MGMT616-20S1 (C) Semester One 2020

Leadership

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2020
End Date: Sunday, 21 June 2020
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 February 2020
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 29 May 2020

Description

The course addresses the topic of leadership in relation to the responsibility of the leader towards various stakeholders (e.g. employees, shareholders, community, suppliers, and environment) in both national and international context. In the course we evaluate advanced leadership theory and build practical leadership capabilities.

This course investigates core leadership theories, including their development, measurement, and application to real world situations. This course will help you recognise leadership characteristics and contextual factors that contribute to effective leadership, and can help you diagnose leadership situations to make interventions.

Learning Philosophy: This course is a student-centered, not lecturer-centered, learning experience. What this means is that everyone – lecturers and students – needs to be an active participant in whatever is going on in class, and that we all are interconnected and responsible for facilitating learning. Class time involves discussions based on outside-of-class reading and assignments. In order for everyone to learn, please come prepared for class.

Learning Outcomes

The MCom learning goals are as follows:

1. Graduates can demonstrate in-depth knowledge and understanding of current theoretical concepts and frameworks within their major discipline.

2. Graduates are able to think logically, analytically and critically with respect to the academic literature in their major discipline.

3. Graduates can plan and carry out a supervised programme of academic research that shows a sound understanding of ethical practice.

4. Graduates are able to synthesise academic or professional literature and effectively communicate research orally and in written form.

The learning objectives for this course align with the above MCom learning goals, such that at the end of the course students will be able to:

Explain how discourse such as narrative and materiality (Including images) combine to create leadership.

Critically evaluate an example of leadership discourse.

Design and deliver a persuasive presentation that models key leadership principles and practices that are covered in the first half of the course.

Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to critique established leadership models.

Synthesise academic literature and critique it as it applies to leadership and organisations.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval by the Head of Department

Restrictions

MGMT416

Equivalent Courses

MGMT416

Course Coordinator

For further information see Management, Marketing and Tourism Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Leadership discourse analysis 27 Mar 2020 30% Leadership discourse analysis
Opinion leadership presentation 10 Apr 2020 20% Opinion leadership presentation
Review of Academic Article 08 May 2020 20% Review of Academic Article
Leadership Interview & Analysis 29 May 2020 30% Leadership Interview & Analysis


1. Discourse analysis
Students will select an example of leadership discourse and analyse this using the concepts and techniques presented in class to show how elements in the language are contributing to the leadership effect. The leadership discourse should not be any that has been examined in class. The analysis will be no more than 2000 words, will be formatted using APA Edition 7 style, and will clearly demonstrate an understanding of how language is used to assert power and influence. The discourse that is analysed needs to be appended to the assignment but does not count towards the word limit. The lines in this discourse should be numbered so they can be referenced easily.

2. Individual presentation: Persuasion as opinion leadership
Each student will identify a contemporary issue and design and deliver a 6-10 minute persuasive presentation that incorporates the leadership principles and public presentation skills studied in class. The aim will be to persuade the audience of the value of a stated position in relation to this issue and call the audience members to act (e.g., legalising euthanasia, guaranteeing a living wage, freely available medicinal cannabis, equal gender ratios on boards of directors, banning digital media in tertiary classrooms). Marks will be given for the quality of the evidence and arguments used as well as how the presentation is structured and delivered. Students are strongly advised to familiarise themselves with how Monroe’s Motivated Sequence is used in practice. This sequence will be introduced in class.

3. Review of Academic Article
Identify an academic article that relates to course concepts and write-up a 2000 word review of the article answering some basic questions: (1) What is the purpose of the article (research report, theory development, critique)? (2) What is the question or focus of the article, and why does the author argue that it is important? (3) What evidence or support is used to convince readers? (4) How does the article relate to other leadership literature? Where does it conflict with other literature? (5) Does the article inform your understanding of leadership? If so, how? If not, why not? (6) Would you recommend the article to someone else? If so, who and why? If not, why not?

4. Leadership Interview
Interview a leader about her/his perceptions of leadership. What has allowed them to succeed as a leader? What do they see as the essence of leadership? Consider their responses in light of the various leadership approaches e.g. strengths, traits, skills, behaviours, authentic, relational, etc. How might you analyse their success and failures, and their interpretation of leadership? It is unlikely that your participant will be aware of the frameworks of leadership theories, so you will need to listen to make your own assessment of how they think about leadership.  This assignment can be done in pairs.

Your paper should be no more than 2000 words. Include a brief description of the person’s job role to establish some context.  We will be discussing your interviews during the last week of the course, so bring your material to class on the 29 May. We will begin class by briefly sharing what we found from these interviews.

For all written assignments use APA Edition 7 style for formatting and citations/references.

The marks for assessments may be scaled before a final grade is determined.  You should not regard 50% as a pass mark.

Coversheets are not required, as all assessments are uploaded via Learn.

Textbooks / Resources

Academic articles for each lecture can be located and downloaded using the Multisearch function on the Library website.

Course handouts of selected readings and articles are available on LEARN. Students are encouraged to self-select readings to refer to in discussions.

It is important the set readings are completed before each class.

Course links

LEARN

Notes

Departmental Academic Policies for the MCom Programme
If you want a hard copy of this document, please ask the course co-ordinator. The Department assumes that you have read this document.

You should also read the General Course and Examination Regulations

Dishonest Practice
The University of Canterbury considers cheating and plagiarism to be serious acts of dishonesty.  All assessed work must be your own individual work unless specifically stated otherwise in the assessment guidelines. Material quoted from any other source must be clearly acknowledged. You must not copy the work of another person (student or published work) in any assessment including examinations, tests and assignments. Any person, who is found to have copied someone else's work, or to have allowed their work to be copied, will receive a fail grade for that piece of assessment and may face disciplinary action which may lead to a fine, community service or exclusion from the university.

IMPORTANT: Where there are concerns regarding the authorship of written course work, a student can be required to provide a formal, oral explanation of the content of their work.

Citations and referencing

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $982.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Management, Marketing and Tourism .

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