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Level 5: Leadership and Managing Teams
Introduction
Examines the key skills and qualities of leaders, and the underlying principles of management. It considers different leadership styles, and explores how these leadership styles affect team building and its role within modern organisations.
Module Description
This module aims to:
- Evaluate the relationships among an organisation's culture, its leadership, and its employees
- Examine the concept of organisational culture
- Consider the role of the leader as decision-maker and influencer
- Evaluate contemporary models of leadership
- Examine the leader's role in change management
- Consider team building and its role in modern organisations
- Evaluate the importance of managing people and teams
Module Content
- Leadership styles
- Influence of culture on leadership style and organisational performance
- Team building and management
- A leader or a manager?
- Group decision making methods
- Approaches to leadership for situational effectiveness
- Application of leadership theories to actual leaders
- Employee empowerment and performance
- Theories of motivation and work behaviour
- Change management, the role of the leader and the team
- Reducing change resistance
