NEW PROFESSIONAL (6-WEEK) EVENING COURSE

Ten well led people will easily out perform thirty who are badly led. The route to management excellence is to get people not only to do things willingly, but to do them whilst giving the very peak of their performance. This requires leadership skills. An inspired and motivated workforce is essential for any business that wants to outperform the competition. What kind of leadership do people respond to? People work for a manager they do their best for a leader. How can you improve the quality of leadership in your business?

This course will introduce you to a range of skills that make people passionate about their jobs and skills, which win their commitment and have a positive effect on motivation and team performance.

The Nature of Leadership:
Definitions of leadership, leadership effectiveness, major research approaches, conceptualising leadership, comparing leadership theories.

Nature of Managerial Work:
Activity patterns of managerial work, content of managerial work, theory of demands, constraints, choices, research on situational determinants, the changing nature of managerial work, managerial discretion, descriptive research, application for managers.

Perspectives on Effective Leadership Behaviour:
Ohio state leadership studies, Michigan leadership studies, limitations of survey research, experiments on task and relations behaviour, research using critical incidents, high leader, leadership behaviour taxonomies, specific task behaviours, specific relations behaviours, evaluating the behaviour approach.

Participative Leadership, Delegation & Empowerment:
Nature of participative leadership, consequences of participation, research on effects of participative leadership, normative decision model, guidelines for participative research, delegation, guidelines for delegating, empowerment.

Dyadic Role Making Theories:
Leader member exchange theory, leader attributions about subordinates, follower attributions and implicit theories, follower contributions to effective leadership, self management, integrating leader and follower roles.

Power and Influence:
Conceptions of power and authority, power types and sources, acquiring and losing power, consequences of position and personal power, types of influence behaviour, power and influence behaviour, research on influence tactics.

Managerial Traits and Skills:
Nature of traits and skills, early research on leader traits and skills, major research programmes of research on leader traits, managerial traits and effectiveness, managerial skills and effectiveness, other relevant competencies, situational relevance of skills, evaluation of trait research, application guidelines.

Contingency Theories of Effective Leadership:
LPC Contingency model, path goal theory of leadership, leadership substitute’s theory, the multiple linkage model, cognitive resources theory, evaluation of contingency theories, application guidelines.

Charismatic & Transformational Leadership:
Early theories, attribution theory of charismatic leadership, self concept theory of charismatic leadership, other conceptions of charisma; consequences of charismatic leadership, transformational leadership, research on theories; transformational versus charismatic leadership, evaluation of theories, guidelines for transformational leadership.

Leading Change in Organisations:
Change processes, different types of organisational change, influencing organisational culture, developing a vision, implementing change, increasing innovation and learning.

Leadership in Teams & Decision Groups:
Nature of teams, functional teams, cross functional teams, self managed work teams, self defining teams, virtual teams, procedures for facilitating team learning, guidelines for team building, decision making in groups, leadership functions in meetings, guidelines for leading meetings

Strategic Leadership:
Constraints on executive discretion, attributions about Chief Executives, research on effects of leadership succession, evolutionary change and strategic leadership, political power and strategic leadership, executive tenure and strategic leadership, executive teams, competing values in strategic leadership, monitoring the environment, formulating strategy.

Developing Leadership Skills:
Leadership training programmes, designing effective training, techniques for leadership training, learning from experience, development activities, self-help activities, facilitating conditions for leadership development, systems perspective on leadership development.

Ethical Leadership and Diversity:
Ethical Leadership, gender and leadership, leadership in different cultures, managing diversity.

Core Text: Leadership in Organisations – Gary Yuki (Prentice Hall)