BUSN9236 Leadership: Theory, Practice and Experience

2012

4.5

1 x 3.5-hour workshop weekly

1 Admission into MBASWS-Master of Business Administration
1a Admission into MBASFN-Master of Business Administration (Finance)
1b Admission into MBASHL-Master of Business Administration (Health)
1c Admission into GCBAOL-Graduate Certificate in Business Administration
1d Admission into GDPBAOL-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
1e Admission into GDPBA-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
1f Admission into GCBA-Graduate Certificate in Business Administration
1g Admission into MSCGH-Master of Science (Groundwater Hydrology)
Must Satisfy: ((1 or 1a or 1b or 1c or 1d or 1e or 1f or 1g))

1 of BUSN3052, BUSN9211 has been successfully completed

Master of Accounting; Master of Accounting (Advanced); Master of Business Administration; Master of Business Administration (Advanced); Graduate Diploma in Research (Business); Graduate Certificate in Research (Business)

The topic aims to provide students with skills and knowledge to improve their potential to assume or further develop leadership positions in all three business sectors. The topic builds on skills in problem recognition and solving, in business practices and human interaction issues. The topic covers leadership and management differences, the development of leadership, teams and followers, situational effects, leadership in crises and change and leadership skills. The approach is multi-faceted with business, politics, society and historical aspects covered. A special feature of the format is the experiential program designed to give students exposure to team work and reflection within an experiential context.

The educational aims of the topic are to have students understand:

• how leadership and managment are different and how they are used to achieve business and societal goals
• the roles of leaders, teams, followers and situations in business and society
• how leaders should act in times of crisis and how and why what they should do often differs from what is actually done
• why leadership development is important for continuing success of businesses and other entities
• the role played in history by leaders whose actions can teach us about modern society
• the role of experiential learning in leadership and personal development.

Upon completing this topic students will have had an opportunity to acquire or further develop:

• knowledge of the roles of managers and leaders, of the importance of leadership style, of theories of leadership
• skills and experiences from the team-based experiential learning program
• the ability to critically analyse the interaction between leaders, followers, and situations
• reasoning and analytical skills at an advanced level to enable satisfactory completion of assignments, examination and involvement in the experiential learning program
• familiarity with the key leadership journals so that:
  • a) current views of the development of the discipline can be incorporated, as appropriate, into discussion, written work and the experiential program
  • b) the research paper component of the assessment utilises the academic journal articles effectively in terms of understanding and incorporating qualitative and quantitative findings

• Information search and usage skills via the library, FLO, the Internet and from within the experiential project groups.