Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Leading Effective Teams and Organisations
Credit Points: 12.00
Course Coordinator: Dr Carol Janson Bond
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925
Course Coordinator Email: carol.bond@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: 080.09.065
Course Coordinator Availability: On appointment
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None
Course Description
This course focuses on leadership dynamics at the dyadic, team, and organisational levels. You will learn how to foster a team dynamic of intercultural safety and creative innovation to embody adaptive organisations. Using evidence-based tools and strategies, you will learn how to create and lead through productive conflicts to create high-performing teams and organisations. This course features a partnership with an industry champion for a truly authentic experience.
This course incorporates Work Integrated Learning (WIL) for a truly authentic and applied experience.
Key to being able to lead effective teams and organisations is an awareness of how cultural and diversity frameworks can be used to promote a positive, inclusive & productive organisational environment. Adaptive, agile and collaborative leadership skills will be foregrounded as a way to lead ethically through internal and external professional networks.
This course is a component of the Leadership and Strategy major and minor.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
Ethical Global Citizens (1A, 1B, 1C), Connected (2A, 2B), Adaptive (3A), Digitally Adept (4)
If you are taking this course as part of a major, this course will complement the learning outcomes you are developing in your program.
CLO1 – Diagnose organisational challenges at a range of organisational levels to explore leadership alternatives in meeting those challenges.
CLO2 – Critically analyse and develop cultural and diversity frameworks actionable by business leaders to design inclusion strategies and create a positive commercial environment.
CLO3 – Work with peers and a WiIL partner on a contemporary organisational leadership challenge
CLO4 – Design an adaptive leadership approach using your collaboration skills to contribute to an organisational change strategy for specific commercial environments.
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, case studies, 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: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/my-course/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
The assessment tasks, their weighting, and the course learning outcomes to which they are aligned are as follows.
Assessment Task 1 – 20%
Linked CLOs: 1, 3
Assessment Task 2 – 50%
Linked CLOs: 3, 4
Assessment Task 3 – 30%
Linked CLOs: 2, 4
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.
If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.
Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures, and instructions.