Program Overview

Program Overview

The Master's program in Management, Ethics and Innovation in the Non-Profit Sector – Diaconal Leadership and Governance is designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge required for executive positions in social enterprises and non-profit organizations. The program focuses on the development of complex social, diaconal, and ecclesiastical organizations and shaping the community in non-profit organizations.

Facts & Formalities

• Degree: Master of Arts
• Type of programme: Continuing
• Start of programme: Winter semester only
• Standard period of study: 5 semesters
• Language(s) of instruction: German
• Fees and contributions: 1,860.00 € / Semester
• Application procedure: Continuing-education master’s programmes and Law - Legum Magister
• Application deadlines: Information about deadlines can be obtained after you have put together a degree program.
• Special characteristic: Since winter semester 2014/2015 the programme starts in a two-year cycle only in the winter semester.

Course Content

The academic programme conveys core topics associated with achievement behaviour in non-profit organisations. These include:

• The religious and ethical foundations of helping that are reflected upon from a Christian perspective and an openness toward other worldviews
• Fundamentals of non-profit management
• Provision of help in the subsidiary and welfare-oriented areas of the welfare state’s assistance system
• A special characteristic is the focus on development of social services through innovation.

Students can select their areas of specialisation according to their interests from the following compulsory elective modules:

• Scientific innovation and project-based research
• Management of organisations in social contexts
• Systematic organisation development / diversity management

Course Structure

The academic programme is divided into:

• Stage 1 studies
• Two areas of specialisation
• An advanced semester

Stage 1 Studies

• Spirituality and religiousness as the foundation of social commitment
• Transformation processes in the non-profit sector
• Foundation of non-profit management
• Interdisciplinary study and research competencies

Compulsory Elective Focus

• Organisational management in social contexts
  • Basics of stakeholder management
  • External stakeholder management
  • Internal stakeholder management
  • Stakeholder management practice
• Social innovation and project-related research
  • Research and innovation
  • Social work and social change
  • Innovation and strategic management
  • Structuring and governance of organisations
• Systemic organisation development / diversity management
  • Basics of systemic organisation development and diversity management
  • Change management
  • Change management in practice

Advanced Semester

• Leadership and leadership personalities
  • Innovation and social transformation
  • Leadership and governance
  • Basics of management law

Master's Thesis

The master's thesis is a required component of the program.