Strategy, Organization & Leadership

Our mission

Nyenrode's Department of Strategy, Organization & Leadership provides (future) leaders and managers of companies with strategic and organizational knowledge and skills. This makes them of added value to their organization.

We do this in close collaboration with the business and academic world and are constantly optimizing our teaching and research. This keeps us at the forefront of business and management practice. Our students gain strategic and organizational insight and can use their leadership qualities to set up and implement optimal business architectures and strategies. 

Our activities

The Department of Strategy, Organization and Leadership contributes to a large number of Bachelors, Masters, Post-Masters, MBAs, Executive programs and Doctoral programs at Nyenrode Business Universiteit.

Our education is provided from four clusters:

• Strategic Management and Transformation
• Organization and Humar Resource Management
• Leadership and Leadership development
• Methods for Research

Modules and courses that are provided from the center:

• Academic Writing Skills
• Business English
• Communication Skills
• Digital Business and Society
• Digital Transformation
• HR Strategy and the Future of Work
• Innovation and Creativity
• Leadership and Leadership Development
• Employee participation
• Organizational Behavior and Dynamics
• Research Methodologies in Behavioral Sciences
• Strategic Human Resource Management
• Strategy, Policy and Organization in the Public Sector
• Strategic Alignment
• Strategic Management
• Talent Economics, Investment & Management
• Change Management
• Work Values
• Workplace Learning

Our research

The Department focuses on the following research areas:

• Ambidexterity and Dynamic Capabilities
• Appreciative Inquiry
• Digital Strategy and Transformation
• Dual Leadership
• Engagement and Productivity
• Human Resource Management
• Innovation and Creativity
• Knowledge Based Network organizations
• Knowledge Management
• Labor Relations and Talent Management
• Leadership and Cooperation
• New Ways of Working
• Organization Behavior and Psychology
• Organization Design
• Strategic Talent Management
• Stress Management
• The Adaptive Organization
• Work-family Interference

Our partners

• North West University, South Africa
• Open Universiteit, Netherlands
• Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands
• Universiteit van Tilburg, Netherlands
• Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
• Fordham University, United States