716803 VU Leadership and Change Management for the 21st Century
summer semester 2020 | Last update: 13.03.2020 | Place course on memo list1. Understand the fundamental environmental, social, and economic issues underlying sustainability
2. Understand a range of theories of leadership, change management and systems thinking
3. Ability to work collaborately across subject disciplines
4. Identify relevant aspects of the broader social, economic, political, technological and legislative environment, and potential levers for wider system impact
5. Embody the characteristics of a change agent for sustainability, including listening, building coalitions, systems thinking, identifying key leverage points, influencing/inspiring and communicating with others and resilience
6. Apply a range of methods that enhance critical thinking, reflection and mindfulness
7. Apply learning from best-practice cases
8. Frame and develop a strategy on a specific case to address a sustainability challenge
1. Leadership Theory
2. Change Management Theory
3. Systems Thinking and Critical Thinking Methods
4. Reflection and mindfulness methods
5. Framings (SDGs, IPCC, Laudato Si, ....)
6. Efficiency, consistency, Sufficiency and resilience
7. Fields of action; mobility, nutrition, household/energy, consumption....
8. Dilemma of current growth
9. Tragedy of the Commons
10. Anthropogenic Climate Change
11. Models for transformation
12. Case Studies (Fridays4Future, Allianz Nachhaltige Universitäten in Östereich, .....)
13. Business games
Impulse lectures and elaboration of transformation themes
combined
will be discussed in the first session
none
- Interdisciplinary and additional courses