Module BUSI3161: Global Leadership

Department: Management and Marketing

BUSI3161: Global Leadership

Prerequisites

• None

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• The module aims to develop students' knowledge and understanding of key issues relating to the global processes and practices of leadership
• The module will provide students with the opportunity to critically understand research in the field of global leadership and conduct a small scale research project of their own on a leadership challenge they are interested in.
• The module will facilitate students' critical awareness of contemporary global issues and debates relating to leadership.

Content

• Contemporary and global theories of leadership
• Researching leadership challenges.
• Leadership and organisational change and innovation
• Leadership and power and influence
• Leadership and culture
• Leadership and ethics
• Leadership and identity
• Leadership and gender
• Leadership and sustainability
• Leadership and global business
• Destructive leadership

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate a deep and critical understanding of the leadership literature
• Demonstrate familiarity with a range of approaches to global leadership in practice and the outcomes of leadership
• Demonstrate a sound understanding of critical perspectives on global leadership and leadership discourse.

• Be able to locate, comprehend and critically evaluate relevant research and sources of information and evidence relating to global leadership
• Be able to apply leadership theory to practice
• Be able to critically engage with current debates about leadership theory and practice.

• Effective written communication
• Research appropriate periodicals, websites, books, other references to draw together required information
• Critical thinking, analysis, evaluation and synthesis
• The development of cohesive and persuasive arguments.

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

• Teaching is by lectures and seminars.
• Learning takes place through attendance at lectures, preparation for and participation in seminars, and directed independent study
• Seminar classes provide a structured series of global case studies and group exercises to support, reinforce knowledge and encourage independent study.
• The seminars aim at equipping students with the necessary skills and understanding that will help them conduct the enquiry-based project of their summative assessment.
• Additional learning support will be provided online via the virtual learning environment and external links to current leadership-related debates.
• Formative assessment is by individual contribution to a group presentation.
• Summative assessment is by means of an enquiry-based project which will involve the critical analysis and application of specific leadership theories to a research interview conducted by the student.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

A contribution to a group presentation.

■ Students who do not attend monitored activities shown under Teaching Methods and Learning Hours, or who fail to complete the summative or formative assessment(s) specified above, may be subject to the Academic Progress procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University.