Management and Leadership (MANN26DIAK)

Contents:
• Management and leadership theory and practice
• Management strategies
• Organisational theories
• Welfare at work

The students will be able to:
• understand different management and leadership theories and practices
• recognise management strategies applied in organisations in the field of social work and community development work
• analyse organisational theories and their application in social work and community work practice
• understand the importance of welfare at work
• apply leadership approaches and practices at work in different organizations

This study module consists of so called non-syncronised studies. This means that student works on the materials and assignments independently and according their own timetables. However, taking part in one of the supervision sessions is compulsary.

While other assignments are done individually, work-life interview can be conducted also in pairs.

-independent studies
-compulsary on-line supervision

-recordings
-literature and other materials
-creating a mind-map
-discussion assignments
-work-life interview and a written report

Management and leadership videos for the mindmap assignment

Management and leadership approaches:
Two chapters from E-books and one article and Corporate Social Responsibility video:
E-books:
Arnold, M. (2022). Social work leadership and management : Current approaches and concepts for social and human service organisations. Springer International Publishing AG. Chapter 3 Leadership Research and its application to Social Work Practice and Chapter 4 Transformation of Leadership and Collaboration n Human Service Organisation. P. 33 – 63.

Macintosh, Robert., O´Gorman, Kevin. (2015) Introducing Management in Global Context. The Global management series. Chapter 1:. 20th century management thoughts:p.12-19, Chapter 5 Managing people: practice and theory; Chapter 6: Managing change, Chapter 9: Managing quality. Goodfellow Publisher Ltd. E-book.'
Articles:
Karreinen, S., Paatela, S., Paananen, H., Huhtakangas, M., Satokangas, M., Jalonen, H., . . . yksikkö, J. (2025). Making integrated care happen: Middle managers’ views on leadership for promoting multidisciplinary collaboration at the early stage of the Finnish social and healthcare reform. Elsevier.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851025000764?via%3Dihub
Sullivan, W. Patrick. 2016. Leadership in social work. Journal of Social Work Education. Supplement. Vol. 52 issue. sup 1. p. S51-S61.
Tammeaid, M., Virtanen, P., Meyer, J., yliopisto, V., Vaasa, U. o., yksikkö, J., & Management, S. o. (2022). Leadership meta-skills in public institutions. Springer.

Welfare at work material:
You can choose 3 materials below:
Workplace health promotion and wellbeing
•ILO Occupational health and safety management systems
•Ministry of Social Affairs and Health: Assessment report Work2030 programme and legislation on Occupational Health and Safety
•Weld, N. (2023). Applying the therapeutic function of professional supervision : Attending to the emotional impacts of human service work. Taylor & Francis Group. Chapters 4, 5, 7 and 8. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/diak/detail.action?docID=7184836
Legislation

•Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment in Finland: Labour legislation
•Non-discrimination Act (1325/2014) in Finland
•Act on Equality between Women and Men (609/1986, amendments up to 915/2016 included)
•The Center for Occupational Safety: Occupational health services at workplace
Handbooks

•The Center for Occupational safety: Working together handbook
•Finnish Institute of Occupational Health: How to support mental health through leadership, see also Mental Health support Toolkit
HR literature:
•Shultz, Cecile., van der Walt, Hugo. 2015. Reinventing HR: Strategic and Organisational Relevance of the Human Resources Function. Knowres Publishing. E-book. Chapter 4: Leadership and meaning. Chapter 6: Workplace socialisation.

135h of student work during minimum of 5 weeks

-Assignments 1-4 are graded pass-to be resubmitted
-Assignment 5 is graded numerally (1-5)
-Grade of the assignment 5 is your numeral grade of the course (evaluation matrix is used in Diakle).

0-5

No exams.