Course overview
This course provides students with theoretical and practical knowledge of complexity in the organisational context and explores its impact on organisational management and leadership, business strategy, and business conduct. The course critically explores ways in which actors practice in organisations where complexity, unpredictability and uncertainty are a part of everyday life.
Students completing the course develop a body of knowledge that:
Contributes to a comprehensive and integrated application of complexity in the organisational context to recent developments in the field of senior organisational management and leadership in international business environments.
Provides a pathway for further learning.
Course learning outcomes
- Acquire a body of knowledge of, and critically reflect on, theoretical and practice-based principles of business process improvement and its impacts on organisational management and leadership.
- Critically assess and evaluate different approaches to business process improvement and the use of strategy-led balanced scorecards and dashboards in aligning business strategy for optimisation of business process improvement initiatives.
- Apply principles of business process improvement to organisational management and leadership in international business environments.