Module: BMA6115-20 Leadership and Management

Level: 6

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Dr Ben Davies

Module Tutor Contact Details: b.davies2@bathspa.ac.uk

1.Brief description and aims of module:

The module introduces students to the theory and practice of leadership, with an emphasis on business organisations but covering leadership challenges and opportunities across a range of contexts. Students learn different approaches to understanding and analysing leadership, including both popular training approaches and more cross-disciplinary perspectives, as well as practicing leadership in the classroom context and developing reflections on their own styles and experiences.

The core aims are:

• To introduce students to established theories of leadership, with an emphasis on business

• To equip students with a range of strategies for exercising leadership in organisations

• To give students experience of trying to lead a team

• To enable students to reflect on what is involved in successful team leadership

• To establish foundations for developing personal leadership capabilities into the future

This modules aims to develop the following graduate attributes:

• Able to understand and manage complexity, diversity and change;

• Critical thinkers: able to express their ideas in written and oral form, and possessing information literacy;

• Ethically aware: prepared for citizenship in a local, national and global context.

2.Outline syllabus:

Following an introductory session, the course comprises four components covering different approaches to understanding leadership: individual approaches (3 weeks), situational approaches (3 weeks), relational approaches (2 weeks), and cross-cultural dimensions (2 weeks). The course concludes with personal reflections on leadership.

3.Teaching and learning activities:

The course is taught with a mixture of theory and practice.

There is a one-hour lecture on theory, and a two-hour practice seminar including individual and group work, including a requirement for each student to assume a leadership role in managing delivery of a group output on a set task between seminars.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Production of ‘A Guide to Leadership’ (3000 words)

• % Weighting: 60%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Group presentation (20 minutes) with individual reflection

• % Weighting: 40%