This one-year programme is a full-time multidisciplinary programme that should provide the students with knowledge, analytical skills and attitudes which make them capable of managing central leader tasks in changing organisations. The students will develop the ability to understand and diagnose organisation and personnel problems, and be able to develop and implement suitable measures. The programme is based on theory, but there will be focus on relating the theory to practical experiences and examples from the working life.
The programme forms a solid basis for the management of different leader, organisation and personnel work.
Admission requirements
This is a supplementary study which requires at least 1 year relevant higher education (e.g. 1st year of the Bachelor in organisation and management) or corresponding prior learning and work experience.
Høgskolelektor Marit Elvsås
The programme consists of four courses of 15 credits each:
1. Work and organisation psychology: The course deals with general psychology, but also psychological theory, research and work methods especially directed towards organisations and job situations in the working life (see learning goals).
2. Personnel and competence management: The course deals with central topics within the field management of human resources in different types of modern organisations (see course description).
3. Labour legislation and the collective working life: The course will give an insight into legal rules in work relationships and an overview over the social institutions that are important in the working life and for the parts in the working life (see course description).
4. Organisational change and change management: The course will provide the students with insight into and understanding of the phenomenon organisational change and management of change processes in organisations, so-called change management (see course description).
Admission requirementsAt least 1 year relevant higher education (e.g. 1st year of the Bachelor in organisation and management) or corresponding prior learning and work experience.
The programme will focus on an applied, practical perspective where course-specific theory will form the basis of broad understanding and reflections related to management and administration challenges in modern organisations and businesses. This implies that the working methods in the programme will be a combination of lectures and seminars on theory and the processing of this, but also exercises and excursions related to the practice field (different types of organisations in the public, private and voluntary sector), which should help connecting theory and practice. The students will also be offered supervision in connection with certain written assignments.
AssessmentThe examination method will vary depending on course. See each course for more details.