Master 2023/2024

Leadership and Project Team Management

Type: Elective course (Business Analytics and Big Data Systems)

Area of studies: Business Informatics

Delivered by: Department of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management

Where: Graduate School of Business

When: 1 year, 3 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Stanislav Kiselev

Master’s programme: Business Analytics and Big Data Systems

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 24

Course Syllabus

Abstract

An increasing number of organisations are relying on teams – project teams, product development teams, virtual teams, and autonomous working teams to compete in a rapidly changing domestic and global market. The reason for this is the ability of teams to perform at high levels and adapt quickly to escalating demands. Hence in today’s professional environment, more than ever, there is great emphasis placed on team leadership skills, team communication skills and team management styles. Team effectiveness is enhanced by a team’s commitment to reflect and perform on-going evaluation. Leadership comes from within us, in the sense that deeply held values and principles provide the road map for the way we lead, and the way other people respond. Hence it is important that a Leader must first understand and then communicate one’s own value systems to other people. The course examines the stages of development of leadership theory, leadership styles based on emotional intelligence, theory and model of motivation. Special attention is paid to the issues of team building, conflict management, team coaching.

Learning Objectives

• The purpose of Leadership and project team management course is to form knowledge and understanding about key theories, competencies and practical skills of working as a team leader and a project team member.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• • Understand personal mission and values and define one’s own leadership brand
• - Understand communication as the cornerstone of team success. - Know some of the most effective strategies for team communication
• • be able to identify the characteristics of team members with different styles, preferred roles in the team; • know the specifics of the interaction of members of remote teams, technologies and tools for organizing the work of remote teams.
• • know the definitions and classifications of groups and teams, the processes of the internal dynamics of the team during the transition from one stage of development to another;
• • know the definition and functions of conflict, classification of conflicts, strategies of behavior in conflict;
• • know the history of the development of leadership theories, their advantages and disadvantages; • understand the essence of leadership, various leadership styles, the relationship between the leader and his followers;
• • Understand how to approach the ethical leadership problems • Understand business ethics-related theories and principles;
• Is be able to describe the concepts of leader and leadership. Understand what changes are happening in the business environment and how they change leaders. Understand how leadership skills develop over time. Know the stages of team development and the leader’s role at each stage.
• Aware of the differences between leadership as a position and leadership as a process, leader and manager. Understand the characteristics of a formal and informal leader. Become familiar with different leadership styles. Develop practical skills in defining and developing own leadership style.
• Develop practical skills in analyzing leadership styles, applying the leadership style most appropriate to the stage of company development, determining the stage of team development and applying leadership approaches appropriate to each stage, managing a team in terms of goal setting, evaluation and motivation, managing distributed teams.
• Analyze how a leader influences the success of a company. Get an understanding of the destructive manifestations of leadership and study approaches to correcting dysfunctional leadership.

Course Contents

• Introduction to Leadership
• Self-leadership
• Ethical, Authentic, and Servant Leadership
• Workgroup and Team Building
• Conflicts and teams leadership
• Different Types of Teams
• Team Role Theory
• Communication in the Workplace and Communication Skills

Assessment Elements

• exam
  What's the secong Level of Manager by John Maxwell? -production - Pinnacle - Mastership
• case
  The student needs to answer the suggested questions
• Activity at lectures and seminars
  Active participation in the discussion.* Answers to questions during lectures
• Practical work My Team Leadership Brand
  The task is being completed: - based on the results of tests and self-assessment of their leadership qualities - individually

Interim Assessment

• 2023/2024 3rd module
  0.25 * Activity at lectures and seminars + 0.2 * Practical work My Team Leadership Brand + 0.25 * case + 0.3 * exam

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Leadership : theory and practice, Northouse, P. G., 2013
• Leadership : theory and practice, Northouse, Peter G., 2018
• Mastering team leadership, Cartwright R., 2002
• Stephan Proksch. (2016). Conflict Management. Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.b.spr.mgmtpr.978.3.319.31885.1

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Armstrong's handbook of strategic human resource management, Armstrong, M., 2011
• Leading project teams : the basics of project management and team leadership, Cobb, A. T., 2012

Authors

• KISELEV STANISLAV Viacheslavovich