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2017/18 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS5835M Leading Change

30 creditsClass Size: 44

Module manager: Dr Vince Dispenza
Email: V.Dispenza@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: 1 Oct to 30 Sep (24mth), Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

Module replaces

LUBS 5833M Executive SkillsLUBS 5823M Managing Change

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module is core for the Executive MBA. The module begins during your induction and runs throughout the programme to fully develop your skills in this key area of leadership and management of change. The module is designed to extend your ability to manage issues arising from organisational change, in particular the management of human resources in the context of change. You will develop investigative and diagnostic skills to improve your awareness of how people can facilitate or resist change .There will also be extensive opportunities to apply these ideas in practice and to develop 'soft skills' such as information gathering, listening, negotiating, managing relationships and verbal and written presentation. Embedded within the module are three assessed group activities to enable you to hone leadership and team working skills: The New Venture Challenge, the Boardroom Challenge and the Consultancy Challenge. Each activity is assessed by both a written report and a group presentation.

Objectives

This module aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills to enable them to critically evaluate key issues involved in change situations in organisations; apply theoretical understanding of leadership and change to group activities; lead and manage change in an effective and ethical manner; and apply creativity and innovation in management practice.

Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
- Apply investigative and diagnostic skills to a series of live challenges
- Critically apply their understanding of theoretical constructs to a series of live challenges
- Identify and evaluate productive and unproductive behaviours in team working
- Interpret and use quantitative data to inform change decisions

Skills outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
Transferable
-Lead and manage effective change
- Work constructively within a team
- Reflect on their behaviour and the behaviour of others

Subject specific
- Manage sensitively and effectively the issues arising from organisational change, in particular the management of others in the context of live projects
- Deploy investigative and diagnostic skills to improve awareness of how people can lead and facilitate change


Syllabus

Indicative content
Leadership and change in organisations
Team working and group dynamics
Decision making in groups
A New Venture Challenge activity
A Boardroom Challenge activity
A Consulting Challenge activity
Reflective Practice and reflexivity

Teaching methods

Delivery typeNumberLength hoursStudent hours
Group learning320.0060.00
Seminar12.002.00
Seminar13.003.00
Seminar64.0024.00
Tutorial63.0018.00
Independent online learning hours20.00
Private study hours173.00
Total Contact hours107.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)300.00

Private study

The module runs right across the programme and combines taught sessions, groupwork, assessments and independent learning.

Students will be placed in challenging group learning environments and will need private time to undertake additional research both of the academic subject matter relating to leadership and change and for each of the three group activities which will require individuals to undertake research and report back to the group.

Professor John Hayes has developed a set of online Articulate materials covering Leading & Managing Change which students will use for self-study. A key element of the module is the development of the "Reflective Practitioner" and associated assessed report. Students will be encouraged to reflect in their private time on their development as a leader.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

- All group work is facilitated by members of staff who will monitor both group and individual student progress.
- The Articulate online learning materials contain self-test exercises that students will be encouraged to complete.
- The sequential nature of the three group challenges enables extensive feedback to be provided at the end of each challenge that can be used by students' to improve their performance in subsequent activities.

Methods of assessment


Coursework
Assessment typeNotes% of formal assessment
Group Project5,000 words (NVC)5.00
Group Project5,000 words (BRC)5.00
Group Project5,000 words (CC)10.00
PresentationGroup (NVC)10.00
PresentationGroup (BRC)10.00
PresentationGroup (CC)15.00
PortfolioReflective Essay & Portfolio 2,000 words15.00
Essay3,000 words Leading & Managing Change30.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)100.00

The 3 hour exam is the resit is for the module – students failing the module will be offered the opportunity to resit by examination for the module credit with a maximum mark of 50 being awarded. There will normally only be one, single opportunity to resit the module. Students failing the module will not normally be able to carry forward to the resit project marks from the first sit; the resit will be wholly based on the mark obtained in the resit examination.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 15/04/2015

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