Short description
A three-day workshop will serve as a case study in which the students participate. This is followed by a reflection phase during which literature review and research will be applied to their experiences. Finally participants have to document their key findings and lessons learned in a written seminar work and prepare a presentation to transfer this new knowledge to their fellow students.

Topics

• Managing Human Resources
• Leadership
• Operations Organisation and Organisational Behaviour
• Project, Change and Conflict Management
• Competence Management and Delegation
• Teambuilding

Learning objectives

• Students will know how communication and cooperation can be designed.
• Students will know fundamentals about motivation and rewarding schemes.
• In a case setting, students will learn about coordination and decision taking.

Methods

• The participants will constantly be evaluated throughout this workshop by peer-review, performance review and the degree to which they have achieved their objectives. Project and Process Management will be applied as powerful Management Tools.

• The concept of the workshop is to create a simulation of real business situations. Because there does not exist any absolute formula for success the students are empowered and encouraged to find their own solutions. The lecturers in this module offer active guidance and feedback during this process. The students are also given time to reflect upon their experiences as the workshop progresses by writing a personal "Leadership Diary".

Compulsory reading
A list of references will be distributed in class in accordance with the content of the workshop.

Further reading

• Adams, J. S. (1965). Inequity in social exchange. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 267-299). New York: Academic Press.
• Armstrong, M. (2006): Strategic Human Resource Management: A Guide to Action. 3. Aufl., Thomson-Shore.
• Beel, J. (2007). Project Team Rewards - rewarding your project Team. First Edition. CreateSpace LLC, Scotts Valley, USA.
• Drucker, P. F. (1954). The Practice of Management. New York: Harper & Row.
• Herzberg, F. and Mausner, B. and Bloch Snyderman, B. (1993). The Motivation to Work (10th Edition). Transaction Publishers.
• Malik, F. (2006). Managing Performing Living. Campus Verlag
• Maslow, A. (1943). A Theory Of Human Motivation in Psychological Review 50 (4) pp. 370-96.

Please see moodle platform for further details about this year's workshop.

Short description
In the second Innovation Lab, students engage in a competitive collaboration challenge to develop innovative solutions for a real-life business problem.

Topics

• Innovation
• Competition
• Collaboration

Learning objectives

• Students will recognize the complex nature of the management of innovation within organizations.
• Students will apply innovation management frameworks, models and methods to the given task.
• Students will develop a sustainable solution for the selected case study.
• Students will evaluate the developed solution with appropriate methods regarding its advantages and constraints.

Methods

• The module integrates theoretical knowledge and practical skills in a competitive setting between students.
• A jury evaluates the students' solutions against innovativeness and usefulness and provides them with feedback and advice.
• The e-learning platform Moodle will be used throughout the course for the dissemination of course material and discussions.

Compulsory reading

• Trott, P. (2013). Innovation Management and New Product Development, 5th ed., Harlow: Pearson Education Limited.
• Ahmed, P. K. & Shepherd, C. D. (2011). Innovation Management: Context, Strategies, Systems and Processes, Harlow: Pearson Education Limited.

Die Studierenden lernen die grundlegenden logistischen Konzepte, Strategien und Philosophien in der Beschaffung, Produktion, Planung und Distribution kennen, sowie die Umsetzung dieser Konzepte und Strategien. Es geht dabei insbesondere um die Erkenntnis, dass in der Logistik der Systemgedanke und die Vernetzung von Anlagen, Informationen und Materialflüssen einen hohen Stellenwert haben. Die Studierenden verstehen Logistik als Querschnittsfunktion über unterschiedliche Unternehmens- und Wirtschaftsbereiche und erkennen die hohe Vernetzung verschiedener Methoden und Instrumente. Sie werden in die Lage versetzt, verschiedene Logistiksysteme und ihre Komponenten zu identifizieren, zu analysieren und hinsichtlich ihrer Einsatzmöglichkeiten zu bewerten. Sie können die Systembestandteile differenzieren und ansatzweise Stärken und Schwächen in Realsystemen erkennen.

