Postgraduate Course: Strategic Leadership and Organisational Culture (fusion online) (EFIE11226)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh Futures Institute |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course will investigate the relationship, including the tensions, between strategic leadership, and organisational culture within service organisations. It will ask whether leadership is purely an attribute of strategic managers or whether it can be distributed throughout the organisation. It will also explore leadership and culture in virtual service organisations. |
| Course description |
This course draws on Service Management and Organisational Behaviour theory to explore and understand the interconnections between leadership and organisational culture in service organisations.
The course is comprised of three main elements:
1) Pre-intensive independent learning
This will be comprised of the following elements:
(i) a pre-recorded lecture, introducing an overview of the course and introducing students to strategic leadership and culture in a service setting;
(ii) pre-course reading
(iii) Facilitated discussion board for students to contribute ideas regarding the pre-course readings
2) Two-day intensive course.
This will comprise of a mixture of seminar content, discussion and group activities, involving insights from practice through guest speakers or recorded interviews. The first day will focus on strategic leadership in service settings , and the second day on organisational culture and service culture .
3) Post-intensive learning.
This part of the course will focus on preparation of the assignment and is comprised of three elements:
(i) course participants will be provided with additional papers on strategic leadership and organisational and service culture in order to help in the preparation of their assignments
(ii) a post intensive discussion board will enable students to continue to share ideas regarding their reading in the post intensive phase.
(iii) there will be an opportunity for formative feedback on students assignment ideas.
The student experience for all course participants will combine independent learning with group activities and investigation to facilitate a supportive and active learning environment. This will include independent study, on campus and virtual seminars, and group activities, including problem-based case studies and real-time investigations. The approach will also support critical reflection of leadership and management approaches and the potential implications for service delivery and organisational sustainability.
Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) - Online Fusion Course Delivery Information:
The Edinburgh Futures Institute will teach this course in a way that enables online and on-campus students to study together. This approach (our 'fusion' teaching model) offers students flexible and inclusive ways to study, and the ability to choose whether to be on-campus or online at the level of the individual course. It also opens up ways for diverse groups of students to study together regardless of geographical location. To enable this, the course will use technologies to record and live-stream student and staff participation during their teaching and learning activities. Students should note that their interactions may be recorded and live-streamed. There will, however, be options to control whether or not your video and audio are enabled.
As part of your course, you will need access to a personal computing device. Unless otherwise stated activities will be web browser based and as a minimum we recommend a device with a physical keyboard and screen that can access the internet.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 6 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
| Course Start Date |
13/01/2025 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 4,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 6,
Online Activities 4,
Formative Assessment Hours 4,
Other Study Hours 8,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
72 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
Other Study: Scheduled Group-work Hours (hybrid online/on-campus) - 8
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Summative Assessment:
The course will be assessed by means of the following assessment components:
1) Investigation Findings Report (100%)
This investigative assignment will build upon the preparatory work conducted during the pre-intensive and intensive parts of the course.
The written assignment will investigate the strategic leadership and organisational culture within a service setting. |
| Feedback |
Feedback on the formative assessment may be provided in various formats, for example, to include written, oral, video, face-to-face, whole class, or individual. The course organiser will decide which format is most appropriate in relation to the nature of the assessment.
Feedback on both formative and summative in-course assessed work will be provided in time to be of use in subsequent assessments within the course.
Feedback on the summative assessment will be provided in written form via Learn, the University of Edinburgh's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
Students will received feedback at various points during the course:
- During personal tutorials and group seminars;
- Though responsive email and/or personal contact with the course tutor and/or Teaching Assistant;
- By written feedback on their assignment (summative feedback). |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critically understand and be able to explain theory on strategic leadership and organisational culture in service settings.
- Demonstrate effective research enquiry to plan and investigate strategic leadership, and organisational culture within a service organisation.
- Critically evaluate the potential for leadership approaches to engender a diverse organisational culture.
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Reading List
Indicative Reading List:
Casciaro, T., Edmondson, A.C. & Jang, S. (2019) Cross-silo leadership. Harvard business review. 2019 (MayJune), 130?139.
Fitzgerald, L., Ferlie, E., McGivern, G. & Buchanan, D. (2013) Distributed leadership patterns and service improvement: Evidence and argument from English healthcare. The Leadership quarterly. 24 (1), 227?239.
The diversity gap in leadership: What are we missing in current theorizing? Fitzsimmons, T.W and Callan V.J. The Leadership Quarterly, 31(4) 2020
Gronroos, C. (2015) Service management and marketing: managing the service profit logic. 4th ed. New York, Wiley
Popli, S. & Rizvi, I.A. (2017) Leadership style and service orientation: the catalytic role of employee engagement. Journal of service theory and practice. 27 (1), 292?310.
Samimi, M., Cortes, A.F., Anderson, M.H. &
Herrmann, P. (2022) What is strategic leadership? Developing a framework for future research. The Leadership quarterly. 33 (3), 101353-. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101353.
Schein, E.H. (2017) Organizational culture and leadership Edgar H. Schein with Peter Schein. Fifth edition. Hoboken, New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
The learning content and the activities conducted throughout the course will equip course participants with the following graduate attributes and skills:
- Independent learning will support the use of personal and intellectual autonomy to support critical evaluation.
- Discussion sessions and group activities will support the development of communication skills .
- The core investigative element of the course will support the development of research skills. |
| Keywords | Strategic Leadership,EFI,Level 11,PG,Service Management,Organisational Culture |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Katharine Aulton
Tel: (0131 6)50 8074
Email: Katharine.Aulton@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr David Murphy
Tel:
Email: dmurphy7@ed.ac.uk |
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