Module BUSI4S115: Strategic Leadership

Department: Management and Marketing

BUSI4S115: Strategic Leadership

Prerequisites

• None

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• To develop the required skills for understanding organisations, their structure and culture.
• To review the leadership skills required to manage organisations.
• To demonstrate a critical appreciation of emergent issues and challenges faced in fostering ethical leadership practices

Content

• Understanding organisations
• Organisational design and culture
• Fundamental of leadership
• Leading change
• Strategy and leadership
• Leadership competencies assessment/Developing leadership skills
• Leading across cultures
• Cross-cultural dimensions of leadership characteristics
• Self reflection

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the module students will have a knowledge and understanding leadership concepts in the following areas:
• Understanding Understanding and critical reflection of one’s leadership skills and competeneces.
• Analysing the main strategic competences of organisations.
• Ability to reflect on one’s own leadership qualities and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to understand, criticize, and apply leadership from a systematic information processing, affective, social exchange and dynamic systems perspectives.
• Ability to understand how to project an image as a confident, powerful individual.
• Demonstrate familiarity with a range of approaches to leadership in practice and the outcomes of leadership within a multi-cultural environment.

• Written communication.
• Understanding social perception and social communication processes involving explicit and implicit processes.
• Understanding how social processes are embedded in context and the role of leadership/followership in managing contextual linkages.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• This module will be delivered by the Management and Marketing department of the Business School.
• Lectures demonstrate what is required to be learned and the application of the theory to practical and relevant examples.
• Seminars will be linked with case studies and provide detail exercises to demonstrate the implications of the theoretical frameworks.
• Coursework will assess students' ability to implement theoretical concepts covered in the module.
• The resit opportunity for the group presentation will be an individual assignment of 1000 words, based on a case study analysis.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Formative assessment is via a proposal of 1000 words, focusing on the approach and context to be adopted for the subsequent summative assignment.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University