Unit Outline

Leadership affects all organisations and is of increasing importance in today’s dynamic business world. The task of leading is generally associated with senior management, but all organisational members have the potential to exercise leadership by influencing and inspiring themselves and others. Effective leadership requires advanced knowledge of theory and skilful application. Leadership requires the capability to build relationships and develop and implement strategies to support the organisation and its people to achieve their objectives. This unit covers conventional and alternative perspectives on leadership and explores the practice of leadership in a range of contexts. Through the use of experiential activities and a blended learning approach, students will develop their leadership potential.

Intended Learning Outcomes

As per the Assessment and Results Policy 1.3, your results will reflect your achievement against specified learning outcomes.

On completion of this unit, you will be able to:

1.	Critically evaluate organisational leadership theories and concepts in sustainable organisational contexts.
2.	Cultivate self-awareness of the student's leadership identity.
3.	Evaluate the impact of leadership on organisations.

Requisites

REQUISITE TYPE	REQUISITES
Pre-requisite	25 credit points at any level from any discipline.

Alterations as a result of student feedback

To be determined.

How will I be Assessed?

For more detailed assessment information please see MyLO.

Assessment schedule

ASSESSMENT TASK #	ASSESSMENT TASK NAME	DATE DUE	WEIGHT	LINKS TO INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Assessment Task 1:	Team Presentation	Week 9 & Week 11	40 %	LO1, LO3
Assessment Task 2:	Learning Journal	Week 3, Week 5 & Week 7	30 %	LO1, LO2, LO3
Assessment Task 3:	Reflective Report: Making sense of my Leadership Philosophy	Week 13	30 %	LO2

Assessment details

Assessment Task 1: Team Presentation

Task Description:

The purpose of this assessment is to provide students the opportunity to analyse a sustainable leadership issue and apply theory to develop recommendations to address it over a presentation and report:

Part 1. Team Presentation (oral). In teams, students will present on a unique Sustainable Development Goal-aligned leadership challenge in a specific industry context including a stakeholder analysis, and leadership recommendations to address the issue using leadership theory.

Part 2. Individual Feedback Report (written). Individually, students will complete a Feedback Report, consisting of a peer review per team member, and a self-evaluation. Feedback reports consist of a 150 word peer review per peer (+/-10%), and a 300-word self evaluation.

Presentation due on Friday of Week 9; peer reviews due five days after Presentation (to peers); and full Individual Feedback Report in MyLo on Friday of Week 11.

Task Length:

10-minutes Feedback reports (see description)

Due Date:

Week 9 & Week 11

Weight:

40 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)

1	Recommend solutions using leadership theory and concepts in a specific organisational context.	LO1
2	Discuss the impacts of recommendations on the specified organisation	LO3

Assessment Task 2: Learning Journal

Task Description:

This cumulative assessment is designed to help students understand, integrate, and apply leadership theories and concepts. Students are required to complete three learning journals using the templated questions found on MyLO, prior to their corresponding workshop.
Due Dates:

Learning Journal 1. Friday of Week 3
Learning Journal 2. Friday of Week 5
Learning Journal 3. Friday of Week 7

Task Length:

1000 words per submission (+/- 10%)

Due Date:

Week 3, Week 5 & Week 7

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)

1	Evaluate organisational leadership theories and concepts.	LO1
2	Analyse the implications of theories and concepts for leadership practice.	LO3
3	Apply leadership theories and concepts to individual leader identity and practice.	LO2

Assessment Task 3: Reflective Report: Making sense of my Leadership Philosophy

Task Description:

The purpose of this assessment is to help students make sense of their personal Leadership Philosophy. To complete this assessment and develop your Leadership Philosophy, you will need to complete three phases of sense-making:

In Phase 1, students will draft a Leadership Philosophy, and articulate conflicting and supportive thoughts and feelings arising during the process of development.

In Phase 2, students will write a critical reflection following soliciting the perspectives of others (at least two classmates, an online large-language model tool, and at least two external contacts).

