| Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcome 1: Students acquire the competencies to critically analyze crisis events based on classic and contemporary organization theory, identify central challenges for organizations resulting from crises, and develop appropriate solutions in response to such events
Learning Outcome 2: Students strengthen their presentation and communication skills and acquire the ability to design and deliver learning formats in a didactically valuable way.
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| Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcome 3: Students can discuss, reflect on, and purposefully apply different leadership and change management practices in the context of organizations dealing with crises.
Learning Outcome 4: Students improve their skills in academic writing and designing learning formats.
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The course comprises several topical sessions, each dealing with a particular aspect of leadership and change in the context of uncertainty and critical situations. While concrete contents will be subject to change, central topics will include aspects such as:
- Leadership and sensemaking during crisis
- Organizational decision-making in crisis
- Institutional and organizational trust during crises
- Organizing for high(er) reliability
- Time, temporality, and organizing in times of crisis
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcome 5: Students know the basic organization and management theories related to leadership and change and based on them can explain the advantages and disadvantages of specific concepts in the context of uncertainty and critical situations.
Learning Outcome 6: Students understand the central practices leaders in and across organizations apply to recognize, evaluate, and develop solutions in response to crises including aspects such as collective sensemaking, decision-making, trust building, and high-reliability organizing.
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