MANAGEMT 7086NA - Fundamentals of Leadership
Ngee Ann Academy - Quadmester 4 - 2019
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General Course Information
Course Details
Course Code MANAGEMT 7086NA Course Fundamentals of Leadership Coordinating Unit Adelaide Business School Term Quadmester 4 Level Postgraduate Coursework Location/s Ngee Ann Academy Units 3 Available for Study Abroad and Exchange Y Course Staff
Lois Whittall, B.A. Hons, (University of Liverpool, UK), MBA (成人大片), FCMA
Office The Business School, Rm 1031, 10 Pulteney St
Telephone: +61 417 871 218
Email: lois.whittall@adelaide.edu.au
Skype name: loisemma
Lois Whittall has been an Adjunct Lecturer in the 成人大片’s MBA program since 1998. She has extensive experience in facilitating management education around the world - in Australia, the UK, and a wide range of Asian countries, particularly in Adelaide University’s postgraduate management program in Singapore. Currently, she teaches the core courses Fundamentals of Leadership (FOL) and Managing Contemporary Organisations in the MBA programs both on and off shore, and she teaches Organisational Behaviour, HRM and the Management of Change at undergraduate level. She also works extensively in Adelaide University’s Executive Education program running short workshops in leadership, change and appreciative inquiry. Lois has a distant background in finance and completed the Chartered Management Accounting qualification in 1982. She no longer teaches in finance.
Lois completed Ronald Heifetz’s course at Harvard: The Art and Practice of Teaching Leadership. As well as Leadership, her research interests are Change, Appreciative Inquiry and Social Entrepreneurship. She currently uses Action Research to explore these topics across her teaching and consulting and in the complex diverse culture of Cambodia.
Lois has worked at Executive Director and senior management levels in a variety of public and private sector firms in roles encompassing Organisational Development, Human Resource Management and Finance.
Lois’ last full time role was as Executive Director of an SME. In the five years before she left she worked with her team to more than double the size of the business. At present as well as teaching for the university she designs and delivers Leadership Development programs for a number of large and small firms. Her consultancy experience has been with global companies working in the oil sector, electronics, pharmaceuticals, software development, and government corporations.
In 2005 Lois started a project in Northern Cambodia which provides resources so that young women living in remote communities can finish high school and (if they do well enough) continue with higher education. The aim is to return teachers, doctors, nurses, business people and confident young women leaders to their villages. Working with some of the world’s poorest people in a province still infested with landmines involves a lot of learning especially about culture and leadership and creates an interesting life balance.
Course Timetable
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Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
Fundamentals of Leadership, positioned at the beginning of the MBA program, encourages students to explore issues and develop personal skills central to leadership. By developing analytical skills and self-awareness, students will be well placed to broaden their understanding of others thoughout the MBA program.
At the conclusion of this course, students should be able to:
1 Distinguish between ‘authority’ and ‘adaptive leadership’, identify examples of ‘authority’ and ‘adaptive leadership’ and reflect on their relative effectiveness in specific contexts 2 Identify, diagnose and analyse complicated and complex systems in the workplace and shift analytical focus from individuals towards these systems as well as separate the processes of observation and interpretation and resist quick interpretations leading to misguided actions 3
Undertake a process of personal transformation through the development of a wide array of leadership skills4 Propose ‘safe-to-fail’ experiments designed to help understand systems, themselves, and others and guide the way towards more effective leadership 5 Gain and develop insights on self and others in a workplace context and ask deep, probing questions and provide courageous feedback to colleagues that helps them to learn 6 Identify, source, evaluate, interpret and analyse both primary and secondary data to inform small scale research task University Graduate Attributes
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:
University Graduate Attribute Course Learning Outcome(s) Deep discipline knowledge
- informed and infused by cutting edge research, scaffolded throughout their program of studies
- acquired from personal interaction with research active educators, from year 1
- accredited or validated against national or international standards (for relevant programs)
CLO 1 Critical thinking and problem solving
- steeped in research methods and rigor
- based on empirical evidence and the scientific approach to knowledge development
- demonstrated through appropriate and relevant assessment
CLO 1,2,5,6 Teamwork and communication skills
- developed from, with, and via the SGDE
- honed through assessment and practice throughout the program of studies
- encouraged and valued in all aspects of learning
CLO 1,2,4,5 Career and leadership readiness
- technology savvy
- professional and, where relevant, fully accredited
- forward thinking and well informed
- tested and validated by work based experiences
CLO 1,2,3,4,5,6 Intercultural and ethical competency
- adept at operating in other cultures
- comfortable with different nationalities and social contexts
- able to determine and contribute to desirable social outcomes
- demonstrated by study abroad or with an understanding of indigenous knowledges
CLO 1,3,5 Self-awareness and emotional intelligence
- a capacity for self-reflection and a willingness to engage in self-appraisal
- open to objective and constructive feedback from supervisors and peers
- able to negotiate difficult social situations, defuse conflict and engage positively in purposeful debate
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Learning Resources
Required Resources
Text Book:
The following two books are required reading for this course:
Heifetz, R.A and Linsky, M., 2002 Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading (Boston: Harvard Business School Press,)
Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey, 2009, Immunity to Change, How to overcome it and Unlock the potential in Yourself and your Organization, Harvard Business Review Press.
Information about other reading is on MyUni and can be accessed by students enrolled in the courseRecommended Resources
Additional Reading and References:
Students may wish to read more widely in specific subject areas, something that the BUSINESS SCHOOL wholeheartedly encourages. There are many general texts on management and leadership, and on managerial skills that students may find useful. Perhaps of greatest assistance though are readings from leading academic journals, current business journals and the better newspapers. Relevant journals include:
- Academy of Management Journal (USA),
- Academy of Management Review (USA),
- Administrative Science Quarterly (USA),
- Australian Journal of Public Administration,
- California Management Review,
- Harvard Business Review (USA),
- Journal of Management and Organisation,
- Journal of Conflict Resolution,
- Journal of Management,
- Leadership Quarterly,
- Personnel Psychology (USA)
Online Learning
Important messages, topic notes, power point slides, case studies, Discussion Boards and other materials relating to the course will be placed on MyUni throughout the course. MyUni can be found at ( ) -
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Assessment
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- Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
- Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
- Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
- Assessment must maintain academic standards.
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Course Grading
Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:
M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme) Grade Mark Description FNS Fail No Submission F 1-49 Fail P 50-64 Pass C 65-74 Credit D 75-84 Distinction HD 85-100 High Distinction CN Continuing NFE No Formal Examination RP Result Pending Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.
Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.
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Student Feedback
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