LB5215 - Strategy and Leadership
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | School of Business |
Strategy and Leadership is an advanced introduction to the fundamental issues, emerging challenges and implications of strategy and leadership in organisations. This subject is positioned in the inner core of the MBA. As such, it plays a key role in underpinning a number of important areas including human resources, marketing, tourism and entrepreneurship. Successful leaders must have the ability to anticipate and envision. They also need the capacity to communicate, initiate change, set objectives and work with others to implement strategically aligned aims and objectives. This subject integrates these areas to study the development of strategy and leadership in contemporary organisations.
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an advanced knowledge of leadership theory and organizational behaviour as they relate to contemporary firms;
- Develop strategic thinking, strategy formation and strategic change;
- Develop leadership skills relevant to managing people processes and performance in organizations;
- Develop strategic leadership skills relevant to application.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to appraise information critically;
- The ability to think laterally and be original;
- The ability to conceptualise problems;
- The potential to lead and contribute to projects effectively and efficiently;
- The ability to make constructive contributions to project teams or collegial activities.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | LB5208 LB5206 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Block, Study Period 9 | |
| Census Date 06-Oct-2011 | |
| Non-standard start/end 02-Sep-2011 to 18-Nov-2011 | |
| Face to face teaching 02-Sep-2011 to 18-Sep-2011 (Fri 2/9 6pm-9pm, Sat 3/9 & Sun 4/9 9am-5pm AND Fri 16/9 6pm-9pm, Sat 17/9 & Sun 18/9 9am-5pm) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
| Lecturer: | Mr Peter Evans. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster or reflective journal (25%); journal paper review or group presentation (25%). |
| Cairns, Block, Study Period 8 | |
| Census Date 18-Aug-2011 | |
| Face to face teaching 26-Aug-2011 to 11-Sep-2011 (Fri 26/8, 6pm-9pm, Sat 27/8 & Sun 28/8 9am-5pm AND Fri 9/9, 6pm-9pm, Sat 10/9 & Sun 11/9 9am-5pm) | |
| Coord/Lect: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster or reflective journal (25%); journal paper review or group presentation (25%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 54 | |
| Census Date 17-Mar-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster or reflective journal (25%); journal paper review or group presentation (25%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster or reflective journal (25%); journal paper review or group presentation (25%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 52 | |
| Census Date 21-Jul-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster or reflective journal (25%); journal paper review or group presentation (25%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 17-Nov-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster or reflective journal (25%); journal paper review or group presentation (25%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 21 | |
| Census Date 14-Apr-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster or reflective journal (25%); journal paper review or group presentation (25%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22 | |
| Census Date 11-Aug-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster or reflective journal (25%); journal paper review or group presentation (25%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23 | |
| Census Date 08-Dec-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster or reflective journal (25%); journal paper review or group presentation (25%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 25 | |
| Census Date 23-Jun-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster or reflective journal (25%); journal paper review or group presentation (25%). |
Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.