Management and Leadership is a full-time master's programme lasting four semesters at SWPS University, with classes on weekday afternoons and evenings. It helps you find your own path as a leader by blending practical business skills with psychological insight into how teams and organisations work.
The programme starts from the view that emotions and irrational factors shape decision making and consumer behaviour, so psychology is part of effective leadership. You learn to combine rational thinking with mature intuition, to manage your own feelings and those of others, and to run socially responsible organisations built on lasting relationships with customers. Digital transformation, innovation and the management of remote, interdisciplinary teams complete the picture.
Teaching is active: workshops, interactive seminars, case studies, group projects, debates and simulations. In strategic management, for instance, you analyse the strategy of a chosen company, assess its strengths and weaknesses and propose changes. Throughout the studies runs the Leader's Path, which begins with an assessment of your competences and self-management, moves on to building relationships and developing others, and then to team psychology and coping with organisational change. Individual tutoring is available, though entirely optional.
Choose your track
You build a portfolio of group projects commissioned by business and organisational partners, guided by business and academic mentors:
Towards the end of the two years, the leadership and management skills you have gained are assessed and a career plan is developed together with you. Which direction it takes depends on your track: the Manager track points towards medium and large organisations, the Entrepreneur track towards your own business.
Based on the programme pages at swps.pl.
