Bachelor's degree, consisting of 180 credits. The equivalent English 6 in of Swedish upper secondary school.

The course is included in the main area Leadership and Organisation at advanced level of 91-120 credits.

The aim of the course is for the students to develop knowledge and a critical understanding of the effects of major societal challenges such as globalization, environmental change and digitalization on organizations and leadership together with an understanding of changes and resistance within organizations.

The course focuses on the effects of societal challenges in relation to Leadership and Organization. The course introduces and problematizes concepts such as change, power and resistance.

The course consists of two modules:

1. Societal challenges – effects on Leadership and Organization (10 credits): In the first module the discourse concerning societal changes is deepened. This will be related to the effects of these changes on Leadership and Organization. Focus will be on questions such as new ways of working (time and space) and the effects of technical and enviromental changes.
2. Change, power and resistance (5 credits): To meet the challenges which organizations are facing, there must be alternative ways of leading and organizing. In the second module the focus will lie on change, power and resistance in relation to societal changes. Concepts such as interorganizational cooperation (private, public and non-profit sectors) organizational changes and implementation of changes will also be discussed.

After finishing the course the students shall be able to:

1. demonstrate the ability to apply alternative ways to lead and organize the work of an organization considering the effects of specific societal challenges.
2. demonstrate knowledge and a deepened understanding of how power and resistance are expressed in relation to changes from the perspective of both management and employees in complex interorganizational contexts.

The course consists of the following learning activities: lectures, group projects, case projects, compulsory seminars and presentations (peer-teaching).

• Module 1 (Learning outcome 1) is examined by means of an individual paper in which students investigate a concrete challenge and its effects from an international perspective (10 credits) (A-E, U).
• Module 2 (Learning outcome 2) is examined by means of a group project in which students identify a collaboration of interorganizational character on which they apply theoretical perspectives concerning change, power and resistance. This is examined as a written assignment (5 credits) (UG).

To pass the course the students need to pass all examinations of the course (15 credits). The course grade is based on the grade of the individual examination.

Mandatory literature connected to the course:

• Evans, J. (latest edition). Environmental governance. Routledge, London.
• Latour, B. (2018). Down-to-Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime. Polity, Cambridge.
• Wright, C. & Nyberg, D. (latest edition). Climate change, capitalism, and corporations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Articles and other material will be provided electronically.

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

If a course is no longer offered, or has undergone significant changes, the students must be offered two opportunities for re-examination based on the syllabus that applied at the time of registration, for a period of one year after the changes have been implemented.

If a student has a Learning support decision, the examiner has the right to provide the student with an adapted test, or to allow the student to take the exam in a different format.

The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text.