2024/2025
Leadership in Corporate Environment
Type:
Mago-Lego
When:
2 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Подовжняя Галина Геннадьевна
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
- Fundamentals of Leadership in Business
- Developing Leadership Competencies
- Communication and Influence in Leadership
- The Leader and the Team
- Strategic Leadership and Change Management
- Leadership, Corporate Culture, and Modern Trends
Assessment Elements
- ActivityActivity at seminars
- ExaminationThe examination is written in open book format. Five questions on the course topics will be offered, it is necessary to choose any three and write answers. The volume of the answer is 2, 5 - 3 pages of A4 (font 12, spacing 1,5). When arguing your position, you should refer to sources supporting your point of view (scientific articles, books, textbooks, lectures, etc.) The duration of the exam is 1 hour (60 min).
- Group projectStudents are divided into groups and work on a project on a given topic. The results of the work should be presented and defended in the form of a presentation
- Письменное задание
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 2nd module0.25 * Activity + 0.4 * Examination + 0.2 * Group project + 0.15 * Письменное задание
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Amah, O. E. (2017). Leadership Styles & Relational Energy in High Quality Mentoring Relationship. Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 53(1), 59–71. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=bsu&AN=127280795
- Bazerman, M. H. (2020). A New Model for Ethical Leadership. Harvard Business Review, 98(5), 90–97.
- Contemporary leadership theories : enhancing the understanding of the complexity, subjectivity and dynamic of leadership, Winkler, I., 2010
- Nathan Jamail. (2014). The Leadership Playbook : Creating a Coaching Culture to Build Winning Business Teams. Avery.
- Normore, A. H., Javidi, M., & Long, L. W. (2019). Handbook of Research on Strategic Communication, Leadership, and Conflict Management in Modern Organizations. Business Science Reference.
- Schoemaker, P. J. H., Heaton, S., & Teece, D. (2018). Innovation, Dynamic Capabilities, and Leadership. California Management Review, 61(1), 15–42. https://doi.org/10.1177/0008125618790246
- The design, art and methods of modern change management : учебное пособие / В. В. Великороссов, М. И. Максимов, Е. В. Генкин [и др.]. — Москва : Русайнс, 2020. — 124 с. — ISBN 978-5-4365-5374-0. — URL: https://book.ru/book/936723 (дата обращения: 26.08.2024). — Текст : электронный.
- The practitioner's handbook of team coaching, , 2019
- Thomas Lauer. (2019). Change Management. Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.b.spr.sprbok.978.3.662.59102.4
- van Knippenberg, D., & van Ginkel, W. P. (2021). A Diversity Mindset Perspective on Inclusive Leadership. Group & Organization Management, 1. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601121997229
- Воспитай в себе лидера 2.0, Максвелл, Дж., 2020
- Идеальный руководитель : почему им нельзя стать и что из этого следует, Адизес, И. К., 2023
- Лидерство. Теория и практика : профессиональный подход к управлению компаниями и людьми, Нортхаус, П. Г., 2023