Leading and Visioning

Students of this unit acquire an understanding and appreciation of contemporary models of leadership. The skills, attributes, and roles of leaders in business contexts are explored along with the impact that ethics, power and influence necessarily have on styles of leadership. Students study the nature of visioning and leading in organisational contexts; how to develop and strategically implement an organisation's vision, mission and operational plan; how to plan strategically; and how to manage people and organisations so as to instil a culture of cooperation, responsiveness, high performance, innovation and continual improvement.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify organisational characteristics, attributes and individual, group and leader behaviours associated with organisational success
• Analyse, evaluate, modify and generate leader behaviours
• Demonstrate vision and strategic leadership behaviours

Content Areas

• Visioning and Values
• Leading with a Shared Vision
• Describing Cultures of Achievement
• Identifying Organisational Success
• Linking Success with Leader Behaviours and Strategies
• Using Power, Influence and Politics
• Managing Communication Systems
• Learning from Leadership Theories
• Measuring Leader Effectiveness
• Modifying Leader Behaviours
• Responding to Change and Improving
• Maintaining Equilibrium in Dynamic Environment

Unit Duration and Workload

This unit involves a total of 36 hours of face to face delivery of self directed study including educator contact in flexible delivery modes, generating a further 54 hours of self-study per unit including research and related study activities, including assessment. This translates to 7.5 hours per week for the unit.