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Level 4 Diploma in Accounting and Business

Key Leadership Theories

AB406 · Leading and Managing Teams — Week 3 of 16

CourseAB406
Week3 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Key Leadership Theories

  1. Trait and behavioural approaches
  2. Fiedler's contingency model
  3. Transformational and transactional leadership
  4. Situational leadership framework
  5. Transactional vs Transformational Leadership
  6. Contingency Theory of Leadership Explained
  7. Situational Leadership Model Explained

What you will be able to do

  • 1.2 Explain key leadership theories.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain key leadership theories.

Study materials

Videos

  • Transactional vs Transformational Leadership · YouTube · Alexander Lyon Communication Coach · 11 min · for registered students
  • Contingency Theory of Leadership Explained · YouTube · EPM · 11 min · for registered students
  • Situational Leadership Model Explained · YouTube · EPM · 10 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Organizational Behavior, ch. 12: Leading People Within Organizations · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 494–544 · for registered students
  • Organizational Behavior, ch. 12: Leadership · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 341–378 · for registered students
  • Principles of Management, ch. 13: Leadership · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 375–412 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Distinguishing Leadership and Management
  • Week 2: Key Management Theories
  • Week 3: Key Leadership Theories
  • Week 4: Foundations of Team Development
  • Week 5: High-Performance Teams and Models
  • Week 6: Motivation Theories in Team Performance
  • Week 7: Techniques for Improving Individual and Business Performance
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Contemporary Challenges in Leading and Managing
  • Week 10: Assessing Own Leadership and Management Capacity
  • Week 11: Personal and Professional Development Planning
  • Week 12: Applying Leading and Managing Teams in practice: case studi…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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