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Leading and Managing Teams

BM405

Course CodeBM405
ECTS

Course Description

Having hard management and soft leadership skills is often stated by employers as being key to the success of a business but few people have sufficient quantities of both to make a significant impact on business operations and strategy. The aim of this unit, therefore, is to support a learner’s understanding of leadership as a role and management as a function so that they are able to develop the knowledge, skills and traits to make a meaningful contribution to a business’s success.

Course Outline

WeekTopics
1Leadership versus management: inspiring people and planning the work
2Leadership theories: trait theory, behaviour theories and leadership styles
3Leadership theories: situational, contingency, transactional and transformational
4Management theories: management schools and approaches
5Team development and high performance teams
6Team development models compared: Tuckman, Adair and McGregor
7Improving performance: SMART goals, training, appraisals, coaching and mentoring
8Midterm evaluation
9Why improving performance matters to the individual and to the business
10Motivation theories: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Herzberg’s two-factor theory
11Vroom’s expectancy theory and the role of motivation in team performance
12Determining own capacity to lead: personal SWOT and leadership/management assessments
13Self-assessment tools: MBTI and emotional intelligence assessment
14Assessing your own ability to improve: reflective journals and reflective statements
15Review and coursework completion
16Final evaluation and project assessment

Learning Outcomes

  1. LO1 Understand leadership and management theories.
  2. LO2 Understand how teams are developed.
  3. LO3 Understand how to improve individual and team performance.
  4. LO4 Be able to determine your own capacity to be an effective leader and manager.
Learning Resources

Adair, J. (2018) Develop Your Leadership Skills: Fast, Effective Ways to Become a Leader People Want to Follow. London: Kogan Page. Kelly, P. and Cole, G. (2020) Management: Theory and Practice. 9th ed. Boston: Cengage. Journal of Leadership & Organisational Studies Journal of Management

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