- Teacher: Tham Wan Yee
Leadership Principles (LEA201)
Why do we need leaders? What do they do? Are they born or made? This unit will help students to find answers to these questions in the light of contemporary leadership theory and a Christian worldview. We will explore theory on leadership skills, traits, and behaviors and consider the important question of what makes a leader great or...what would make you a great leader.
Unit Content
Curriculum Objective
This course unit provides the student with an understanding of the principles of leadership.
Outcomes
Students should be able to:
- Identify personal values, own leadership philosophy, and develop self-awareness to start the continual process of leadership development.
- Develop and build team communication, and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrate the ability to explain and critically evaluate different theories and approaches to leadership
- Demonstrate and examine leadership issues pertaining to ethics and the dark side of leadership
- Identify, describe and distinguish the key leadership theories and their applications in an organizational setting.
Subject Content
- The concepts of mission and vision
- The leader’s toolbox: time management, conflict management, priority setting, and organizational communication
- Concepts of love, humility, and forgiveness in relation to Christian leadership
- Communication skills as applied to leadership
- Principles of discipleship
- The Jesus model
- Personal learning and disclosure in relation to leadership style
- Teacher: Tham Wan Yee
Advanced Leadership and Decision Making (LEA301)
Organizations are groups of people working together for a purpose. Despite the pervasiveness of organizations in our modern society, effective group behavior does not always come naturally. In fact, many goals are never achieved due to poor group dynamics rather than a lack of skills, vision or strategy. This unit will help students to develop an understanding of how an organization can encourage effective, efficient, social and ethical behavior; how leadership styles, organizational structure and value systems influence behavior and how ultimately the group dynamics impact the effectiveness of the organization in the pursuit of its purpose.
Unit Content
Curriculum Objective
This unit is a study of the dynamics of individual and group behavior and will encourage students to develop an understanding of how an organization can encourage effective social and ethical behavior. It covers traditional theoretical and recent developments arising out of psychology and sociology, different organization structures, value systems and leadership styles that influences behavior.
Outcomes
Students should be able to:
- Compare and assess current theories and concepts of individual, dyadic, and group behavior in organizations, and discuss and explain appropriate organizational leadership behaviors for increasing organizational effectiveness;
- Compare and assess current theories of individual and group decision making within organizations, and discuss and explain how organizational leaders’ decision-making interacts with organizational structure and culture in facilitating change;
- Describe and evaluate organizational communication theories, including dyadic, group, formal and informal communication, and discuss and explain the attributes and impacts of communication within organizations including in leader-member exchange and mass communication contexts;
- Describe Australian corporate structures, including within churches and NFP organizations, and critically assess leadership models adopted for churches and NFP organizations;
- Explain and appraise issues of power and responsibility in churches and NFP organizations, incorporating Christian and other perspectives;
- Discuss and explain the role of leadership in shaping organizational responses to changing operating environments.
Subject Content
- Historical perspectives on the philosophy of work
- Behavioral aspects of organizational structure and design
- The organization and the individual
- Building and growing effective teams
- Power and organizational politics
- Leadership styles and organizational behavior
- Organizational culture and change
- Common issues: stress, burn-out, conflict and cultural differences