Leading
Unit code: HBO480
| Credit points | 12.5 Credit Points |
| Duration | One teaching period |
| Contact hours | 36 hours |
| Campus | Hawthorn |
| Prerequisites | Nil |
| Corequisites | Nil |
Related course(s)
A core unit in the following programs:
An elective unit in the Master of Information Technology Business Analysis
Aims and objectives
This unit aims to provide a strong insight into and experience of leadership, followership and cross-functional and cross-cultural teams. It entails an understanding and experience of teamwork as the key to working with the complexity of contemporary business and enterprise in the 21st century, whether global or local.
After successfully completing this unit, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate real-time awareness of the reciprocal interpersonal dynamics which involve self and others;
- Demonstrate awareness of the responses triggered by the anxiety associated with complex and ‘wicked problems’;
- Explain how groups function and how you and others influence that functioning in conscious and unconscious ways;
- Analyse your capability and make decisions about what needs to change to improve your leadership capability.
Assessment
Class participation and engagement (Individual) 5 - 10%
Reflective Personal Diary Part A (Individual) 5 - 10%
Reflective Personal Diary Part A (Individual) 5 - 10%
Reflective Personal Diary Part B (Individual) 30 - 40%
Small Learning Group leadership of class (Group) 20 - 40%
Commitment Briefing Note (Individual) 5% - 15%
Generic skills outcomes
The unit will help develop the following capabilities:
- Leadership: Interdependence, Engaging with Ambiguity and Paradox; Effective action and influence;
- Entrepreneurship: Opportunity Evaluation
- Lifelong Learning: Action Learning, Team-based learning; feedback.
Content
Students learn to understand a strategic perspective of organisations embedded in global dynamics. They are able to use business competencies in order to exercise socially responsible leadership and followership in teams. They are able to learn how to learn. Key areas of focus are:
- Understanding the leadership choice
- Performing in multi-functional/cultural teams
- Group development and decision making; awareness of group and inter-group processes as they occur (both conscious and unconscious)
- Reflective practice: observing, generalising and applying learning to organisational settings
- Systemic thinking: an introduction to organisation dynamics
- The process of opportunity evaluation
- Relevance of Self and other awareness, psychological presence and teamwork for entrepreneurs
