Examination arrangement

Course content

The course will provide students with knowledge and understanding of management in complex organizations that are under constant pressure to change in a digital era. The students will gain insight into management and organizational theory in a Norwegian context where participation, co-determination and democratic management are central elements. The course will give students knowledge and understanding of different perspectives on maturity for change, innovation and implementation perspectives and implications for management of innovation and implementation processes with examples from cases about digital transformation. The course will enable students to reflect on the consequences of managers' understandings of the organization and its employees during the planning and execution of implementation processes. The course will also enable the students to reflect on what role co-determination and democratic management can have on the outcome of implementation processes and digital transformation.

Important topics in the course

• Management and organization
• Co-determination, democratic management and the Norwegian model
• Innovation- and implementation processes in complex organizations
• Readiness/maturity for change
• Digital transformation and implications for management

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

Through the course students will acquire:

• understanding of the management of complex organizations that are under constant pressure to change in a digital era.
• understanding of management and organizational theory in a Norwegian context where participation, co-determination and democratic management are central elements.
• understanding of different perspectives on maturity for change, implementation theoretical frameworks and implications for management of implementation processes.
• understanding and insight into issues surrounding digital transformation and implications for management of digital transformation processes.

Skill:

Through the course students will:

• develop the ability to analyze how participation and democratic management can support the company's overall goals.
• be able to apply theory as a tool to understand implementation processes in complex organizations, what can hinder and promote such processes.
• reflect on the consequences of managers' understanding of the organization and its employees during the planning and execution of implementation processes,
• reflect on what role co-determination and democratic management can have for the outcome of implementation processes and digital transformation.

General competence

Through the course students must have developed competence to:

• contribute to good implementation processes in complex organizations
• provide good analysis and input for the implementation of digital transformation in complex organizations.
• to transform and adapt international theoretical trends to Norwegian conditions.

Learning methods and activities

The course is based on student active learning.

The students form groups that work together throughout the semester.

There will be module based seminars where the students work in groups and together in plenary.

The curriculum as well as learning resources in Blackboard are important in the course.

'Flipped classroom' gives the students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the topics at their own pace in advance of coming together. In the seminars the topics are then processed together with fellow students and the teacher.

Students will read specified parts of the syllabus and learning resources and prepare as specified in Blackboard before we meet for seminars during the semester.

In addition, students will work with a compulsory assignment (in groups of 1-2) and then evaluate fellow students' assignments in accordance with given guidelines.

The course will be taught in Norwegian.

Compulsory activities

Prepared participation in 80% of specified seminars.

An assignment during the semester (in groups of 1-2)

Co-student assessment of this compulsory assignment (in the same groups of 1-2 students).

Compulsory assignments

• Prepared participation in 80% of specified seminars
• An assignment during the semester (in groups of 1-2) and co-student assessment of the assignment

Further on evaluation

Compulsory activities described above and specified at the start of the semester must be passed in order to sit for the exam.

Home exam in the form of an assignment over a week. The students can decide whether they want to write and submit the assignment individually or as a group of 2 students.

The exam can be written in Norwegian or English.

Letter grade A-F

Exam registration requires that semester registration has been approved in the same semester.

No credit exam before the next ordinary exam in the course

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

Admission to master program

Course materials

To be announced at the start of the semester