Leading: Human Resource Management and Leadership

In this specialisation you will strengthen your capability to effectively lead your people and organisation in an increasingly competitive and complex work environment. Through four themed courses, you will learn how to motivate by creating meaning at work and to harness the power of conflict, diversity and teamwork to innovate and increase productivity. You will strengthen your leadership skills and your capacity to adapt and align your organisation. Learning from psychology, sociology and organisation science will help you inspire, influence and drive change across your organisation so that you can position yourself and your organisation to taking full advantage of emerging opportunities.

This involves learning how to: Apply key principles of organisational leadership to develop and evaluate strategies for attracting, motivating and resourcing talent; Take a strategic perspective in designing and aligning competitive, sustainable organisations; Meeting the challenge of interruptive complexities through agile shifts between different leadership styles; Creating vision and meaning to drive change and influence.

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In each module, you will review how organisational science can help address real-life leadership and organisational challenges. Based on these reviews, you will learn how to develop and evaluate strategies that can help ensure you, your people and your organisation can adapt, compete and succeed.

 

COURSE 1

Organisational design: Know your organisation

Commitment: 6 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week

Subtitles: English

About the Course

When you become responsible for leading an organisation as a whole, your most important leadership challenge will be enabling your organisation to deliver on its strategy, whilst also ensuring that it remains sufficiently agile. This requires sign

 

COURSE 2

Organisational behaviour: Know your people

Commitment: 6 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week

Subtitles: English

About the Course

As you move through an increasingly globalised, competitive business environment, it's your ability to manage and lead people in a flatter, more team-driven context that is the key to organisational success. This course teaches you how to motivate 

 

COURSE 3

Adapt your leadership style

Commitmen: 6 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week

Subtitles: English

About the Course

The popular business press routinely romanticises the idea of the heroic business leader, who boldly and with great vision takes his or her company forward in brave new strategic directions and through dramatic organisational transformations. But

 

COURSE 4

Visionary leadership, identity & motivation: Become a meaning maker

Starts 11/19/18

Commitment: 6 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week

Subtitles: English

About the Course

Faced with complex and ambiguous environments, how do leaders envision the future and instill their vision in a way that conveys its meaningfulness and drives change and innovation? This course addresses this challenge using the lenses of leadership, vision and identity. Drawing on a wide body of literature , the course explores how students, as leaders, can create a compelling vision and understand how to communicate with impact and meaning. Students will develop awareness of brand identity and the role of brand in clarifying and reinforcing the vision, both within the organisation, and for partners and customers. Special attention will be given to the role of identity and making messages meaningful. In exploring these concepts, the course also explores creating meaning through neuroscience by looking at the role of the brain in processing meaning. A physiological approach in delivering meaning through voice and body language offers learners different techniques to project authenticity in delivering meaning.

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Edward Wray-Bliss

Associate Professor

Rebecca Mitchell

Professor of Management

Jaco Lok

Professor of Strategy

Richard Claydon

PhD in Management (MGSM)

Abas Mirzaei

Dr

Arabella MacPherson

Director

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