Module
Leadership and Global Challenges
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 theoretical underpinnings of leadership, as well as some practical aspects of ‘doing leadership’. 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.
Full module specification
| Module title: | Leadership and Global Challenges |
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| Module code: | BEMM071 |
| Module level: | M |
| Academic year: | 2023/4 |
| Module lecturers: |
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| Module credit: | 15 |
| ECTS value: | 7.5 |
| Pre-requisites: | None |
| Co-requisites: | None |
| Duration of module: |
Duration (weeks) - term 2: 11 |
Module aims
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.
ILO: Module-specific skills
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 25 | Lectures |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 5 | Tutorials |
| Guided Independent Study | 120 | Reading, research, reflection; Preparation for lectures, tutorials and assessments |
Formative assessment
| Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Formative essay plan (Group feedback and peer assessment on essay plan) | N/A | 1-10 | Written and group discussion |
Summative assessment (% of credit)
| Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | 0 | 0 |
Details of summative assessment
| Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Written Assignment | 100 | 2,000 words | 1-10 | Individual written comments and grade |
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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 (100%) | Re-Write assignment, 2,000 words (100%) | 1-10 | July/August |
Syllabus plan
This plan is indicative but may vary according to availability of external lecturers and speakers
- Introduction: What is leadership?
- New models of Leadership
- Cross-cultural perspectives on leadership
- Darkside & destructive leadership
- Individual Difference in Self-Leadership
- Leading Difference
- Mindful Leadership
- Leadership and Change
- Leadership development
- Third sector leadership
- Leadership and Board Governance
Indicative learning resources - Basic reading
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Ancona, D, Malone, T, Orlikowski, W and Senge P (2007) In Praise of the Incomplete Leader, Harvard Business Review, Feb: 92-101.
- Antonakis, J. and Day, D.V. (Eds.) (2018) The nature of leadership (3rd edition), Sage, California
- Badaracco, J. L. (2001) 'We don't need another hero', Harvard Business Review, September, pp. 120-126.
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Haslam, S.A. & Reicher, S. D. (2010) The new psychology of leadership: Identity, influence and power, Psychology Press, Sussex, UK.
- Northouse, P. G. (2019) Leadership: Theory and Practice (8th edition), Sage, London. (Sixth and seventh editions are also. useful)
Useful Journals:
- Leadership Quarterly
- Academy of Management Learning & Education
- Research in Organization Behaviour
- Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
- Harvard Business Review
Module has an active ELE page?
Yes
Indicative learning resources - Web based and electronic resources
Course readings and notes to be posted on ELE
Origin date
01/09/2010
Last revision date
22/09/2020