Indicative Lecture Programme
Lecture 1: Orientation to the Module and to Leading Change
This opening session will orient students to the module and examine the roles of leaders and managers, before looking at other key concepts in leadership of relevance to organisational change. There will be opportunities for discussion, groupwork and developing learners’ own analysis and perspectives on leadership for the module assignment.
Lecture 2: Charisma, Transformation and Organisational Culture
The second session considers leadership and charisma, the Full Range Leadership Model and Transformational Leadership, and Leadership and Culture in organisations. There will be opportunities for discussion, groupwork and developing learners’ own analysis and perspectives on leadership for the module assignment.
Lecture 3: Leading Change, Strategy, and Digital Transformation
In this session, models of organisational change will be considered, along with leadership and strategy, plus the contemporary area of digital transformation and leadership’s role in it. There will be opportunities for discussion, groupwork and developing learners’ own analysis and perspectives on leadership for the module assignment.
Lecture 4: Gender, Diversity, Power and Resistance in Leading Change
In this penultimate session attention turns towards questions of gender, diversity, power, and resistance, as examples of more critical, sensitive areas of leadership, but ones with great innovative potential for change efforts. There will be opportunities for discussion, groupwork and developing learners’ own analysis and perspectives on leadership for the module assignment.
Lecture 5: Leadership Development, Ethics, Toxicity and Evaluation
The focus of this final session is on leadership learning and development, plus debates in the ethics of leadership, particularly the issues of toxic, bad or destructive leadership which can hamper change efforts. If time permits, the issue of evaluation will be included as part of this final session. There will be opportunities for discussion, groupwork and developing learners’ own analysis and perspectives on leadership for the module assignment.