Course syllabus

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ENM130 ENM130 Managing stakeholders for sustainable development lp2 HT20 (7.5 hp)

The course is offered by the department of Technology Management and Economics

Here you can download the full syllabus (incl. schedule and deadlines): course_syllabus_MSSD_2020-1.pdf

Course aims and learning outcomes

This course is about how people can contribute to change society by influencing societal processes. The aim of this course is that you understand how stakeholders can create change by engaging in participatory processes. The aim is also that you understand how social issues have relevance for the outcome of a change process. After this course you should be able to

• Identify the multiplicity of perspectives that make a sustainability issue by formulating the problem of how the perspectives in the sustainability issues are interrelated.
• Identify the stakeholders that can influence or have a stake in the formulated problem of the sustainability issue by interconnecting the stakeholders and explain how the arguments lead to the different perspectives and conflicts of interest.
• Design a stakeholder participation process for changing a sustainability issue where the stakeholders’ positions and willingness to change are justified in a stakeholder dialogue.
• Analyse and explain the intervention of the stakeholder dialogue by evaluating and reflecting on how the stakeholders can contribute to a sustainable systems change

Changes from last year

• From ‘in classroom’ to ‘flipped classroom’ created a possibility to restructure instructions, lectures, workshops and projects.
• New course staff and examiner
• New examination process
• Content focus less on company’s stakeholder management and CSR, more on issue-focused participatory stakeholder processes

Course organisation

The course is organised in hybrid teaching, meaning that lectures and individual work will be supported online, while there is an option for groupwork either in person (in a classroom) or online. For both options there is access to teacher support. The learning material will be published on Canvas one week at the time and new learning material will be published on Fridays. The course is scheduled 10 hours a week, which is half of the amount of work in the course. The students’ own work makes up the rest, so plan to use the equal amount of time for your own work outside scheduled hours.

Lectures and seminars

The lectures will be pre-recorded videos of two types, in-house lectures and guest lecture interviews. The inhouse lectures are supported by the course literature. The guest lectures are pre-recorded interviews and the guest lecturer will be invited to participate during the Friday seminar to give you an opportunity to discuss the week’s theme or ask questions. In preparation for the Friday seminars you are expected to have watched the videos and reviewed the literature to fully be able to reflect on and contribute to the discussion at the seminar.  

Individual assignments, Projects, Workshops and Peer-responses

The individual assignment and the groupwork are a part of the project of your group’s sustainability issue where you each week prepare material for the stakeholder dialogue and your report “100-day road map for change”. The first four weeks include an individual assignment (IA) that focus on different steps in the stakeholder management process. The IA should be handed in on Canvas at the very latest on the Wednesday 12:00 (lunchtime – we use Swedish hours to indicate assignment deadlines). The IA is peer reviewed by four other course students on Canvas. To remind you all, a peer review is a friendly activity with the focus to help your peers to improve their work by asking critical questions and suggesting alternative perspectives. Including the received comments, the IA is then further processed into constructive material in the group assignment (GA). The group work will be supported by workshops on different stakeholder management tools.

Course literature

See module 'course literature' for up-to-date list

Contact details

Invited Guest lecturers

Assessment of the course

This course uses continuous examination, which means that you by the end of the course will achieve a grade 3, if all of your course work is approved. To achieve a grade 5, you need to do an extra assignment (EA). Passing requires 60 p and gives grade 3; grade 4 requires 72p and a grade 5 requires 96 p.

Grades and passing requirements

In the table below you will find the grading of the course activities. In the course it is possible to achieve 120 p in total. During week 1-6 you can collect 66 points, including quizzes but excluding the report. For signing up to the EA you need to have collected at least 54 points during week 1-6.

You will find the assessment criteria for the individual assignments (IA), peer responses (PR), presentations and reports on Canvas under the module “Assessment”. Your presence in the workshops assigns you 1 point each.

The scheme of the continuous examination

The extra assignment - How to get a 5 in the course

The extra assignment for grade 5 will be an essay on the topic “How social issues have relevance for the outcome of a change process by evaluating and reflect about how stakeholder influence can contribute to a sustainable systems change”. The assignment will be handed in on Friday Dec 18 at 17.00. The essay should be between 3000 and 3500 words long.

You choose the title of the essay as well as how the essay’s content is organised in subheadings. It is expected that you use relevant literature from the course and other literature with relevance to the essay’s topic. It is also expected that the text is well written, structured, and backs up arguments with relevant examples. We suggest that you start thinking about issues to include and the organisation of the essay early in the course. You will find the assessment criteria in the module “Assessment” on Canvas at the end of week 4.

Schedule

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