Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Responsible Leadership and Enterprise

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
BUSM2729	City Campus	Undergraduate	630H Management	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2025

Course Coordinator: Dr Zaid Alqhaiwi

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 8944

Course Coordinator Email: zaid.alqhaiwi@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 80.09.45-24

Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None.

Course Description

In this course, you will be provided with comprehensive knowledge and insights into responsible leadership theories and practices within different enterprise contexts. The course places particular emphasis on responsible leadership in the digital era, encompassing authentic, adaptive, and culturally intelligent leadership skills and strategies to proactively respond to both opportunities and threats that arise in this dynamic environment. You will be equipped with the necessary abilities to navigate the technologically changing landscapes, with a focus on people, strategy, and innovation as fundamental elements of driving responsible leadership in diverse enterprise contexts.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

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On successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

CLO1: Recognise authentic, adaptive, and culturally intelligent leadership competencies in driving technological changes in organisational settings CLO2: Discuss responsible leadership's impact on enterprise in the digital era, focusing on people, cultural intelligence, indigenous perspectives, and innovation. CLO3: Apply leadership skills that enable organisations to be more responsible, learning-focused, and knowledge-driven enterprises in the digital era. CLO4: Critically and empathetically evaluate complex strategies, processes, and issues relating to future leadership where humans and technologies co-exist CLO5: Collaborate with teams to address organisational leadership issues using innovative solutions

Overview of Learning Activities

This course is delivered as a blend of face-to-face activities and online learning. Learning will be supported through in-class and online activities such as: personal development activities; guest speakers/expert commentators; prescribed readings; practical tasks; seeking and providing peer feedback; and reflective praxis.

Overview of Learning Resources

Various learning resources are available online through MyRMIT Studies/Canvas. The lecture notes and workshop notes are posted on Canvas.

RMIT Library provides extensive resources, services and study spaces. All RMIT students have access to scholarly resources including course related material, books, e-books, journals and databases.

Contact: Ask the Library for assistance and information on Library resources and services: http://www.rmit.edu.au/library.

Study support is available for assistance with assignment preparation, academic writing, information literacy, referencing, maths and study skills.

Additional resources and/or sources to assist your learning will be identified by your course coordinator and will be made available to you as required during the teaching period. 

Overview of Assessment

Assessment Task 1: 20% 

Linked CLOs: 1, 2

Assessment Task 2: 40% 

Linked CLOs: 2, 3, 4, 6

Assessment Task 3: 40% 

Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 5

Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or in online forums through individual and group feedback on progress, outcomes and approaches, and by individual consultation.