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Understanding Leadership
Postgraduate | TAS-ESM709 | 2023
Course information for 2023 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Understanding Leadership
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject the learner will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the theories, styles and practices of leadership
- Critically reflect on the nature of leadership and its practice within educational and other organisational contexts.
- Demonstrate your ability to use the literature to support the arguments that you make.
- Apply new knowledge and understandings in a critically analytical way to practice
- Approaches to leadership
- Trait & skills
- Behavioural & situational leadership
- Theories of leadership
- Path-goal theory
- Leader member exchange
- Transformational leadership
- Authentic leadership
- Servant leadership
- Adaptive leadership
- Contemporary leadership issues
- Leadership & power
- Psychodynamic approach
- Team leadership
- Gender & leadership
- Leadership: A personal journey
- Leadership identity journey
- Leadership & Ethics
Expectations of leaders in educational and other settings can change significantly over the course of a career. In addition to understanding individual issues of changing professional identity, self-preparation, and role transition, leaders are required to engage with heightened responsibilities when government and institutional reforms of structure, culture and practice entail high stakes accountability through outcome-focused performance targeting. By the end of this unit, you will have developed advanced knowledge and skills in the connection between individual and systemic change in leadership practice through study of modules on: approaches to leadership, theories and styles of leadership, the practice of leadership; and the social dimension of leadership in educational and related work contexts. Part of the aims this unit is to enable you to have a better understanding of yourself as a leader and how to lead others.
- Reflective Case Study (60%)
- Comparative Essay (40%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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