30262 - LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Department of Management and Technology
Course taught in English
CLEAM (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10) - CLEF (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10) - CLEACC (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10) - BESS-CLES (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10) - WBB (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10) - BIEF (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10) - BIEM (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10) - BIG (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10) - BEMACS (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10)
Course Director:
LAURA BARUFFALDI
LAURA BARUFFALDI
Suggested background knowledge
Basic knowledge of Organizational Behavior. Although this is not a pre-requisite, please keep in mind that the course is taught exclusively in English; therefore complete fluency in English is required. During the course, the students are shown movies in English without subtitles, assigned academic readings in English and administered tests/exams for which dictionaries are not allowed.
Mission & Content Summary
MISSION
The course Leadership Skills provides you with the opportunity to challenge yourself with setting up the pre-conditions for optimal performance to be achieved with and through the people you are working with. It improves your ability to build and manage constructive relationships and to get to high value added results managing not only your own, but also other people’s performance. The determinants of optimal performance, that is competence, motivation and positive psychological states, are explored with the aim of both improving your ability to engage yourself and the people you are working with and your effectiveness when managing problem/underperforming people.
Leadership skills give you the opportunity to reflect and act upon change: change is one of the relevant dimensions of leadership and becoming a leader requires you to go through a personal and professional transition. Leadership skills gives you the resources needed to specifically manage the transition from Individual Contributor to Manager providing you with greater self-awareness and therefore increased effectiveness.
CONTENT SUMMARY
- What is leadership? What are its value added and challenges?
- The main theories of leadership: trait, behaviors, situational approach, as well as new-age theories of leadership.
- Influence and persuasion.
- Corruption / Ethical leadership.
- Creativity.
- Designing and leading teams.
- Power
- Organizational culture and leadership in multicultural environments.
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
At the end of the course student will be able to...
- Know and understand leadership-specific terms.
- Have an understanding of yourself as a person and as a leader in terms of personality traits, leadership capacity, and proclivity to biases that dampen leadership potential.
- Know best practices for acting and leading in different situations (conditional on a variety of factors).
- Know how to manage people in a multicultural and dynamic environment.
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
At the end of the course student will be able to...
- Choose the most appropriate leadership style given the situation.
- Be persuasive in your communications with people with whom you are working.
- Stimulate creative work among people with whom you are working.
- Draw on benefits and overcome challenges associated with teamwork.
- Develop sensitivity to different cultures.
Teaching methods
- Online lectures
- Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)
- Case studies /Incidents (traditional, online)
- Individual assignments
- Group assignments
- Interactive class activities (role playing, business game, simulation, online forum, instant polls)
DETAILS
Weekly lectures are supplemented with engaging slides, example videos, class activities, and group project assignements.
Assessment methods
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ATTENDING STUDENTS
40% of the grade: for the second part of the course students will prepare a short presentation (10 slides max) with a short executive summary (2 pages max) to describe, interpret, and analyze the leadership style of a public figure of their choice in the light of the theoretical frameworks and insights discussed in class. This will be done in small groups and will be presented in the final day of class. Further detail about this group assignment will be provided in class.
60% of the grade: a final exam at the end of the course that rely on multiple choice and open questions, primarily based on what has been discussed in class.
Students have to earn a minimum grade of 18/30 to pass the course.
NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS
100% of the grade: final exam at the end of the course that rely on multiple choice and open questions, based on the following course material:
Northouse, P. G. (2013 – 6th edition). Leadership: Theory and practice. Sage publications.
Students have to earn a minimum grade of 18/30 to pass the course.
Teaching materials
ATTENDING STUDENTS
slides and material uploaded on BBoard
NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS
Northouse, P. G. (2013 – 6th edition). Leadership: Theory and practice. Sage publications.
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