Präsentationen, Fallstudien, Diskussionen

Präsentation, Fallstudienanalyse

The course focuses on collaboration, collaborative work and modern collaboration tools in a business environment. Students will apply their knowledge in a hands-on collaboration project with partners.

Topics:

• Understand the concepts of collaboration and collaborative work
• Learn how IT can be used in order to support collaboration
• Learn about the potentials and limits about collaboration technology
• Learn about investment decisions of organizations regarding collaboration technology
• Experience collaboration with team members from other countries

Collaborative Business is an evolving topic in the area of Information Systems. It supports flexible cooperation and enables new modes of value creation in loosely coupled networks. Furthermore, collaboration can be a source of process innovation and value creation throughout a company.

In this module students are introduced to concepts of inter- and intraorganizational collaboration and cooperation.

Besides theoretical concepts of communication and collaboration, the students are brought in touch with state-of-the-art collaboration technology. They are motivated to experience these tools in praxis and are guided through a collaboration experience.

Virtual teams are formed and perform collaboration tasks throughout the whole semester.

The module integrates theoretical knowledge and practical skills based on an interactive seminar that includes a hands-on collaboration project.

The e-learning platform Moodle will be used throughout the course for the dissemination of course material and discussions.

Die Studierenden...

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• More than half of the global population lives in cities and their meaning for architectural analysis is evident. Due to their importance for the global economy, also economists show a growing interest in cities. Against this background, this seminar aims at introducing students of architecture and economy into reflections on cities. Questions include: What is and what makes a city? What is urbanity and how is it performed?
• Based on two classic books; namely Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift's 'Cities-Reimagining the Urban' and William Cronon's 'Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West', this seminar focuses on relational and socio-material conceptions of cities, the urban and their counterparts; namely nature and 'the rural'. These reflections not only include spatial aspects and buildings, but also social, economic and political dimensions that frame and are being framed by cities.
• This relational perspective on the city as being produced 'everywhere' and in 'everything' - which is not easy to comprehend - often transgresses the established boundaries between nature and culture as well as between knowledge and space and hereby increasingly points to a novel understanding of cities and the urban as something multiple that emerges in relations and that is continuously assembled and re-assembled. Therefore, beside of lecture discussions, an important emphasis of this seminar lies in excursions to amplify the theoretical concepts and framings at specific sites of urban production in Vaduz and its surroundings.

• seminar and excursions

• This seminar not only conveys the students with competences in reflecting cities and the urban but it also enables them to understand the multiple relations that frame a specific urban situation.
• In particular, the profound understanding of the relational conceptualizations of cities and the urban requires complex thought efforts that contribute to a sharpening of the analytical, methodological and reflective competences of the students.
• A further aim is to support the students with skills for academic reading, writing and oral presentations.

Assessment tasks:
Part A: (50%) Reading responses: For each session, every student has to hand in a reading response of 1-2 pages that engages with the required reading(s) and the posed questions (upload on moodle).
Part B: (50%) Blog posts on excursions: Each student will be required to write a blog post on each excursion by briefly relating the insights from the excursion with the discussed literature and to present one of them to the class.
Compulsory attendance (min. 80%)

Passed / Failed

• Course based on continuous assessment, details see under "assessment".
• Meeting attendance obligations is an essential pre-requisite for successfully completing a course based on continuous assessment.
• Attendance must be proven for at least 80% of the stipulated contact time. Responsibility for checking and providing written proof of this obligatory attendance lies with the course lecturer who is required to store this information at least until the end of the semester.
• In the case of absenteeism that exceeds the specified limits of absence, a medical certificate is required. Responsibility lies with the head of the Coordination Office for Cross-Faculty Elective Subjects to approve the reason for the student's failure to attend.
• Participation in other activities of the university are not recognized as an excused absence.

Cross-faculty elective subject:
Notice the special Multi-stage allocation process.

The main aim of this course is to examine the issue of terrorism by addressing the following questions:

• What is a terrorist, and how should terrorism be defined?
• How can we distinguish nationalist, ideological and religious terrorism from each other?
• What do terrorists want?
• What is the policy of the United Nations toward terrorism?

