Learning Objectives / Competencies:
After completing the module, students are able to act as "Innovation Leaders" and therefore live or develop a corporate culture and corporate strategy for a "Green-/Innovation-Organization" in a modern way. The several months of exposure to the leadership of green/innovative companies gives a student in particular the opportunity to build innovative leadership skills via an "independent idea concept" that touches on the strategy, structure and culture of such companies and to convince others of one's own novel and forward-looking ideas.
After completing the module, students will be able to:
- Professional competence:
- Intrapreneurship: Creation of new business strategies, cultures and structure matching Green Organizations (hubs, labs, startups, units)
- definition of "Innovation / Intrapreneurial Leadership" in distinction to a) entrepreneurs and b) traditional managers
- Ideation: design competence through the software-based visualization of a future-oriented leadership/organizational idea
- Methodological competence:
- Expert interviews (interviews with selected executives to reflect on the new strategic, structural, cultural organization/leadership concept)
- Innovation Roadmapping (formulation and visualization of the leadership/organizational idea for green / innovative organizations)
- Qualitative research methodology (based on a structured guide)
- Use of new visualization software
- Social competence:
- In the context of students' online lectures with module leaders and guest lecturers (as well as fellow students)
- In the context of enabling tandems for mutual (supportive) reflection in the context of own idea development
- In the context of facilitating exchanges with experts from hubs / labs / startups for feedback on one's own leadership/organizational concept under development
- Self-competence: Fostering strategic and managerial thinking through concept formulation, taking into account one's own idea: building a strategically thought-out and independently developed concept
Contents:
- Examples of "Green Organizations" and their characteristics: A consideration of Green Organizations in the context of strategy, structure, culture, and leadership
- Green Organizations as a component of the ambidextry model (efficiency management and innovation management)
- Innovation Leadership in selected Hubs / Labs / Startups as a model for new strategy and culture concepts in companies
- Innovation Leadership (communication and cooperation) for more "Impact" (Green / Sustainable Value Chain), besides Output and Outcome
- Innovation Leadership along the 4 A's: (Anticipation): Ability to anticipate new business images; (Approaches): Choosing the right approaches to change (e.g., reorganization, change management, innovation management); (Action): Determining action (idea implementation); (actors): Managing expectations/interests of different actors
- Change in leadership narrative: leadership as mutual behavioral influence of employees and leadership as joint innovation performance of employees (liquid leadership, liquid organization; single loop and double loop mindset)
- Innovation leader as idea role model / pattern breaker (different qualities and new values of Iinovative leaders based on green sustainable thinking)
- Innovation leader dealing with forms of acceptance/resistance among employees and senior executives
- Innovation Leader responsible for new work/organizational worlds or New Work Cultures (Strategies): green, sustainable, digital, innovative
Teaching and learning methods:
- The module work focuses on an empirical investigation in a company area (e.g. department) or a smaller company unit for which an innovation idea is developed. This qualitative investigation (interviews) comprises approx. 1/3 of the scope (methodology, field of investigation, questionnaire/guideline, evaluation, assessment) of the entire study.
- The modular work is based on the visualized development of a concept idea, e.g. a digital, green, innovative "space or hub" for the selected business area, in the form of selected software for 2-D or 3-D designs. This part covers more than 1/3 of the scope of this study, where the student as a leader conceptualizes an independent culture, strategy, structure.
Teaching and learning methods:
- Group work and self-study
- personality tests
- Group and individual presentations
- Presentations/Exercises
- field trip
- case studies
Value of the grade in the final grade of the master's degree (master's certificate): 6 / 90
Literature:
References will be identified/presented by instructors in the objective sheet for each semester of study.
Basic literature:
- Blane, Hugh 2017: 7 Principles of Transformational Leadership: Create a Mindset of Passion, Innovation, and Growth.
- Hawkins, Peter 2021: Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership.
- Martin, Ken 2022: Transformational Leadership: How to Achieve Success and Avoid Failure.
- Shepherd, Quintin & Williamson, Sarah 2022: The Secret of Transformational Leadership.