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Level 7 Diploma in Business and Organisational Psychology

Leadership Adaptability, Crisis, and Change

BOP704 · Leadership and Management Style — Week 11 of 16

CourseBOP704
Week11 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Leadership Adaptability, Crisis, and Change

  1. Leading through volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) conditions
  2. Crisis decision-making and strategic sensemaking
  3. Managing external stakeholder pressures and institutional variables
  4. Integrating leadership styles for transformational outcomes
  5. Organizational Leadership Series: The Balancing Act of Leading Through a Crisis
  6. How can you create impact when leading through transformational change?
  7. Strategic Leadership in a VUCA World: Jonathan Woodson | Decision-Making: Voices from the Field

What you will be able to do

  • 2.2 Assess and analyse the significance of transformational leadership at an organisation.
  • 3.1 Assess the variables likely to impact leadership in an organisation context.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: assess and analyse the significance of transformational leadership at an organisation.

Study materials

Videos

  • Organizational Leadership Series: The Balancing Act of Leading Through a Crisis · YouTube · Columbia Business School · 57 min · for registered students
  • How can you create impact when leading through transformational change? · YouTube · Saïd Business School, University of Oxford · 58 min · for registered students
  • Strategic Leadership in a VUCA World: Jonathan Woodson | Decision-Making: Voices from the Field · YouTube · Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health · 5 min · for registered students
  • Making transformational change work · YouTube · The King's Fund · 7 min · for registered students
  • Durka Dougall: Transformational change in health and care · YouTube · The King's Fund · 5 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Leading Large Scale Change: a practical guide (NHS England, 2018) · PDF · Other, guidance; 123 pages · for registered students
  • MIT OpenCourseWare 15.322 Leading Organizations II (Fall 2003) · Reading · MIT OpenCourseWare, course · for registered students
  • Transformational Leadership and Employee Retention · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Distinguishing Leadership and Management
  • Week 2: Trait Theories and Personal Characteristics
  • Week 3: Skills, Competencies, and Emotional Intelligence
  • Week 4: Situational and Contingency Perspectives
  • Week 5: Transactional Leadership in Contemporary Organisations
  • Week 6: Transformational Leadership Theory
  • Week 7: Servant Leadership in Practice
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Authentic Leadership and Ethical Governance
  • Week 10: Contextual and Organisational Variables
  • Week 11: Leadership Adaptability, Crisis, and Change
  • Week 12: Applying Leadership and Management Style in practice: case …
  • 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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