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Indigenous Business Leadership (MGMT90254)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
October
Prof Michelle Evans michelle.evans@unimelb.edu.au
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
Availability | October - Online |
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This subject aims to introduce students to the key issues, concerns and theories of business leadership and Indigenous leadership studies. This subject aims to support students to build a framework for the practice of their own leadership. The subject will guide students in their study of leadership by helping to develop a critical engagement with theories of leadership. The subject will explore a diversity of theories, using them as a ‘lens’ to view and practice leadership. Students will be encouraged to engage with leadership theories, applying them to their own practice and/or experience of leadership.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of issues, concerns and theories of leadership and leadership studies
- Be able to build a framework for the practice of leadership in your business, workplace and/or community spaces of your leadership practice
- Be able to critically engage with issues, concerns and theories of leadership and Indigenous leadership
- Be able to recognise and articulate different ways of framing leadership
- Be able to put into practice learning about leadership theories and understand how to develop leadership opportunities.
Generic skills
- Critical evaluation of evidence in support of an argument or proposition
- Problem solving in management through the application of appropriate management theories, principles and data
- Demonstrate a capacity to successfully engage in collaborative activities such as group-based work and activities
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Entry into the Graduate Diploma of Indigenous Business Leadership.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Individual Assignment - Leadership Challenge Part One
| 16 October 2020 | 25% |
Group Presentation - Collective Leadership Team Project
| 11 November 2020 | 25% |
Individual Assignment - Leadership Challenge Part Two
| 4 December 2020 | 50% |
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Dates & times
- October - Online
Principal coordinator Michelle Evans Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 5 October 2020 to 23 November 2020 Last self-enrol date 15 October 2020 Census date 26 October 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 13 November 2020 Assessment period ends 4 December 2020 October contact information
Prof Michelle Evans michelle.evans@unimelb.edu.au
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Carroll, B., Ford, J., and Taylor, S. (2019 forthcoming) Leadership: Contemporary Critical Perspectives 2nd Edition, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, Singapore: Sage.
Last updated: 9 April 2024