Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Morals, Values & Ethics in Leadership
Credit Points: 12.00
Course Coordinator: Dr Carol 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
Some assumed and prior knowledge is assumed for students enrolled in this course. Please contact the Course Coordinator for further information.
Course Description
This course examines the bright and dark sides of leadership as well as the ethical foundations and moral implications of different leadership styles. This course will help you understand how different cultures have varying systems of morals and values, as well as a range of ethical reasoning styles. You will begin to appreciate how these differing foundations of business decision-making can affect business-to-business relationships across countries and cultures. In addition, the course helps you examine the less romantic, and more destructive leadership styles such as Machiavellian, Narcissism, and Psychopathy. By the end of the course, you will have a clear understanding of how morals, values and ethics intertwine.
You will be able to critically evaluate how multi-cultural perspectives, Indigenous perspectives, and a diverse range of lifestyles intersect with morals, values and ethics. You will also be able to articulate how emerging technology can amplify or diminish certain voices or perspectives are heard, incorporated and understood in the organisational context. You will work individually and in teams to evaluate what kind of cultural and diversity frameworks can be adapted to create a positive commercial environment. This course builds on content delivered in BUSM2750.
This course is a component of the Leadership and Strategy major.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
Ethical Global Citizens (1A, 1B, 1C), Connected (2A, 2B), Adaptive (3B), Critically Engaged (6)
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 – Examine ethical theories and determine their implications for leadership individually and as part of a team.
CLO2 – Evaluate the cultural & ethnic foundations of morals and values while critically analysing their consequences.
CLO3 – Identify and analyse the ethical implications of emerging technologies on global commerce and appraise their ethical, social, environmental, and economic impacts.
CLO4 – Characterise the different facets of morals and values informing leadership and their implications for achieving triple bottom line goals.
CLO5 – Identify, analyse and use cultural diversity frameworks to design strategies to promote inclusion and create a positive commercial environment that meaningfully includes Indigenous peoples.
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, 2
Assessment Task 2 – 40%
Linked CLOs: 1, 3
Assessment Task 3 - 40%
Linked CLOs: 4, 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.
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.