BA Management, Leadership and Leisure / Course details

Knowledge and understanding

• Understand a range of different perspectives on leadership, including sociological, psychological, functional and critical.
• Be able to locate these perspectives in the wider field of leadership study.
• Develop an understanding of the role and functions of leadership in contemporary western-style democracies.
• Know and be able to compare the features of a range of theoretical models of leadership.
• Awareness of constructed and historically situated nature of constructions of leadership

Intellectual skills

• Information-handling skills (literature search, web sourcing, etc.).
• Application of leadership theories to organisational processes, outcomes, culture and structures; and to human relations.
• Analytical and critical skills.

Practical skills

Digital literacy and on-line collaboration.

Transferable skills and personal qualities

• Communication skills.
• Critical thinking skills.

Assessment task

Word Length or Equivalent

Weighting within unit

Market Research Report

2500 words plus appendices

(100%)

Bass B and Steidlmeier P, 1999. Ethics, character, and authentic transformational leadership behavior. Leadership Quarterly 10(2): 181–217.

Chin, J., 2010. Introduction to the special issue on diversity and leadership. The American Psychologist, 65(3), 150-156.

Cluley R (2008) The psychoanalytic relationship between leaders and followers. Leadership 4(2): 201–212.

Conger, J., 1999. Charismatic and Transformational Leadership in Organizations: An Insider’s Perspective on these Developing Streams of Research. Leadership Quarterly, 10(2), 145–179.

Eagly, A., and Chin, J., Diversity and leadership in a changing world. The American Psychologist. 65(3), 216–224.

Ford, J., and Harding, N., 2011.The impossibility of the 'true self' of authentic leadership. Leadership, 7: 463–479.

Ford J (2006) Discourses of leadership: gender, identity and contradiction in a UK public sector organization. Leadership 2(1): 77–99.

Ford J (2010) Studying leadership critically: a psychosocial lens on leadership identities. Leadership 6(1): 1–19.

Gronn, P., 2002. Distributed leadership as a unit of analysis. The Leadership Quarterly. 13(4), 423–451.

Jermier, J., 1993. Introduction – charismatic leadership: Neo-Weberian perspectives. 4(3/4): 217–233.

Spillane, J. P., 2006. Distributed leadership (Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Weber, M., 2012 (1947). The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. Connecticut: Martino Publishing. (Read Section III: The types of authority and imperative co-ordination, pp. 324-407).

Yukl, G., 1999. An evaluation of conceptual weaknesses in transformational and charismatic leadership theories. Leadership Quarterly, 10(2), 285–305.

Key academic journals

Human Relations. hum.sagepub.com

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies. sagepub.com/journals/Journal201858?siteId=sage-us&prodTypes=Journals&q=leadership&fs=1

Leadership. lea.sagepub.com

Leadership Quarterly. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-leadership-quarterly/

Organization. org.sagepub.com