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DBL701 Business Leadership: Theory and Practice (16)
AbstractThis subject aims to enhance the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of corporate leadership and its corporate and societal value by analysing the convergent and divergent paradigms of leadership informed by both the perspectives from behavioural disciplines and the practices of leadership in evolving and uncertain future environments of large and frequently transnational business. Participants will be expected to build on their leadership experiences from examination of the breadth of leadership theories and the outcomes of these in informing and adapting practice. |
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Subject informationDuration | Grading System | School: |
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One session. | HD/FL | School of Management and Marketing |
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Enrolment restrictions
Doctor of Business Leadership Candidates only |
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Learning OutcomesUpon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- Understand, assess and critically evaluate paradigms of leadership in the context of contemporary and evolving corporate organisational structures; - Demonstrate enhanced high level decision making skills to examine convergent and divergent approaches to leading in evolutionary environments; - Develop appropriate and creative solutions to leadership challenges in large organisations; - Appreciate the relationship of corporate level leadership and the organisation and its contribution to the societies in which the corporation is immersed; and - Appreciate and value the need for leadership sensitivity to national and transnational differences in political, economic, cultural and societal characteristics of areas of corporate activity. |
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SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics: - Corporate leadership and leadership theories: historical and futuristic perspectives
- Leadership: convergent and divergent approaches to analysis
- Leadership and anti-leadership paradigms
- Integrated approaches
- Leadership and the emergence of large organisations
- Globalisation, corporatisation and the emergence of the new corporate 'emperors'
- Leadership in evolutionary environments
- Implications for society of corporate leadership |
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The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 01 October 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.