Leadership and business sustainability

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course provides students with an understanding of the role of sustainable development in business. The course is designed to enable students to master the concept of leadership, the functions of leadership and to be able to independently solve management challenges in a dynamically changing environment, to know the needs of the team and to be able to apply the acquired theoretical knowledge in practice in companies and public institutions.

CONTENT

1. Basic concepts of leadership. Functions of leadership. Leadership or management. The role of leadership. How? What? Why? Team building; values, goals and objectives of a good team
2. Forms of leadership intelligence. Organisational structure and its impact on the leadership process, Roles of team members. Leadership methods, team leadership models, team leader skills and qualities profile, performance indicators
3. Different levels of the economic environment (mundo, macro, meso and micro) and the role of the team leader in each of them. Team communication, feedback and reflection in management processes
4. Systems approach, innovation in economic development and entrepreneurship. Management functions and environment. Climate change and environmental challenges in economic processes
5. The concept of circular economy, its role in the development of economic systems. Impact of biodiversity loss, intelligent use of products and materials
6. Societal initiatives, circular economy principles, advantages and obstacles, risk management, industrial revolutions
7. Material value chains, their transformation for sustainable development
8. Renewable energy, waste management, circular economy solutions for sustainable development. Environmental protection