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Level 4 Diploma in Accounting and Business

Contemporary Challenges in Leading and Managing

AB406 · Leading and Managing Teams — Week 9 of 16

CourseAB406
Week9 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Contemporary Challenges in Leading and Managing

  1. Managing remote and hybrid working environments
  2. Navigating workforce diversity and inclusion
  3. Addressing employee burnout and mental well-being
  4. Managing digital transformation and technological disruption
  5. Stanford Webinar - Managing the Remote & Hybrid Workplace: Global Insights
  6. Recognising the signs of burnout and stress at work
  7. Managing Diversity in Organizations - Organizational Psychology Lecture 2.3

What you will be able to do

  • 3.5 Explain the contemporary challenges of leading and managing staff.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain the contemporary challenges of leading and managing staff.

Study materials

Videos

  • Stanford Webinar - Managing the Remote & Hybrid Workplace: Global Insights · YouTube · Stanford Online · 30 min · for registered students
  • Recognising the signs of burnout and stress at work · YouTube · acasorguk · 7 min · for registered students
  • Managing Diversity in Organizations - Organizational Psychology Lecture 2.3 · YouTube · Professor Q · 8 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • CIPD: Flexible and hybrid working practices in 2023 · PDF · Other, report · for registered students
  • Systematically reviewing remote e-workers' well-being at work: a multidimensional approach · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
  • Principles of Management, ch. 12: Diversity in Organizations · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 341–374 · 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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