Courses Major IB / IBE Organization


What kinds of organization courses are offered?

The Department of Organization & Strategy offers two tracks for an Organization major: one for IB (International Business) and one for IBE (International Business Economics). Both tracks have an educational approach in common. Several keywords may describe our educational approach:

  • Practice: The job oriented practice that the tracks target is consultancy, both external consulting and internal management consulting.
  • Critical: The student learns to think in a critical manner. An advisor has an open and independent mind.
  • Analysis: The student is confronted with first rate academic papers. Discussing them in the group in a prepared way helps to understand and synthesize these insights.
  • Skills: A variety of educational tools makes the courses lively. It helps students to develop relevant skills: presentations, writing assignment, role playing, and case discussions.
  • International: An international dimension occurs in every course.

Organization Major in IB/IBE

The IB major in Organization consists of the following four courses: Organization design (EBC2047), Organizational behavior (EBC2048), Comparative Management (EBC2067), and Crisis management in organizations (EBC2100).

  • Organization Design  Knowledge about major organizational theories, models and concepts, their strengths and weaknesses through a comparison of contrasting approaches Competence to apply the theoretical and conceptual ideas to concrete empirical cases and problems, to manage conflicting perspectives, ambiguity, paradox and contradiction, and to analyze organizations in the context of the fundamental and persistent tensions that characterize all organizational efforts
  • Organizational Behavior After the completion of this course students should - be familiar with advanced theories of organizational behavior (OB) that help in understanding why people and groups in organizations behave as they do; - be able to read, understand and critically evaluate different types of academic literature: large-scale studies, case studies, theoretical articles, and review articles; - be able to conduct reasonably sophisticated discussions about conflicting approaches and to form well-founded and - where necessary - critical opinions on these approaches; - be able to apply OB concepts for diagnosing and analyzing problems in organizations and to use this knowledge for suggesting and evaluating problem solutions.
  • Comparative Management The main objective of this course is to provide students with the insight that people all over the globe could be programmed "mentally" in rather different ways. The naïve idea that the Anglo-Saxon approach to management, organisation and leadership is sufficient equipment for an international manager to have things done everywhere, should be buried deep. Even if people say "yes" to him or her, the international manager-to-be should be aware of the fact that sender and recipient do not have automatically an identical message in their minds. A well-versed international manager should be able to analyse his/her experiences on a deeper level, and behave accordingly. By following this course, a student could improve his/her intercultural awareness, knowledge and skills.
  • Crisis Management in organizations This course will help you to understand; - the causes of an organizational crisis - why it is so difficult to anticipate them - the complexity of crisis management.