MGT599 Leadership Theory and Practice (16)
CSU Discipline Area: Management (MANAG)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject will get students to look at how leadership is practiced using different metaphors to help them structure their thoughts. Students will be required to articulate their position on leadership and the role it can play in improving organisational performances and opportunities. Students will need to use the differences between the constructs of leadership and management to help them think through how they can be more effective in guiding an organisation's future.
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| Distance | Bathurst |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: MGT599
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Enrolment restrictions:
Postgraduate students only.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to demonstrate an understanding of organisational leadership theories as heuristic devices to help them think about leadership in practice.
- be able to appreciate how the differing disciplinary perspectives on leadership enrich the thinking process.
- be able to understand the nature of 'lived in' leadership in business and other organisational settings.
- be able to recognise how the construct 'management' compared to 'leadership' can help them clarify their thinking on guiding an organisation's future.
- be able to appreciate the role of leadership in organisational change.
- be able to recognise and understand how to develop leadership opportunities.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- How to reflect on leadership experienced/being experienced - Reflecting on the claimed nature and importance of leadership - An overview of differing approaches to understanding and analyzing leadership - Using claimed characteristics and qualities of leadership to help think about experience - The reality of ethics and leadership in practice - Matching leadership to an organisation, accounting for type of organisation (e.g. public and private sector), culture and norms as well as leadership across nations - Challenging the notions of leader, leadership and what happens in their absence - Skills that assist leadership - Leadership and organisational change - Emerging directions in leadership - Development of leadership in the student
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.