Adaptive Leadership (MGMT90264)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
About this subject
Contact information
Term 1
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Dr Belinda Allen allenbc@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
| Availability | Term 1 - Online |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
In Adaptive Leadership, students learn and apply core knowledge, skills and tools to recognize and navigate leadership opportunities and challenges in the context of digital transformation and dynamic competitive environments. The subject focuses in particular on how to build individual and collective capacity for change and agility.
To this end the subject focuses on leadership competencies in four domains:
- Personal effectiveness (including how to manage attention, and self-care)
- Ethical Judgement (including recognizing and managing biases and personal values in decision making)
- Creativity and Innovation (including the design thinking process, and testing ideas through experiments)
- Organisational Development (including managing organizational learning, and engaging stakeholders and communities)
Building on current academic research and leadership practice, students devise actionable strategies to address complex day-to-day leadership challenges in a context of organizational complexity, disruptive technologies, and diverse stakeholder needs and demands. Students develop skills for critical analysis and reflection, for individual and collective decision making , and for supporting well-being in uncertain and challenging conditions. This subject includes lectures with leading experts, case studies, contemporary readings and resources, webinars, and facilitated online group discussions.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Advanced theoretical understanding and knowledge of current research, debates, and practices in leadership with regards to organizational adaptiveness and change.
- Critically analyse leadership theories, debates, and practice through evidence-based research.
- Evaluate organizational, cultural, and economic contexts informing leadership practice.
- Transmit relevant leadership knowledge, skills and ideas to colleagues and other stakeholders.
- Apply leadership theories and evidence-based research to complex frontline leadership challenges.
Generic skills
- Self-knowledge and regulation
- Taking values-based action
- Understanding and demonstrating ethical behaviour in leadership
- Systems thinking
- Reflecting critically on their own learning and development
- Analysis and problem solving
- Strategic thinking and decision making
- Synthesising ideas, theories and data when developing solutions to problems related to leadership
- Retrieving relevant information from a variety of sources and applying it in their workplaces
Last updated: 4 March 2025
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: 4 March 2025
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Activities within modules
| From Week 1 to Week 8 | 40% |
ePortfolio of Leadership Development Activity
| Week 8 | 60% |
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Dates & times
- Term 1 - Online
Coordinator Belinda Allen Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 24 hours of online contact; 56 hours of case study analysis; 20 hours of online forum discussion activity; 70 hours of online activities, participation in simulations, and other management related analyses. Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 20 January 2025 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period, students should familiarise themselves with the learning platform and the subject requirements. Teaching period 27 January 2025 to 23 March 2025 Last self-enrol date 21 January 2025 Census date 14 February 2025 Last date to withdraw without fail 7 March 2025 Assessment period ends 30 March 2025 Term 1 contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Dr Belinda Allen allenbc@unimelb.edu.au
What do these dates mean
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Last updated: 4 March 2025
Further information
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Last updated: 4 March 2025