BA Management, Leadership and Leisure / Course details

Year of entry: 2022

Course unit details:
Leadership 2

Course unit fact file
Unit code EDUC30201
Credit rating 10
Unit level Level 6
Teaching period(s) Semester 1
Offered by Education
Available as a free choice unit? Yes

Overview

 

The course unit will introduce and discuss the following content areas:

  • Discourses of leadership
  • Leadership development
  • Distributed leadership models
  • “Leaderless” leadership, consensus models and co-operatives
  • The future of leadership: networks in a globalised world.

Aims

 

  • Extend understanding of leadership theories and practices developed in EDUC20281 by critically assessing the role of leadership in diverse organisational contexts and functions.
  • Examine multiple discourses of leadership to contextualise contemporary trends.
  • Explore modes of leadership formation.

Learning outcomes


  

Knowledge and understanding
  • Understand a range of different leadership discourses, including controller, therapist, and messiah.
  • Be able to apply these to understandings and cases from the wider field of leadership.
  • Develop an understanding of the ways in which leadership may be operationalised in organisations, including more distributed and leaderless structures.
  • Be able to critique some of these forms by subjecting claims to rigorous analysis.
  • Show awareness of ways in which leadership may be developed and nurtured.
  • Apply understanding of leadership in a globalised world to predict and explain possible future forms.

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.

 

Teaching and learning methods

Length and Teaching arrangements: up to12 x 2 hour lectures/seminars supported by individual or group tutorials

Transferable skills and personal qualities


 

Assessment methods

Unseen, written examination paper: 2.5 hours (100%)

Feedback methods

Feedback will be given in class and on blackboard

Recommended reading

 

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

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

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).

Western, S., (2013). Leadership: A critical text. London: Sage.

 

Key academic journals

Human Relations. hum.sagepub.com

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies. http://jlo.sagepub.com/

Leadership. lea.sagepub.com

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

Organization. org.sagepub.com

Study hours

Scheduled activity hours
Lectures 24
Independent study hours
Independent study 76

Teaching staff

Staff member Role
Belinda Hughes Unit coordinator

Additional notes

Activity Hours Allocated
Staff/Student Contact 24 hours
On-line Tutorials To be negotiated between student and tutor
Private Study To be negotiated between student and tutor
Directed Reading To be negotiated between student and tutor
Assessment  Preparation To be negotiated between student and tutor
Total Hours 200

 

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