MGT 8038 Leadership Development

Course Specification for MGT 8038
1 credit point

SYNOPSIS:
We live in a world where the breadth of local, national and international issues confronting our global community is both increasingly complex and diverse; this creates a great need around the world to find new and improved ways of doing business. Leaders and potential leaders need to ensure they have or can develop the necessary skills to lead successfully in this complex environment. This course exposes you to the dynamics related to leadership, being a leader and developing the leadership capability of yourself, other people and organisations in a changing world. The course is designed to allow leaders and managers to reflect on the topics of leadership and the development of leadership capability in a systemic way. It is designed as the first in a four unit leadership specialisation series, although it can be studied as a stand-alone course. It focuses on you as a leader who aims to understand and exercise leadership as it is construed in your own workplace or organization as well as on the peculiar needs of any organization to develop its leadership capability. As such this course lays the foundation for leadership development across a number of different contexts. You will be challenged to consider the level, types and quality of leadership in real-life organisation(s) and to develop appropriate strategy(ies) for developing the leaders