Leadership and Communication

Brief description

  • Theoretical and practical examination of basic leadership styles
  • Tasks of a leader: leading - coaching - organising
  • Situational leadership techniques and management circle (leadership gap, leadership and personality pyramid, agile leadership)
  • Optimising one's own decision-making competence; special features of leadership in projects (lateral leadership)
  • Drivers of digital change in companies
  • Agile management methods
  • Forms of innovation management

Mode of delivery

face to face

Type

compulsory

Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools

Mayrhofer, W. / Furtmüller, G. / Kasper, H. (Hrsg.) (2015): Personalmanagement – Führung – Organisation, 5th ed., Vienna: Linde
Creusen U., Gall B., Hackl O. (2017): Digital Leadership: Führung in Zeiten des digitalen Wandels, 1st ed., Springer Gabler.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Input, independent development of a specific problem area supervised by the lecturer, small group work, discussions.

Assessment methods and criteria

Continuous assessment: assignments, written elaboration of given questions, presentations.
Assessment criteria: completeness, level of detail and complexity of answers, accuracy of solutions and results, compliance with formal criteria.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Course content of previous semesters

Infos

Degree programme

Logistics & Strategic Management (Master)

Cycle

Master

ECTS Credits

3.00

Language of instruction

German

Curriculum

Part-Time

Academic year

2025

Semester

3 WS

Incoming

No

Learning outcome

After successful completion of the course, students can

  • describe modern approaches and instruments of leadership theories (2),
  • lead personnel in the role of a manager and/or a project manager and choose the appropriate forms of communication (5),
  • identify the demands on managers in the face of digital change (2) and
  • apply agile management methods and forms of innovation management (3).

Course code

1392-21-01-BB-DE-20