2017/18 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue
LUBS5757M Leading in Practice
15 creditsClass Size: 40
Module manager: James Roberts
Email: J.P.Roberts@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2017/18
Module replaces
LUBS 5756MThis module is not approved as an Elective
Module summary
In addition to considerations of academic perspectives on leadership, the module addresses issues around developing commercial awareness, the practice of organisational intervention and how leaders need to develop their capabilities through self-reflection and managed self-development. The module draws on the input of academics, practising leaders and coaches to address these areas and will incorporate the Consulting Challenge. By this point in the programme your leadership and management knowledge should be close to the point whereby you can confidently provide consultancy support to a business in need. Typically this will be a local small to medium sized business, social enterprise or voluntary sector organisation – an organisation that may not have the funds or managerial resources to address all of the challenges it faces. During the module you engage with the client, work on a significant problem or issue affecting the organisation, make a positive intervention, and take appropriate action to either remedy the situation or make recommendations for further action. Your work with the client culminates in a report and presentation to them. You also address issues around ethical and responsible leadership, individually working on a case provided, and making a recorded presentation for assessment.Objectives
The aim of this module is to give students the knowledge and skills to address the challenges of becoming an effective, self-directed leader in today’s complex and dynamic organisations. The module focuses on the critical issues facing modern leaders including developing commercial awareness, the practice of organisational intervention and how leaders need to develop their capabilities through self-reflection and managed self-development.Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
- Critically evaluate theories and perspectives on leadership and assess their implications for leading in practice including issues of ethical and responsible leadership
- Manage an organisational client’s readiness for change to successfully effect a positive change or to make feasible recommendations for further action
- Plan and implement practical organisational interventions to resolve problems or issues using appropriate methodologies and knowledge, demonstrating strong commercial awareness
- Draft appropriate self-improvement strategies for their future career and development of leadership skills
Skills outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
Transferable
- Employ understanding and sensitivity to actions and communication when working in groups, particularly multi-cultural, mixed gender teams
Subject Specific
- Deploy diagnostic organisational intervention skills
Syllabus
Indicative content
Academic theories of leadership
The practice of leadership
The ethics of leadership
Organisational interventions, stages and styles.
Planning and delivering an organisational intervention
Working in intervention teams
Self-diagnosis and skill development - how to deal with the employment market - how to create a strategy for ongoing self-development
Teaching methods
Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
Mentor input | 3 | 1.00 | 3.00 |
Fieldwork | 0 | 0.00 | 20.00 |
Group learning | 0 | 0.00 | 30.00 |
Lecture | 11 | 1.00 | 11.00 |
Practical | 11 | 2.00 | 22.00 |
Seminar | 11 | 1.00 | 11.00 |
Independent online learning hours | 20.00 | ||
Private study hours | 66.00 | ||
Total Contact hours | 97.00 | ||
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 183.00 |
Private study
Participants will be expected to engage with a corporate client, hence 20 hours of expected fieldwork. The group project will entail an evaluation of the effectiveness of the group task and also group process, hence 30 hours of group interaction. Additional private study hours will involve reading, reflection and preparation for interim reports to the tutor and the rest of the seminar group. There will also be a requirement to maintain and continuously update an individual online learning journal, which will be monitored and commented upon by the tutor.Opportunities for Formative Feedback
Interim verbal group presentations and reports to the tutor and the entire seminar group. Coaching and supervision of group interventions in the host organisations. Continuous monitoring of individual online journal.Methods of assessment
Coursework
Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
Group Project | Cosulting Challenge: 5000 word group report | 40.00 |
Oral Presentation | 15 minute group presentation (Consulting Challenge)plus 30 minutes Q&A to individuals | 30.00 |
Oral Presentation | Individual (case study based) 15 minutes | 30.00 |
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 |
The resit for this module will be 100% by coursework.
Reading list
The reading list is available from the Library websiteLast updated: 24/01/2018
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