Kurs: TU-E3041 - Leadership and Change Management D, Lecture, 5.9.2022-10.10.2022

Welcome to the Leadership and Change Management course!

The course will be held in a hybrid format (on campus and via Zoom).

Join Zoom Meeting here: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/66562194962

Participation in sessions is not mandatory. You can take the course as guided self-study.

We, however, hope to see you in the class room or on Zoom where we will have insightful discussions and opportunities to ask questions from our guests from the industry, who will share their experiences and knowledge.

The instructors:

Assistant Professor Natalia Vuori

Postdoctoral Researcher Barbara Burkhard

The course assistant:

Teemu Surakka

Learning objectives

You will go way with

Understanding what motivates people
Knowing various leadership styles and understanding when and how to use them
Understanding organizational changes
Understanding the challenges that employees face during every kind of organizational changes
Knowing how to manage employees during these organizational changes

Content

The course is organized into 5 modules. 1, 2, and 3 modules cover the Leadership part. 4 and 5 modules cover Change Management.

Motivation Theories & Self-Determination Theory
Situational Leadership & Leader-Member Exchange Leadership
Transformational Leadership
Changes in organizations (I)
Changes in organizations (II)

How the course is organized

For each of the five modules, we will provide videos and readings (book chapters and articles).

You can watch videos and read the material when it is most convenient for you.

However, for each module, you need to return reflection notes and do online quiz.

The DLs are strict!!!

Learning contract

By taking this course, you enter into a learning contract with me. Here are our mutual promises:

What I promise:

•Provide materials and tools that help you achieve learning objectives

•Design the course in a way that allows you to learn and simultaneously provides you with the flexibility to pass the course tailored to your ambitions and personal schedule in these difficult times

•Help you with all practicalities

•Give each of you an equal opportunity to finalize the course and learn content

What you promise:

•Be responsible for your own learning: read all materials, watch all videos, reflect and think, return assignments

•Not to take shortcuts or copy&paste from others

•If you decide to do an option case group solving, do your share of the work in the (optional) group case-solving exercise

Schedule

Deliverables

For each of the five modules, you will need to submit (1) a one-page reflection note (individual work) and (2) solve an online quiz (individual work).

One final assignment (3) (individual work)

In addition, there is (4) an optional case-solving exercise (in groups).

(1) Reflection notes

You need to submit a one-page reflection note using the Cornell method for note-taking. Here is a link to the video that explains how to use this method:

This method helps you reflect on and better organize the study material.

Click on Assignments and then Reflection notes to submit the reflection note (if you use pen and paper you can take a picture of your notes with your phone and upload that).

(2) Online Quizzes

The online quizzes consist of 8-15 multiple-choice questions about the study material. You can see whether you answered all questions correctly after submitting your answers, and you can redo the quizzes as many times as you like.

Click on the Quizzes folder to see the questions and submit your answers. Not available yet, we will let you know when you can start taking the online quizzes.

(3) Final assignment

This is individual work. The instruction TBA

(4) Group case-solving (Optional)

This part of the course is optional. It involves solving a case in a group.

These deadlines are strict. No late submissions will be accepted.

Quizzes and reflection notes take time. Start working on them early enough!

Grading policy

Up to 40 points are given for the following elements

Reflection notes (individual work): 10 points
Online quizzes (individual work): 10 points
Final assignment (individual work): 15 points
Group case-solving (in groups): 5 points (optional)

Each reflection note and each online quiz are graded from 0 to 2, so you can get a maximum of 20 points from these.

Reflection notes

To pass, it needs to be visible that you have spent some effort reflecting on both videos and readings. Submissions with mostly white space, with just a few words, or obviously copied&pasted from elsewhere are graded 0. Reflecting on videos ONLY are graded as 0.

Online quizzes

You can redo the quizzes as many times as you like, but you must answer all multiple-choice questions correctly to pass and get 2 points.

Final assignment

The questions for the final assignment are available in the Resources folder.

Group case (optional)

The instructions are available in the Resources folder.

Final grades are given as follows:

<20: FAIL
20-23: 1 (but must return Final assignment)
24-27: 2
28-31: 3
32-35: 4
36+: 5

Attention:

To pass, you must return the final assignment and get at least one point (so you can’t pass just with reflection notes and online quizzes, even if you get 20 points from them).
You can get at most 4 without doing the optional group case-solving
All points will be communicated through the course website (under Grades)

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