MG463      Half Unit
CEMS Global Leadership

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

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Additional requisites:

It is assumed that the students have already taken introductory Organisational Behaviour or Global Business courses. The 2nd year Global Master’s in Management students are offered these prerequisites during their 1st year.

This course aims to answer the question, “How can I manage people, teams and organisations in international settings and from different cultures?” By answering this question, you will develop the skills to pursue an effective global career while keeping the core CEMS values of being responsible leaders contributing to a more open, sustainable, inclusive world. You will also develop an understanding of the challenges of interacting with and managing a diverse workforce in a complex environment characterised by distance-based interactions. Topics include: leader traits and attributes, cultural diversity, team leadership and virtual teams, power and influence, gender and the perception of leadership, organisational culture and change, leading amidst uncertainty and crises and global social responsibility.

15 hours of seminars and 15 hours of lectures in the Winter Term.

This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Winter Term.

In its Ethics Code, LSE upholds a commitment to intellectual freedom. This means we will protect the freedom of expression of our students and staff and the right to engage in healthy debate in the classroom.

Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the WT.

• Mendenhall, M.E., Reiche, B.S., Bird, A., & Osland, J.S. (2012). Defining the ”global” in global leadership. Journal of World Business, 47: 493-503.
• Schein, E. H. (2010). How leaders embed and transmit culture (Chapter 14, E-book pp.235-258). In Organizational Culture and Leadership. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons.
• Yukl, G. A. (2009). Leadership in Organizations: Global Edition. Pearson.

Course participation (15%)

Essay (50%)

Project (35%)

This component of assessment includes an element of group work.

For detailed assessment information, including all deadlines and timings, please see the relevant course Moodle page. Assessment timings will be available at the start of each term.