Leadership - ZBUS8201
Faculty: UNSW Canberra at ADFA
School: School of Business @ UNSW Canberra at ADFA
Course Outline: https://gateway.unsw.adfa.edu.au/isas/current_students/outlines/index.html
Campus: UNSW Canberra at ADFA
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Restricted to students enrolled in Graduate Diploma or Masters programs.
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Learning Outcomes
1. Interpret contemporary leadership research and theory.
2. Interpret the multifaceted nature of leadership in Australia and internationally.
3. Analyse the principles and practices of leadership and management within an organisational setting, and be able to relate these to your own experiences.
4. Share your understanding of leadership with colleagues in an informed and constructive manner.
5. Appreciate the ethical challenges of leadership.
Delivery Mode
Topics
- Defining Leadership, Leadership and Management
- Nature v nurture, evolutionary ideas, traits
- Styles and contingency approaches (SLT and Path Goal)
- Leader follower relation approaches and follower centric perspectives
- Charismatic Leadership and heroic leadership
- Transformational Leadership
- Ethical leadership
- Bad leadership
- Emotional Intelligence and Authentic Leadership
- Leadership and Gender
- Leadership and Culture and the Warrior ethos
- Leadership and Strategy, and shaping identity
- Crisis leadership
Assessment
Mid-term Essay 30%
Enactment Report 40%
Course Texts
Nahavandi (2013), Leadership (1st Ed). Pearson (ISBN 9781486009220)
Recommended Texts:
P.G. Northouse (2013) Leadership: Theory and Practice 6 ed. London: Sage.
Software:
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