BUSI49I30: Leadership in Organisations

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• To develop students knowledge and critical understanding of key issues regarding leadership in terms of behaviour, affect and cognition with a specific focus on methodological issues. Leadership will be considered in the broad sense, to include, for example, adjacent areas such as power, influence, and employee/follower performance and attitudes.

• Classic leadership theories and why we have moved on
• Power and influence
• Self- and social awareness regarding leaders and leadership
• Modern leadership approaches
• Typical methods in the research on leadership
• Ethical challenges in leadership

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• Have an advanced understanding of the limitations of many classic leadership approaches;
• Have a comprehensive understanding of key issues, such as power and influence, employee attitudes, motivation and performance, with which leadership is connected;
• Understand where leadership is placed within the general management picture;
• Understand ones own biases in leader perceptions
• Understand that leadership cannot be understood without taking the followers and the environment into account
• Understand the difference between good and poor research in leadership;
• Understand the problems and issues in researching leadership in organisations.
• Have an advanced understanding of ethical challenges in leadership, and the appropriate responses.

Subject-specific Skills:

• Ability to skillfully conduct leadership research;
• Ability to critically assess existing leadership research with respect to the methods applied
• Ability to connect leadership with antecedents, correlates and outcomes that are key to organisations, such as development, motivation, performance and employee attitudes;
• Ability to understand and apply different methodological approaches to leadership research.

Key Skills:

• Ability to make an initial formulation and articulation of a potential scheme of research
• Ability to understand and resolve the problems and issues in undertaking doctoral research
• Ability to formulate, articulate and complete a scheme of research at doctoral level
• Enhanced personal effectiveness
• Effective written communication
• Advanced skills of self-awareness and time management

• The module will be delivered in a workshop format over an intensive three-day teaching block. Workshops will comprise a balanced mix of lecture- and seminar-type delivery combined with small group discussions and other activities as appropriate to the nature of the material. Learning will also occur through tutor-supported, as well as self-support learning groups. There will also be on-line teaching support through a module blog. Finally, guided reading will address key topics. This range of methods will ensure that students will acquire the advanced skills and knowledge to enable them to develop a thorough understanding of this specialist field of study.
• The assessment of the module, by essay, is designed to test students' knowledge and understanding of the subject-matter and their ability to articulate a researchable issue.

Individual-based presentations and tutor feedback within workshops. Individual 750 word assignment. The formative assessment is a smaller version of the summative assessment and serves to provide the students with feedback prior to submitting their summative assessment.

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