Leadership and Global Challenges

Module title	Leadership and Global Challenges
Module code	BEMM071
Academic year	2019/0
Credits	15
Module staff	Dr Ruth Sealy (Convenor)

Duration: Term	1	2	3
Duration: Weeks		11

Number students taking module (anticipated)	40

Module description

Summary:

This module will provide students with an opportunity to consider the nature and role of leadership in what we do and explore key challenges facing leaders in contemporary organisations. There will be a focus on the practical aspects of ‘doing leadership’ as a response to and in tackling such challenges. The international focus will be supported by drawing on the diverse experiences of the student cohort and current leadership challenges from around the world.

Additional Information:

Internationalisation

In this module, students will gain an international perspective on leadership by considering practices in different parts of the world, including sharing their own diverse experiences.

Sustainability

Most of the resources are available on the ELE (Exeter Learning Environment).

Employability

This module helps students develop their critical thinking, their skills in research and arguing a case, articulating their position, and broadens their understanding of leadership. They also develop their skills in leading and influencing.

Module aims - intentions of the module

The aim of this module is to develop students’ understanding of the concept of leadership and explore implications of this in terms of leaders, followers and the doing of leadership. This will be considered in terms of the social process and relationships between leaders and followers which lie at the heart of leadership, and also through the lens of ‘global challenges’. While there is no single-best way to lead or do leadership, this module aims to ‘sensitize’ students to some of the critical issues associated with contemporary leadership in organizations.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

ILO: Module-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

1. critically engage with debates on a range of cutting-edge issues affecting global leadership practice
2. draw on the academic literature to support their thinking on these issues
3. compare and contrast the rhetoric and reality of leadership practice
4. critically reflect on the implications of these issues for how leadership is 'done' in their own culture and in others

ILO: Discipline-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

5. relate these debates to other issues affecting international management
6. reflect on their own cultural heritage as a way of understanding leadership and management
7. develop a broadened understanding as to how leadership is implicated in the world around them

ILO: Personal and key skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

8. develop communication and debating skills in written work
9. apply a range of theoretical perspectives to areas of topical debate
10. critically reflect on their own leadership experience and practice

Syllabus plan

Introduction: What is leadership?
New models of Leadership
Eastern and Western Perspectives on Leadership
Destructive Leadership and Leadership Derailment
Individual Difference in Self-Leadership
Leading Difference
Mindful Leadership
Leadership and Change
Leadership and Identity
Political Leadership
Leadership and Board Governance

Learning activities and teaching methods (given in hours of study time)

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
30	120	0

Details of learning activities and teaching methods

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Contact hours	25	Lectures
Contact hours	5	Tutorials

Formative assessment

Form of assessment	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Feedback on group discussions and exercised	N/A	1-11	Oral, in class

Summative assessment (% of credit)

Coursework	Written exams	Practical exams
50	50	0

Details of summative assessment

Form of assessment	% of credit	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Written Assignment	50	1,500 words	1-11	Individual written comments and grade
Written Examination	50	2 hours	1-11	Individual written comments and grade

Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)

Original form of assessment	Form of re-assessment	ILOs re-assessed	Timescale for re-assessment
Written Assignment	Re-write assignment	1-11	July
Written examination	Re-sit examination	1-11	August Examination Period

Indicative learning resources - Basic reading

Ancona, D, Malone, T, Orlikowski, W and Senge P (2007) In Praise of the Incomplete Leader, Harvard Business Review, Feb: 92-101.

Arnold, J., Randall, R., Silvester, J., Patterson, F., Robertson, I., Cooper, C. & Burnes (2010). Work Psychology: Understanding Human Behaviour in the Workplace

(5th Ed). Pearson Education.(Earlier editions are also useful)

Badaracco, J. L. (2001) 'We don't need another hero', Harvard Business Review, September, pp. 120-126.

Gosling, J. & Mintzberg, H. (2003) The five minds of a manager, Harvard Business Review, 81(11), 54-63.

Haslam, S.A. & Reicher, S. D. (2010) The new psychology of leadership: Identity, influence and power, Psychology Press, Sussex, UK.

Northouse, P. G. (2015) Leadership: Theory and Practice (7th edition), Sage, London. (Fifth and sixth editions are also. useful)

Uhl-Bien, M. (2006) 'Relational leadership theory: exploring the social processes of leadership and organizing', The Leadership Quarterly, 17, pp. 654-676.

Useful Journals:

Leadership Quarterly
Academy of Management Learning & Education
Research in Organization Behaviour
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Harvard Business Review

Indicative learning resources - Web based and electronic resources

Course readings and notes to be posted on ELE

Key words search

Leadership

Credit value	15
Module ECTS	7.5
Module pre-requisites	None
Module co-requisites	None
NQF level (module)	7
Available as distance learning?	No
Origin date	01/09/2010
Last revision date	12/01/2017