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N. Kobza, T. Schaefer, R. Glawar:
"How can we learn leadership? The vision of the Europe-wide University";
AI & Society Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication, 08/2015 (2015).

In the view of many students, business and
engineering education in Europe today do not sufficiently
take into account complex problems, tendencies of chaos
and uncontrollable business behaviour, and the lack of
mutual trust in business transactions. Additionally, universities
seem to fail in creating leaders, instead focusing
on educating future managers. Therefore, the student-run
international organisation the European Students of
Industrial Engineering and Management (ESTIEM) offers
a whole series of educational activities and programmes in
parallel to their own university courses. It is based on the
concept of experiential learning. Through ESTIEM, we,
students of Industrial Engineering Management, learn and
practise working in teams with shared and rotating leadership
among ourselves. These experiences are to be
described in the paper in some more detail, as a model for
university education in industrial engineering and management.
Furthermore, the following questions will be
tackled: What does leadership mean today? How are
problems handled by leaders and managers in industry
nowadays? How can leadership to solve complex problems
be taught in the university? As a consequence, it is suggested
to develop out of the ESTIEM programmes, a series
of university-equivalent ESTIEM courses. In the long term,
the goal might be to realise the vision of a genuine Europewide
``ESTIEM University´´ in its own right, similar to
normal universities which will help in shaping new leadership
generation in Europe.

Leadership, Education, Experiential learning, Business, Chaos, Europe

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/S00146-015-0616-5

http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_244955.pdf