New Leadership & Organizational Behaviour

Department

Master's program International Business & Management

Course unit code

IB&L-M-4-M_16-LOB-ILV-O

Number of ECTS credits allocated

Name of lecturer(s)

FH-Prof. Dr. Kittler Markus, Assoz. FH-Prof. Mag. (FH) Kohlberger Martina, PhD

Recommended optional program components

none

Recommended or required reading

Allison, S.; Goethals, G. R.; Syprou S. (2020): Donald Trump as the Archetypal Puer Aeternus: The Psychology of Mature and Immature Leadership. In: Kristin M.S. Bezio und George R. Goethals (Hg.): Leadership, Populism, and Resistance: Edward Elgar Publishing, S. 160-175.

Eagly, A. H.; Karau, S. J. (2002): Role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders. In: Psychological review 109 (3), S. 573-598. DOI: 10.1037//0033-295X.109.3.573.

Haslam, S. Alexander; Alvesson, Mats; Reicher, Stephen D. (2024): Zombie leadership: Dead ideas that still walk among us. In: The Leadership Quarterly, S. 101770. DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101770.

Northouse, Peter G. (2022): Leadership. Theory and practice. Ninth Edition. Los Angeles: SAGE Publishing.

Ridgway, M.; Oldridge, L.; Mavin, S. (2025): ‘Leading' by example? Gendered language in Human Resource job adverts.
In: Human Res Mgmt Journal 35 (1), S. 1-24. DOI: 10.1111/1748-8583.12549.

Seliger, Ruth (2014): The jungle book of leadership. A navigation system for leaders. 1. ed. Heidelberg: Carl Auer.

Sender, A.; Mormann, H. (2024): It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane: How and When HR Executives Use Jesting Techniques to Trickle Up Paradoxical Tensions. In: Journal of Management Inquiry, Artikel 10564926241239546. DOI: 10.1177/10564926241239546.

Yukl, Gary A. (op. 2013): Leadership in organizations. Global edition. 8th ed. Harlow (England): Pearson Education.Alvesson, Mats; Einola, Katja (2019): Warning for excessive positivity: Authentic leadership and other traps in leadership studies. In: The Leadership Quarterly 30 (4), S. 383-395. DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.04.001.
Bezio, Kristin M.S.; Goethals, George R. (Hg.) (2020): Leadership, Populism, and Resistance: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Lavy, Shiri; Littman-Ovadia, Hadassah (2017): My Better Self. In: Journal of Career Development 44 (2), S. 95-109. DOI: 10.1177/0894845316634056.

Ramsey, Laura R. (2017): Agentic traits are associated with success in science more than communal traits. In: Personality and Individual Differences 106, S. 6-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.10.017.

Ryan, Michelle K.; Haslam, S. Alexander (2007): The glass cliff: Exploring the dynamics surrounding the appointment of women to precarious leadership positions. In: The Academy of Management Review 32 (2), S. 549-572. DOI: 10.2307/20159315.

Ryan, Michelle K.; Haslam, S. Alexander; Hersby, Mette D.; Bongiorno, Renata (2011): Think crisis-think female: The glass cliff and contextual variation in the think manager-think male stereotype. In: Journal of Applied Psychology 96 (3), S. 470-484. DOI: 10.1037/a0022133.

Schedlitzki, Doris; Edwards, Gareth (2022): Studying leadership. Traditional and critical approaches. Third edition. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC, Melbourne: SAGE.

Simmons, Sara V.; Yawson, Robert M. (2022): Developing Leaders for Disruptive Change: An Inclusive Leadership Approach. In: Advances in Developing Human Resources 24 (4), S. 242-262. DOI: 10.1177/15234223221114359.

Level of course unit

Master

Year of study

Fall 2025

Semester when the course unit is delivered

Language of instruction

English

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will be familiar with different approaches to corporate management in an international,
intercultural and virtual context. They know relevant management and leadership theories and practical approaches as well as the ongoing changes in organizations and challenges for managers in an increasingly internationalized business world.
Students will acquire professional skills, techniques and practices of develop applied leadership and critically reflect on leader-centred theories in practice.

Course contents

Leadership
- Leadership in international companies and corporations
- Leadership personalities and styles
- Leadership in culturally diverse and virtual spaces
- Conflict management
Organizational Behavior
- Concept, characteristics and basics of corporate culture
- Identification, integration and coordination function of corporate culture
- Embedding human behavior in different organizational contexts
- Dealing with, shaping and safeguarding social rules, processes, functions and structures with the aim of
and structures with the aim of controlling and influencing human behavior in organizations.
and to influence
- Consideration of formal and informal expectations of individual participants
- Introduction to social systems theory
Design and control of change processes

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course comprises an interactive mix of lectures, discussions and individual and group work.

Work placement(s)

none

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