Lectures, group work, self-study

The course is designed to help students gain insights into terrorism. It considers national, international, ideological and religious terrorism, definitions of terrorism, terrorist groups and their motivations, their violent tactics and policies. At the end of this course students should have a background and understanding of terrorism.

Assessment tasks:
50% 4 research papers of not more than 2 to 4 pages, dur?ng t?ll the end of the course

25% Seminar practice presentation

25% Class participation (which is more than just attendance)

Compulsory attendance (min. 80%)

Passed / Failed

• Course based on continuous assessment, details see under "assessment".
• Meeting attendance obligations is an essential pre-requisite for successfully completing a course based on continuous assessment.
• Attendance must be proven for at least 80% of the stipulated contact time. Responsibility for checking and providing written proof of this obligatory attendance lies with the course lecturer who is required to store this information at least until the end of the semester.
• In the case of absenteeism that exceeds the specified limits of absence, a medical certificate is required. Responsibility lies with the head of the Coordination Office for Cross-Faculty Elective Subjects to approve the reason for the student's failure to attend.
• Participation in other activities of the university are not recognized as an excused absence.

Cross-faculty elective subject:
Notice the special Multi-stage allocation process.

This module supports the development of basic communicative and cultural competence in Spanish.

Interaction, study skills

>understanding and passing on simple information
>taking part in simple everyday conversation
>reporting past events
>creating simple texts

Please bring the following book with you to the first meeting: eñe A1: Der Spanischkurs (Hueber Verlag).

80% compulsory attendance

This module supports the development of basic communicative and cultural competence in Spanish.

Interaction, study skills

>understanding and passing on simple information
>taking part in simple everyday conversation
>reporting past events
>creating simple texts

Please bring the following book with you to the first meeting: eñe A1: Der Spanischkurs (Hueber Verlag).

80% compulsory attendance

The course will deepen and enrich your enjoyment and understanding of art through engagement with some of the key theories and approaches that art historians have developed for interpreting and explaining works of art.

• Learn about Art Periods
• Get to know the highlights of European art from the 15th to the 21st century
• Explore fascinating questions about works of art, their function in society, their various meanings for viewers of the past and of the present
• Meet works of art within their social and cultural context
• Learn about methods used by art historians to analyse, interpret and explain works of art: Biographical approach, socio-economic/cultural approach, sociological approach, Iconographic approach, Iconological interpretation, architectural history, formalist/stylistic approach, aesthetic approach, semiotics, gendered approach
• A special focus is on social history of art since 1970

Lectures, group work, self-study; visiting museums in the surroundings of Liechtenstein

Participants …

• know some of the major European works of art
• are able to explain the basic concepts and theories of art
• know how to look at works of art and their original social, commercial and religious context
• understand some of the issues in treating works of art as visual evidence of human action, imagination and thought
• understand the different contexts in which works of art can be produced and consumed
• are able to place works of art in the historical context
• are able to read and analyse works of art
• know about art sales

Assessment tasks:
Part A: (10 %) Preparation of questions on assigned reading material
Part B: (40 %) Essay with presentation on one of the course topics
Part C: (50 %) Develop your personal art guide

Compulsory attendance (min. 80%)

Passed / Failed

• Course based on continuous assessment, details see under "assessment".
• Meeting attendance obligations is an essential pre-requisite for successfully completing a course based on continuous assessment.
• Attendance must be proven for at least 80% of the stipulated contact time. Responsibility for checking and providing written proof of this obligatory attendance lies with the course lecturer who is required to store this information at least until the end of the semester.
• In the case of absenteeism that exceeds the specified limits of absence, a medical certificate is required. Responsibility lies with the head of the Coordination Office for Cross-Faculty Elective Subjects to approve the reason for the student's failure to attend.
• Participation in other activities of the university are not recognized as an excused absence.

Cross-faculty elective subject:
Notice the special Multi-stage allocation process.

>Spoken and written communicative competence in various everyday situations
>Cultural competence

Interactive teaching

>Building German language competence
>Developing basic communicative competence
>Cultural competence
>Grammar and Vocabulary
>Learning strategies

The modules in "German as a Foreign language" deepen the competences acquired throughout the introduction week. They can also be chosen independently.