750676 - LEADERSHIP AND COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS

insegnamento
Tipo Insegnamento:
Opzionale
Durata (ore):
40
CFU:
6
SSD:
SOCIOLOGIA DEI PROCESSI ECONOMICI E DEL LAVORO
Sede:
BRESCIA
Url:
ECONOMIA SOCIALE E IMPRESE COOPERATIVE/comune Anno: 1
Anno:
2024
Course Catalogue:
https://permalink.unibs.it/suacds/afcc/2024?corso=...

Dati Generali

Periodo di attività

Secondo Quadrimestre (27/02/2025 - 09/06/2025)

Syllabus

Obiettivi Formativi

The course aims to provide students the main relational and coordination skills that are typical of organizations operating on international markets. This shall be referred both to the case of firms concerned with direct activity of foreign assets and to others merely involved in indirect asset-driven activity. Such an approach is focused on several cognitive-relational capabilities that are required to face the variety of cultural contexts, diversity, internal/ external innovation, peer-to-peer relationships and face-to-face interactions.

Knowledge and understanding:
students shall be able to deal with the basic principles of organizational decision-making in dynamic and highly uncertain environments. The course will frame leadership through the understanding of the three fundamental spheres of socio-organizational behavior of international firms: cognitive, procedural and symbolic one.

Applying knowledge and understanding: the student shall be able to effectively and logically explain the process that allows an organization to bring out an appropriate style of leadership with regard to the social and international economic context in which firms operate. Specific emphasis is placed on improving the provision of negotiating capabilities that leading decision-makers should achieve as active managers in international business relations.

Making judgement:
at the end of the course, the student is supposed to embrace the capability of critically evaluating the main empirical problems of coordination involved in complex organization choices. Data and indicators should be used in a way that facilitates the understanding of international business scenarios.

Communication skills: the student shall be able to argue on two levels: the scientific one, with specific terminology appropriateness, and the disseminating one, with addressed towards explaining notions even to non-professionals people.

Learning skills: the student shall benefit from the acquired theoretical and empirical knowledge so that he/she could face the recurrent issues dealing with leadership for international business firms.

Prerequisiti

None

Metodi didattici

The course will integrate theoretical issues with case-studies by classroom teaching. It could also include home/group works as well as students' presentations.

Verifica Apprendimento

The final grade will be based on a written test with onlg multiple choice questions (2 grade-points for some of them and 1 grade-point for others, no penalties for wrong answers). In agreement with the professor, attendants can perform home/group works on specific topics by writing shorts reports and presenting/discussing them in the class during the last lectures.
The structure of the final test is the same for attending and non-attending students while the content is obviously different, i.e.: for attending students the syllabus consists of the topics covered in classroom (what is contained in the course slides published on moodle + what was explained in class) while for non-attending students the syllabus consists of the text "Complexity and the Nexus of Leadership: Leveraging Nonlinear Science to Create Ecologies of Innovation" (by Goldstein, J., Hazy, J., Lichtenstein, B.)

Testi

Textboook (for non attending students)
*Goldstein J., Hazy, J. K., and Lichtenstein, B. B. (2010) Complexity and the Nexus of Leadership. Leveraging NonLinear Science to Create Ecologies of Innovation, Palgrave Macmillan, New York

Recommended reading:
*Kupers, R. (2001) What Organizational Leaders Should Know about the New Science of Complexity. Complexity, 6(1), pp. 14-19
*Ulh-Bien, M., Marion, R. and McKelvey, B. (2007) Complexity Leadership Theory: Shifting Leadership from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Era. The Leadership Quarterly, 18(4), pp. 298-318.
*McKelvey, B. (2010) Complexity Leadership: The Secret of Jack Welch’s Success. Int. J. Complexity in Leadership and Management, 1(1), pp. 4-36.
* Vidaillet, B. 2001. "Cognitive Processes and Decision Making in a Crisis Situation: A Case Study." In T. Lant and Z. Shapira (eds.), Organizational Cognition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 241-263.
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The articles will be available as pdf files in the online course materials..

Contenuti

The course focuses on the key practice through which leading decision makers cope with different task-environments, by enhancing peer relations within and between international organizations. Specific attention is drawn to those open collaborative networks emerging from a bottom-up perspective that accounts for a socio-cognitive perspective. Each issue is addressed by upholding a continuous reference to the typical conceptual frameworks of complex organizations involved in international business relations. Emerging capabilities of transformational leadership are studied by comparing dynamics of various organizations: multinational, international, global and also transnational companies.

Lingua Insegnamento

INGLESE

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ECONOMIA SOCIALE E IMPRESE COOPERATIVE 
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