Modern Management Methods
Component code / course code: UF-29.2
Semester: winter / summer
ECTS credits: 3
Lecture hours per week (SWS): 2
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Weilepp
Language: German / English
Prerequisites:
Management and organization
Qualification objectives:
The students learn about modern management methods and try them out for themselves in small groups based on practice-relevant issues. This involves:
- Corporate Development in Times of Digitalisation: VUCA World & Co, New Work...
- Holocracy, Adhocracy, Ambidextry - Modern Management Systems and Leadership Style as well as Hierarchy in Transition
- Cooperation, collaboration and leadership: from hierarchy to network
- Agile Management: Scrum, Sprints and Design Thinking
Course contents:
The students independently learn and try out the various modern management methods along practice-relevant issues:
- Agile methods for self-determined learning processes in teams (Scrum, Sprints, Working out loud, Bar Camps...)
- Theory U as a consciousness-based method to lead oneself and others
- Modern Management Systems: Holocracy, Adhocracy, Ambidextry in Case Studies
- Systems thinking to see the connections in every situation and the consequences of my own actions.
- Selected tools from the Design Thinking method to lead teams to new solutions
- The bracket: How do companies manage Agile Learning - Future Skills - Leadership - System Design for Innovative Solutions?
Teaching format (e.g. online/in person lecture/Seminar/Lab etc.): Seminar with lecture elements and exercise parts, text study and analysis, case study work,
group discussions, reflection phases, small group work
Examination type: project work
