One of my passions is teaching and learning. Here are some of the courses that I have taught so far.
Leadership Development & Training
This course aims to provide master students with a solid foundation of the key principles of leadership development based on the state of science. Students reflect on insights from leadership research and explore different approaches to leadership development such as 360-degree feedback, coaching, mentoring, and learning from experience. We also hold debates on “hot” topics in the field. For example, is adventure-based/outdoor training effective? Does mindfulness training help leadership development? Is online coaching going to work?
Strategic Human Resource Management
This course enables master students - whether they are future employees, consultants, leaders, HR professionals, or researchers - to understand what the famous phrase “our people are our most valuable asset” really means. This is a highly interactive course which blends recorded knowledge clips with face-to-face discussion and active participation in small group activities. In class, students are guided through activities which focus on testing theory, and they apply evidence-based knowledge in their MSc company project.
Team Leadership
This course enables MBA students to develop the skills to be an effective team leader. The main aim is to provide students with evidence-based knowledge and tools to create a positive cognitive and emotional team culture and deal effectively with motivational problems, dysfunctional team members, conflicts and lack of a common direction can be applied into their work immediately.
Workshops in Organizational Behavior
This course aims to provide a basic-level but a comprehensive understanding of the main themes and concepts of the Organizational Behavior. The main audience was undergraduate students with non-management focus (e.g., marketing, finance).
Research Methods
This course enables students to acquire the skills and the toolset that are necessary to successfully design and execute their own research projects. The course content is arranged in the order of conducting a quantitative study, beginning with understanding research questions up to the analysis stage. General topics include the scientific process; developing and evaluating research questions and hypotheses; measurement (operationalization, validity, reliability); sampling; research design (experiments, quasi-experiments, non-experiments); evaluation; and generalizability (replication, meta-analyses).
Master Thesis Supervision
I have served as a master thesis supervisor for six students and co-reader for two students so far, which allowed me to start developing my supervising skills. Coaching master’s students through their thesis trajectories is very core to my heart/academic identity as I aim to be a scholar, and I believe it has started preparing me for the future coaching of Ph.D. students.
Student Testimonials
"I think Begum's greatest strengths were being very supportive yet still focused on the task at hand. It was the perfect combination of showing caring and helping me work through the thesis".
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"Begum was a very kind and understanding thesis supervisor. She was able to answer all of the questions that I had. Additionally, her feedback was constructive and easy to understand, which helped ease the thesis writing process".
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" - Very supportive towards the end of the trajectory
- Easy to contact and reachable
- Helps a lot by giving advice and research papers".
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"A structured teacher and capable to help in any circumstances".