Module BUSI4S115: Strategic Leadership

Department: Management and Marketing

BUSI4S115: Strategic Leadership

Tied To

• G5K823: Data Science
• G5P123: Data Science (Earth and Environment)
• G5P223: Data Science (Bioinformatics and Biological Modelling)
• G5P323: Data Science (Health)
• G5P423: Data Science (Social Analytics)
• G5P523: Data Science (Heritage)
• G5P923: (programme not found)

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

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.