Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

LJMU Partner Taught

Learning Methods

Online

Module Offerings

7511UNIMBA-JAN-PAR

Aims

To equip students with the conceptual frameworks, learning, skills and confidence to perform successfully as business scholarly practitioners at master’s level. Effective leadership is a key contributor to organisational success. It therefore behoves those in leadership positions to fully consider theories and ideas of leadership as well as their own leadership motivations and behaviours.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Scholarly Business Practice • Power and authority in organisations and the significance of context. • Critical analysis of organisational influences. Reading academic journal articles deliberately and critically, in business contexts. • Writing a critical annotated reference. • Models of professional learning including reflective practise, informed reflective practice, the scholarly practitioner. • The significance of formal organisational structures and cultures on leadership practice. Critical overview of student's organisational structure and culture. Identify tensions between formal and informal structures and cultures. • Power and influence in business organisations. • Is there a place for bureaucracy? The learner as a professionalised bureaucrat and significance to leadership practice. • Writing a critical response to an academic journal article. Leadership, Engagement and Development • Self-concept and the links between identity and leadership behaviour (this may also include values and beliefs leading to professional codes of practice). • Personality and individual differences, Emotional Intelligence and Resilience • Overview of Leadership Theories (including areas such as Ethical Leadership, Adaptive Leadership, Leadership Styles, Transformational Leadership, Responsible Leadership, Value based Leadership, Sustainable Leadership etc.) • Self-assessment tools to develop personal insights • Building engagement and developing high performance teams (Engagement and motivation theories) • Leader influence and power in managing people • Building constructive working relationships across teams including understanding, equality and inclusion. • Managing performance, goal setting and team accountability • An introduction to coaching and action learning • Reflective practice and critical reflection • Future-proofing and professional development planning
Additional Information:Part of the MBA programme

Assessments

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