CEMS402 Global Leadership (E)

• Topics

  Leadership in a global context requires the ability to manage both oneself and others across boundaries of culture, identity and power. This course treats global leadership as a development process that starts with self-awareness, expands to leading others (across cultural and ethical boundaries) and ends in responsible collective leadership.

  One aim of this course is to ensure that you fulfil the new CEMS graduate competencies:

  1) Our graduates have a clear grasp of the context in which they operate:

  • International business practitioners

  2) Our graduates lead their organization with the highest ethical standards and enable individual growth, both personally and in those that they lead and work with:

  • Ethical, responsible and inclusive citizens
  • Reflective and resilient leaders

  3) Our graduates draw on data and technology and use evidence to drive business transformation and innovatively solve problems:

  • Data and business technology advocates
  • Business transformation drivers
  • Evidence based innovative problem solvers

  This course is particularly relevant for items 1) and 2), but also touches elements of 3).

• Learning outcome

  Leadership involves managing oneself and others. In this course, a variety of teaching methods will be used to stimulate class participation and interact with the course contents.

  Upon successful completion of the course, you can:

  Knowledge

  • Identify key traits of effective global leaders and analyse the contextual factors that influence global leadership.
  • Analyse how personal values, character and identity influence leadership style, decision-making and authenticity across cultures.
  • Understand how diversity, culture and organisational context shape leadership opportunities and constraints in local and global settings.

  Skills

  • Reflect on the influence of one's own personality and culture on behaviour, decision-making and group dynamics.
  • Apply self-leadership practices (self-awareness, self-motivation, self-regulation) to enhance personal and professional growth.
  • Communicate effectively and deliver constructive feedback in diverse cultural settings.
  • Exercise critical thinking and decision-making under uncertainty, balancing stakeholder perspectives and long-term responsibility.

  General Competence

  • Act as responsible global citizens by linking leadership practices to sustainability, ethics, service, responsibility and social impact.
  • Strengthen interpersonal skills for collaboration and leadership in intercultural environments.
  • Engage in critical self-reflection to enhance personality development and leadership effectiveness.

• Teaching

  The course meets weekly, usually on campus, for 2-hour or 4-hour interactive sessions. Students are expected to prepare for each session according to instructions (advance reading, tasks, reflection)

• Restricted access

  This is a mandatory CEMS course reserved for CEMS students only.

• Credit reduction due to overlap

  INB431

• Compulsory Activity

  • Three reflection notes related to learning activities in the course.
  • Group term project. Students establish a fictional company, and use this to solve various tasks and report both in writing and orally.
  • Participants are expected to attend all of the classes and to notify the course responsible by e-mail before the lecture if an emergency or force majeure means they cannot attend. Students missing lectures can expect to do extra work to make up for the absence.

  Previously approved compulsory activities (work requirements) remain valid.

• Assessment

  At the end of the semester:

  Individual oral exam. The exam can last up to 40 minutes (20 minutes' preparation and 20 minutes' assessment).

  In addition to the curriculum in general, the oral exam might also include a discussion of the candidate's compulsory activities.

• Grading Scale

  A-F

• Computer tools

  All students are expected to bring a laptop or tablet to class.

• Literature

  Students create their own collection of readings/other learning materials, based on readings and learning materials available via Leganto in Canvas.