Basics of Leadership and Management (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

Having completed this study unit

• You know key principles and concepts of leadership and management
• You know the importance of leadership and management when setting and achieving goals
• You know the importance of working-life skills
• You know the importance of self-awareness and self-management in leadership and management
• You are able to self-reflect your own role in an organisation and you understand individual and group behavior in organizations.
• You are able to recognize and evaluate your own and your teams' strengths and know-how
• You know the importance of career planning

Competences: Operating in a Workplace Competence, Ethics Competence, Learning to Learn Competence, Responsible Management and Leadership Competence

Content

- Principles on leadership and management
- Working-life skills
- Self-management and self-awareness
- Own and team’s strengths and know-how
- Career planning

Location and time

Teaching is carried out at the Rovaniemi campus in the Autumn semester of 2025.
No distance learning possibility.

Materials

Lecture materials, articles and exercises - will be provided during the course.

Teaching methods

Organized lectures
Independent knowledge acquisition activities
Individual Assignments
Group Assignments
Demonstration of competence by Problem-Based Task report(s)

Employer connections

In collaboration with real company commissioner(s).

Exam schedules

No alternatives as this is a Problem-based course.

Completion alternatives

No alternatives as this is a Problem-based course.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Level 1
Basic organisational behaviour and leadership theories
You know the fundamentals of personnel competence and supervisory and subordinate skills.
You can identify and assess both your own skills and the strengths of team members.
You recognize the importance of motivation and well-being in a diverse and multicultural work community.
You can name challenges in the working life and are aware of change as a part of the work community and its activities.

Level 2
Basic organisational behaviour and leadership theories
You can describe the fundamentals of personnel competence and supervisory and subordinate skills.
You can describe and assess both your own skills and the strengths of team members.
You recognize ways to develop motivation and well-being in a diverse and multicultural work community.
You are aware of the challenges in working life and understand change as a part of the work community and its activities.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Level 3
Basic organisational behaviour and leadership theories
You understand the fundamentals of personnel competence and supervisory and subordinate skills.
You understand the significance of your own skills and the skills of team members.
You understand the importance of developing motivation and well-being in a diverse and multicultural work community.
You know the challenges in working life and are aware of change as a part of the work community and its activities.

Level 4
Basic organisational behaviour and leadership theories
You have a command of the fundamentals of personnel competence and supervisory and subordinate skills.
You are able to assess your own skills and those of your team members.
You are able to evaluate the importance of developing motivation and well-being in a diverse and multicultural work community.
You are able to take into account the challenges and changes in working life.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Level 5
Basic organisational behaviour and leadership theories
You have a holistic understanding of the significance of personnel competence in the functioning of the organization and as a success factor.
You are able to constructively assess your own skills and those of team members and make development suggestions.
You can foresee the significance of changes in working life.

Qualifications

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