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Leadership and Change Management

Objectives

'When organizations are overmanaged but underled they eventually lose any sense of spirit and purpose' - Bolman and Deal, 1997, Reframing Organizations.

This course will focus on the relationship between organizations and change. Leadership emerges as a driver of change because the work of a leader is to constantly look forward and provide the necessary changes for the organization. The leader’s role as a change agent will be a focus of the course. In addition, various models of change will be introduced and explored. Understanding various methods of bringing about change will be discussed during classes.

General characterization

Code

2388

Credits

3.5

Responsible teacher

Filipa Castanheira

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

English

Prerequisites

n/a 


Bibliography

Handbooks: (You may pick selected chapters from one of the following handbooks)

Northouse, P. (2010). Leadership. Theory and Practice (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Yukl, G. (2013). Leadership in Organizations (Global Edition, 8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Person Education.

Specific readings (papers and case studies) are listed in the course outline.

Teaching method

A variety of teaching and learning methods will be used in this course. Every session will have lectures, educational videos, paper and case study discussions by students.

Evaluation method

A) 'What to ask the person in the mirror ?' 1. Individual report: 20%

B) 'Bad leadership' 1. Group presentation: 35%

C) Final exam: 45%


Subject matter

  • 1st. Leadership and Management:

    Leadership and Management: Complementary roles

    Leader, followers, and leadership;

    Definition of Leadership: A review;

    A critical review of the trait approach to leadership

    Change in Organizations;

  • 2nd. Leadership: Adapting your style to the situation and power differential:

    A critical review of the behavioral and the situational approaches to leadership;

    The contingency leadership model;

    Transactional and Transformational Leadership;

    Power, Influence, Authority, and Leadership;

    Conformity to group norms and obedience to authority: Consequences for leadership.

  • 3rd. Leadership and followers:

    The incomplete leader and the Followership Theory;

    Self-Leadership;

    Toxic Leaders: Consequences for followership;

  • 4th. Change as it relates to people: Insights for Leadership:

    Culture about

    Intercultural sensitivity

    Global Leadership

  • Group presentations:

    Bad leadership - case studies.