MIS41190 Leadership: A Phenomenological Approach

Academic Year 2017/2018

The aim of the module is to develop a more sophisticated understanding of leadership as a concept, and an appreciation for a range of tangible leadership practices with which you might begin to experiment in your own work and personal contexts.

We begin by tackling some of the misleading leadership mythology that abounds in the popular management literature, with a view to developing a more grounded and realistic perspective on the practice of leadership, its importance, and its limits.

We go on to examine the process by which one might become a more accomplished leader/manager, emphasising the importance of experience, engagement, intuition, and emotional awareness. We argue for a view of leadership/management that is concerned with the facilitation of an ongoing collective learning process.

Throughout, we will draw upon a phenomenological tradition of thought as a means of developing a distinctive approach to thinking about, and doing, leadership.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

On completing this module students should be able to:

- Critically assess the concept of leadership, the broader context within which specific conceptions of leadership have developed, and the truth effects of popular leadership discourses.

- Draw on phenomenological ideas around education, skill, disclosedness, affect, and dialogic forms of engagement to articulate an alternative conception of leadership practice.

- Demonstrate an ability to use these phenomenological traditions of thought to critically reflect upon one’s own leadership practices and those of others.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24
Specified Learning Activities

180
Total

204
 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.



 
Description % of Final Grade Timing
Continuous Assessment: Individual and/or group work

100

 Unspecified

Compensation

This module is not passable by compensation

Remediation

Name Role
Ms Fiona Lynch Tutor