Management Game

Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences

Version 10.0 of 12/09/2020

22M0622

Management Game

Research and Innovation in Higher Education (M.Sc.)

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• Block 1: Birds eye view on various HE management aspects
• 1. University structures, actors, roles and interests
• 2. Strategic management
• 3. Leadership and change
• 4. Resource allocation
  
  Block 2: Management game 1: reorganise a curriculum Different stakeholders have to agree on the reorganization of the curricula of university programmes. Issues to decide on include the speed of the reforms, the rewards for faculty, approval procedures and the way of process monitoring.
  
  Block 3: Management game 2: decline in student numbers Participants are assigned to roles and university functions and have to respond to a decline in student numbers while preserving a long term financial viable situation for a university. How do various stakeholders match the individual (unit) interest with the collective university interest? How do we bargain, lobby and calculate for the best results? How do the participants evaluate their own behaviour? What leadership styles are used? And do we reach an overall viable university strategy?
  
  Block 4: Presentations of individual students Participants present on their real life experiences with managerial roles, styles and strategic behaviour of themselves or others in their current or previous jobs and how they deal with tension, conflicts of interest and responsibilities.

Knowledge Broadening
Student have an understanding of the different roles of different functions within higher education institutions.

Students are able to combine different types of knowledge and (soft) skills in the area of higher education Management.

They are active and creative in dealing with major challenges facing higher education institutions and influencing different stakeholders within these institutions.
Knowledge Deepening

Instrumental Skills and Competences

Communicative Skills and Competences

Systemic Skills and Competences

Management game, practical exercise, presentations

Vossensteyn, Hans

Vossensteyn, Hans

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Harvard ManageMentor (2003), Leading and motivating, A practical guide to realizing the power of people, Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing (read pp. 1-28).

Knight, P.T. and P.R. Trowler (2001), Departmental leadership in higher education, Chapters 1 and 2: Changing; Leadership theory, leadership practice, Buckingham: SRHE and Open University Press (3-46).

Kotter, J.P. (1996) Leading change, Part II The eight-stage process, Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing (pp. 33-158, read quickly).

Massy, W.F. (2006), Reengineering resource allocation systems.

In the reader you will find further reading.

Practical Exercise

1 Term

Only Winter Term

German and English