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Stein Kleppestø . Photo

Stein Kleppestø

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Stein Kleppestø . Photo

Technology Management: a cross-disciplinary master program with a focus on Leadership

Author

  • Charlotta Johnsson
  • Carl-Henric Nilsson
  • Stein Kleppestø

Summary, in English

Leadership is important. Management is important. However, leadership and management is not the same thing, in fact they are fundamentally different. In a cross disciplinary master programme named Technology Management at Lund University, Sweden, the students are given opportunities to study and learn management, however, what makes the program unique is its profound focus on leadership. The Technology Management programme includes six courses, Teamwork and Leadership being one of them. In this course, theories and knowledge in leadership is learnt and discussed, this is then intertwined into the other courses in which it is practiced, and finally the outcome is brought back to the Teamwork and Leadership course for further discussions. In addition to this the students are writing daily reflections in a so called Learning Journal, over a one-year period, making it possible for the students to reflect over and thereby shaping shape their own leadership style and mindset. Course evaluations and placement reports indicates that the students learning about theories, practice and mindset related to leadership is the ranked as the most valuable learning from their entire educational curricula/period.

Department/s

  • Department of Automatic Control
  • Department of Business Administration

Publishing year

2016-10-26

Language

English

Pages

40-46

Publication/Series

Engineering Management Research

Volume

5

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Canadian Center of Science and Education

Topic

  • Engineering and Technology
  • Humanities

Keywords

  • Leadership
  • leadership development
  • Technology Management
  • Higher education

Status

Published

Project

  • Technology Management and Leadership

Research group

  • LCCC

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1927-7326