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Foundations of Leadership (MGMT90232)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2022
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Overview
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Foundations of Leadership, as part of the Professional Certificate in Workplace Leadership, is designed to offer significant practical learning opportunities for a diverse range of early career professionals seeking to develop their business, managerial and leadership skills and knowledge. It is also suitable for emerging leaders, or those who have been promoted, or seek promotion and wish to develop their leadership capabilities to complement their technical knowledge and expertise, in order to get the most out of themselves and their teams.
In Foundations of Leadership, students will learn and apply core knowledge, skills and tools needed to be effective organisational leaders. This subject investigates what leadership is, why it is important and analyses the factors that impact upon workplace leadership and the impacts leadership has in an organisational context. This subject will begin by focusing on leadership of self, and the role of leadership in contemporary organisations. Students will undertake diagnostic assessment and reflective exercises to gain insights into their leadership values, strengths and weaknesses and use these to create a personal leadership development plan. Students will also undertake a range of learning activities including simulated leadership challenges to demonstrate core capabilities including; interpreting and influencing, planning and problem solving. They will also apply and develop fundamental leadership skills such as collaboration, relationship building, listening and communication and self-reflection. This subject provides the foundation for the second subject in the course, Leadership in Practice, in which students will develop more advanced leadership knowledge and skills for leading and influencing within increasingly complex organisational environments and systems.
This subject includes lectures with leading experts, case studies, leadership diagnostics, contemporary readings and resources, facilitated and group discussions.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject students will be able to:
- Demonstrate insight into what leadership is and why it is important
- Understand the broader trends affecting the future of work and modern workplace leadership
- Identify the knowledge, skills and applications of effective workplace leadership
- Analyse key issues related to effective leadership
- Explain how leadership impacts on employee performance, both positively and adversely
- Reflect upon his or her role, values, personal ability and opportunities to practice effective leadership within his or her teams, departments and broader organisations
- Design a personal leadership development plan
Generic skills
On successful completion of this program, students should have enhanced their skills in:
- Self knowledge and regulation
- Taking values-based action.
- Reflecting critically on their own learning and development
- Understanding and demonstrating ethical behaviour in leadership
- Analysis and problem solving
- Written and oral communication
- Giving and receiving effective feedback
- Strategic thinking and decision making
- Effective teamwork and interdisciplinary collaboration (including online)
- Synthesising ideas, theories and data when developing solutions to problems related to management and leadership.
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
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
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Individual weekly online discussion board contributions (equivalent to 1250 words in total)
| From Week 1 to Week 8 | 25% |
Individual Leadership Development Outline. (750 words) (15%); Due in the first half of the term.
| Early term | 15% |
Individual Case Analysis. (1000 words) (20%); Due midway through term.
| Mid term | 20% |
Individual Leadership Development Plan. (2000 words) (40%). End of assessment period.
| At the end of the assessment period | 40% |
Additional details
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Dates & times
Not available in 2022
Time commitment details
Estimated total time commitment of 170 hours per semester Note: About half (80hrs) is "contact" i.e. 10 hours per week The remaining time is spent on readings and assessments. of the 10 contact hrs per week, about half in didactic instruction (viewing content, either text, video, animation, etc.), and the other half is more student-centred and interactive, either - asynchronous (discussion boards) or - synchronous (1hr webinars at appropriate times throughout the term; students are encouraged but not mandated to attend live webinars and recordings are available)
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
This subject will use a Course Pack approach and provide students with relevant just-in-time readings from refereed journals, current academic monographs, industry and grey literature as well as relevant audio and video resources.
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 9 April 2024