Strategy, Organisation and Leadership
It is a time of transitions in the business community with increasing globalisation, sustainability efforts and digitalisation on the agenda. To act and contribute in tomorrow's emerging business community, skills related to strategy, organisational change and leadership are emphasised. These topics are in focus in this programme, which gives students relevant knowledge, skills, and competences for the future.
The MSc programme in Strategy, Organisation and Leadership (SOL) is a generalist degree programme that opens the door to a variety of jobs. The programme emphasises a holistic and cross-functional approach to organisations. The underlying assumption behind everything we teach our students is that humans are the biggest assets of any organisation, and that they lay the foundation for its success. We use classic as well as state-of-the-art research to convey knowledge on how to understand and work with challenges related to corporate and competitive strategy, organisational change, digitalisation, human development, performance and engagement.
The MSc in Strategy, Organisation and Leadership (SOL) is aimed at qualifying you to a wide variety of functions in private and public organisations. The programme provides you with a number of fundamental theoretical and analytical qualifications. You thereby acquire basic knowledge as well as a broad selection of methods and tools, which will enable you to contribute to resolving specific organisational and managerial problems.
Students following the programme in Strategy, Organisation and Leadership will acquire competences relevant to running private or public organisations from a managerial point of view.
More specifically, after graduation the student will be able to:
- Master social science methodologies and tools to analyse, assess and facilitate leadership and organising processes in complex, changing, and often unpredictable contexts.
- To assess and work with human aspects of effectiveness, performance, development, and engagement of the workforce.
- To collect information, synthesise and integrate various strategic perspectives and practices of different specialist professions.
Most common types of work for graduates 1-2 years after finishing their degree:
- Anasysis and/or evaluation
- Data collection and/or processing
- Business development
- Project management
- Strategy development and/or implementation
