. Starting with the organization in its environment and the idea of a strategy, the course focuses on the different ways in which strategies can be implemented in organizations in the form of structures, control systems and culture. The role of the leader gets special emphasis, as the person who brings life to formal structures, creates culture and motivates people. This leadership role confronts him/her with ethical dilemmas and questions on how to give substance to the social and moral responsibility of the organization. This is dealt with in ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics.’ It is the challenge of the manager to be successful, both personally and in his or her role, while respecting the whole range of responsibilities. Change on different levels – change in the global economy, in products and markets, organizational structures and systems and individual work roles and identities – is a pervasive theme throughout this course.