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Leadership and Change Management

Overview

  • Credit value: 30 credits at Level 3
  • Convenor: Jose Camarena Brenes
  • Assessment: a 1000-word individual report/essay (30%) and a 2000-word individual report/essay (70%)

Module description

In this Foundation Year module we examine the role and importance of:

  • leadership and teams in organisations
  • change and change management in organisations.

We will explore the mix of attributes, skills and capabilities required of successful leaders, change managers and effective team players, as well as the nature of team working, the process involved in building and maintaining high-performance teams, and managing change: why it occurs, how people react to change, the need for employee involvement and approaches to managing change in organisations.

Indicative syllabus

  • An overview of leadership theories
  • Key characteristics of effective leaders
  • Key characteristics of high-performing teams
  • Team building and the team development lifecycles
  • Team roles and responsibilities
  • Importance of leadership to successful teams
  • The causes and the need for organisational change
  • The major issues involved in managing change effectively
  • How to manage the processes of change management
  • How management practice needs to adapt to lead effective change
  • The skills needed by management in order to lead effective change

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

  • demonstrate knowledge of the concept of leadership within organisations
  • demonstrate knowledge of the role and importance of teams within organisations
  • evaluate the characteristics of effective teams, the role individuals play in teams and how leaders build and motivate successful teams
  • evaluate the causes and the need for organisational change
  • analyse the major issues involved in managing change effectively
  • demonstrate knowledge of managing the processes of change management
  • evaluate how management practice needs to adapt to lead effective change
  • demonstrate knowledge of the skills needed by management in order to lead effective change.