BE875-7-SP-CO:
Leading with Impact
2024/25
Essex Business School
Colchester Campus
Spring
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Monday 13 January 2025
Friday 21 March 2025
10
14 July 2023
Requisites for this module
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MBA N200JS The Essex MBA,
MBA N20EJD The Essex MBA,
MBA N20EJS The Essex MBA
Leadership is an important topic in the field of business and management studies both from a theoretical and a practical perspective. The overarching objective of this module is to develop students' understanding of leadership within organisations.
The module introduces students to a wide range of models, theories and topics within leadership and highlights central debates in the field. The module will cover traditional approaches to leadership, current issues in leadership and critical issues in leadership from a theoretical and a practical perspective. At the end of the module students will have developed a critical appreciation of leadership in modern organisations
The aims of this module are:
- Provide students with an understanding of theories on leadership.
- Introduce students to the practice of leadership.
- Enable students to critically analyse leadership.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the key elements of the various theories and concepts on leadership.
- Critically evaluate practices of leadership.
- Acquire in-depth understanding of organisational leadership.
- Apply techniques, models and frameworks to different types of businesses.
Skills for Your Professional Life (Transferable Skills)
By the end of this module, students will develop understanding of and skills in:
- Interpersonal skills including self-management and teamwork.
- Written communications skills.
- IT skills.
- Experience of the work environment.
- Commercial/business awareness.
- Numeracy skills.
- Presentation skills .
No additional information available.
This module will be delivered via:
- Two 3-hour sessions per day in Week 31.
The teaching and learning format is a mix of lectures, discussion, in- class exercises and group work and presentations. In addition, you are asked to read required readings before and/or during the module week as well as keep a reflexive journal.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Jayne Jennett, email: jayne.cottee@essex.ac.uk.
Jayne Jennett & Tony Holt
ebsmba@essex.ac.uk
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Dr Jose Eduardo Ibarra-Olivo
Henley Business School
Lecturer in International Business and Strategy
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
* Please note: due to differing publication schedules, items marked with an asterisk (*) base their information upon the previous academic year.
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