Dr Emma Soane NAB 4.02 and Dr Hayley German NAB 4.23

This course is compulsory on the BSc in Management. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is not available to General Course students.

This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills and analytical capabilities needed to exercise leadership in organisations. It explores several facets of leadership and considers how leadership develops. The emphasis will be on application of theory, comparing and contrasting approaches to leadership, and self-reflection. The group essay provides the opportunity for students to not only exercise leadership within their group but also apply the theories to a real-life leadership situation.

The course examines: leadership and management; trait, behavioural and contingency theories of leadership; individual differences in leadership; the dynamics between leaders and their followers; transformational and transactional forms of leadership; team leadership and co-leadership; leadership communication; leadership development; the future of leadership.

10 hours of lectures and 9 hours of classes in the LT. 1 hour of lectures and 1 hour of classes in the ST.

The Summer Term teaching will be review sessions.

Formative assessment will be a mock exam during the Lent Term.

A full reading list will be provided at the beginning of the term. The main text is:

Northouse, P. (2009). Leadership. Theory and Practice (5th ed.) Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Additional readings are:

Daft, R. (2010). The Leadership Experience (5rd ed.). Mason, OH: Thomson/South-Western.

Goffee, R. and Jones, G. (2006). Why Should Anyone Be Led By You? Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Yukl, G. A. (2009). Leadership in Organizations. (7th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Exam (70%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.
Essay (25%, 2000 words) and other (5%) in March.

Assessment will be 25% group essay (2000 words), 5% Peer Evaluation of individual contribution to the group essay, and 70% Summer Term exam (2 hours).