Management and Leadership

• Programme: four pillars of modern management
• Specialisation: two specialisations after the first year
• Placements: internships built into the curriculum
• After graduation: roles open to graduates

Management and Leadership is a three-year, full-time bachelor's programme taught in English at SWPS University. It suits people who want to lead teams and organisations by combining business tools with insight from psychology, sociology and economics.

Programme: four pillars of modern management

The programme rests on four pillars. Management provides the methods and techniques needed to run organisations, psychology explains how individuals and teams work and how to build environments that support collaboration, sociology adds research methods for evidence-based decisions, and economics helps you follow global trends and analyse risk.

Learning is experiential: you take part in workshops and business simulations and work on real projects with business partners. Along the way you build skills in management methods and tools, self-management and leadership, communication and negotiation, setting up and funding a business, designing social innovations and analysing business data. The first year covers how organisations work and how to use data in decisions, the second moves on to sales, customer relations, change management, finance and innovation, and the final semester focuses on sustainable development, people management and team psychology.

Specialisation: two specialisations after the first year

After the first year you choose one of two specialisations. Start-ups is for those who dream of launching their own venture: you learn to develop and verify business ideas, win clients, identify funding sources and shape a business strategy. Project Management is for future project managers: you work with both traditional and agile methodologies, planning and monitoring tools, and learn to communicate with teammates and stakeholders.

Placements: internships built into the curriculum

Business internships start in the first year and are part of the curriculum, alongside a community project, an organisation development project and an organisation improvement project run for business partners. In the third year you compile a professional graduation portfolio instead of a customary bachelor's thesis.

After graduation: roles open to graduates

The programme prepares you for roles such as:

• Project Manager, coordinating projects and teams with agile and Scrum methods
• Start-up Founder, developing a product or service and a growth strategy
• Business Development Manager, spotting growth opportunities and new markets
• Product Owner, guiding product development towards user needs and business goals
• Business Analyst, analysing trends and formulating recommendations
• Agile Coach, helping organisations adopt agile practices

Based on the programme pages at swps.pl.

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