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FEUP IET Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship

Organisational Behaviour and Leadership Course

Objectives, Skills and Learning Outcomes

Context:
In the context of the global market, the qualitative increase of training can be regarded as an inseparable condition from the progressive efficiency of  organisations.  Even though the confrontation with an uncertain and complex environment represents a factor of instability, it also represents an important challenge to the ability of managing change as a factor of organisational development.
Thus, it is important to train leaders with essential knowledge and skills of performance increase in the domain of human capital. It will enable them to mobilize an important potential to carry out initiatives which aim not only to improve professional performances, but also a systematic improvement of the ways of work organisation with positive consequences in organisational behaviour. It will thus increment the availability of diverse professionals to work in a group towards a common objective.

Objectives:

• To identify the most common ways of work organisation, the different types of structures and the main constituent elements of organisation culture; to define the most significant behavioural factors which facilitate/inhibit leadership success in entrepreneurship contexts;
• o apply intervention techniques of generation of change, to command leadership strategies, to use negotiation skills and control collaborators performance using practical instruments to run the individual and group action in the sense of meeting organisational objectives.
• To interiorise the necessary changes to a new attitude of generation of innovation, development of a leadership profile and the increase of entrepreneurship capacities. To be aware that a good group performance is the key factor of a leader’s performance, which intervention has to guarantee a constant qualification of his/her team(s), as well as the progressive efficiency at the organisational behaviour level.

Program

Human behaviour in organisations
Teamwork management
Interaction control and conflict resolution
Evolution of models of work organisation
Organisational structure and culture
Strategic analysis and change in organisations
Leadership and group management
Management of different leadership styles
Techniques of professional negotiation
Techniques for successful presentations

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