Postgraduate Course: Strategic Leadership (MBA) (CMSE11282)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Common Courses (Management School) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The 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 MBA, 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 |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Full Year, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
15/09/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 48,
Summative Assessment Hours 88,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
60 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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. |
Assessment Information
Individual Report (3000 words) 60%
Individual Reflective Assignment (2000 words) 40% |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Finkelstein, S., Hambrick, D.C., & Cannella, A.A. (2009) Strategic leadership. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Susan Murphy
Tel: (01316)51 5548
Email: Susan.Murphy@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Kate Ainsworth
Tel: (0131 6)51 3854
Email: Kate.Ainsworth@ed.ac.uk |
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