In Phase 3, students will reflect on how Phase 1 and 2 have influenced and changed their Leadership Philosophy, and submit a track-change Leadership Philosophy.

Due date: Friday of Week 13.

Task Length:

Each Phase = 500 words 3 x 500 words (+/- 10%) 1500 words total Each phase worth 10% of overall unit grade

Due Date:

Week 13

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)

1	Analyse personal thoughts and feelings in relation to a student's leadership philosophy	LO2
2	Reflect on how classmates’ thinking and feeling contribute to your sensemaking	LO2
3	Reflect on how the thinking and feeling of individuals outside the unit contribute to your sensemaking	LO2
4	Analyse how personal beliefs, dispositions, experiences and attitudes evolve through sensemaking	LO2

How your final result is determined

To pass this unit, you need to demonstrate your attainment of each of the Intended Learning Outcomes, achieve a final unit grade of 50% or greater, and pass any hurdle tasks.

Submission of assignments

Where practicable, assignments should be submitted to an assignment submission folder in MYLO. You must submit assignments by the due date or receive a penalty (unless an extension of time has been approved by the Unit Coordinator). Students submitting any assignment in hard copy, or because of a practicum finalisation, must attach a student cover sheet and signed declaration for the submission to be accepted for marking.

Academic integrity

Academic integrity is about acting responsibly, honestly, ethically, and collegially when using, producing, and communicating information with other students and staff members.

In written work, you must correctly reference the work of others to maintain academic integrity. To find out the referencing style for this unit, see the assessment information in the MyLO site, or contact your teaching staff. For more detail about Academic Integrity, see Important Guidelines & Support.

Requests for extensions

If you are unable to submit an assessment task by the due date, you should apply for an extension.

A request for an extension should first be discussed with your Unit Coordinator or teaching support team where possible. A request for an extension must be submitted by the assessment due date, except where you can provide evidence it was not possible to do so. Typically, an application for an extension will be supported by documentary evidence: however, where it is not possible for you to provide evidence please contact your Unit Coordinator.

The Unit Coordinator must notify you of the outcome of an extension request within 3 working days of receiving the request.

Late penalties

Assignments submitted after the deadline will receive a late penalty of 5% of the original available mark for each calendar day (or part day) that the assignment is late. Late submissions will not be accepted more than 10 calendar days after the due date, or after assignments have been returned to other students on a scheduled date, whichever occurs first. Further information on Late Penalties can be found on the Assessments and Results Procedure.

Review of results and appeals

You are entitled to ask for a review of the marking and grading of your assessment task if there is an irregularity in the marking standards or an error in the process for determining the outcome of an assessment. Details on how to request a review of a mark for an assignment are outlined in the Review and Appeal of Academic Decisions Procedure.

Required Resources

Required reading materials

This unit does not have a prescribed text. Instead, each week students are required to read a 1 or 2 journal articles that correspond to each topic in the Unit Schedule and are available via the unit Reading List.

Recommended reading materials

Recommended readings will be made available in the content folders in MyLO and via the unit Reading List.

Other required resources

In addition to the texts/software recommended above, you are also expected to be familiar with the key academic journals in the discipline from which useful insights may be derived. In particular, you are encouraged to review regularly the relevant papers that are published in:
• Academy of Management Perspectives
• Academy of Management Journal
• Academy of Management Review
• Administrative Science Quarterly
• Annual Review of Psychology
• Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources
• California Management Review
• Harvard Business Review
• Human Relations
• Journal of Applied Psychology
• Journal of Management
• Journal of Managerial Psychology
• Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
• Journal of Organisational Behaviour Management
• Journal of Organizational Behaviour
• Journal of Personality & Social Psychology
• Journal of Management and Organisation
• Leadership
• MIT Sloan Management Review
• Organizational Dynamics
• The Journal of Business Ethics
• The Leadership Quarterly