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Postgraduate Course: Strategic Leadership (EMBA) (CMSE11287)

Course Outline
SchoolBusiness School CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThe course aims to set out the changing global context within which business leadership occurs and to explore the implications for the nature of leadership and requirements of strategic leaders in the future. The course begins at the start of the EMBA, with a number of frame-setting seminars and webinars exploring the global challenges and implications arising from climate change, water insecurity, poverty, health issues, the energy crisis, globalisation and technological innovation. Facilitated by faculty, we draw on contributions from the University¿s new Global Academies, business practitioners and NGOs. These introductory seminars will be followed by a series of lectures and debates across Years 1 and 2, led by the Business School¿s faculty from the Centre for Strategic Leadership. In addition to setting an important context for strategic leadership, the course will serve as a point of integration across the MBA courses, using content experts to explore cross-cutting issues. The course will also include a Leadership Exchange and reflective assignment, enabling participants to compare and evaluate the leadership styles of others relative to their own in a work-specific context.
Course description The course will provide an integrating platform for the MBA. Key topics to be explored will include: (1) Setting the context in which business leadership occurs; (2) Strategic Leadership and Board Governance; (3) Shared strategic and team leadership, decision making, and alignment; (4) The role of numbers in strategic leadership through accounting and financial reporting; (5) Strategic leadership of technology and innovation; (6) Entrepreneurial thinking in leadership; (7) Issues of power and relations with media; (8) Leadership in managing human, social capital and radical change; (9) Global strategic leadership issues; (10) Leadership and natural capital; (11) Leadership in practice.

The learning strategy for the course is for participants to complete key readings from recommended textbooks and articles, attend interactive lectures, seminars and webinars led by practitioners, faculty and other thought-leaders. Participants will be encouraged to share their own experiences on leadership and the implementation of strategy within organisations. Slides and supporting materials will be made available on the course website, accessible through Learn.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Full Year
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 48, Summative Assessment Hours 88, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 60 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Individual Report (60%)
Individual Reflective Assignment (40%)
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding:
¿ Analyse an organisation for strengths and weaknesses in strategic leadership.
¿ Critically compare alternative approaches to understanding strategic leadership.
¿ Identify the relationship between businesses and global challenges.
¿ Understand the links between strategic leadership, innovation and organizational change.
¿ Understand the direct and indirect role of strategic leadership and strategic leaders within and across organisations.

Cognitive and Subject Specific Skills:
¿ Demonstrate holistic and interconnected thinking on business leadership issues and practice.
¿ Relate strategic leadership to the role of business and management functions.
¿ Engage in sophisticated debate and argument on contemporary leadership issues.
¿ Reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of one¿s own leadership style through observing and comparing with others.

Transferable Skills:
¿ Demonstrate enhanced interpersonal skills arising from practice in role play and debate.
¿ Successfully undertake independent reading and enquiry, and articulate convincing arguments in writing.
¿ Engage in active debate about one's own or potential leadership practice and experience.
¿ Develop self-awareness through active written reflection.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserProf Susan Murphy
Tel: (01316)51 5548
Email: Susan.Murphy@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Kate Ainsworth
Tel: (0131 6)51 3854
Email: Kate.Ainsworth@ed.ac.uk
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