LB5215 - Strategy and Leadership
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2012 |
| 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 organisational 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 organisations;
- 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 8 | |
| Census Date 16-Aug-2012 | |
| Face to face teaching 10-Aug-2012 to 02-Sep-2012 (Fri 10/8 6pm-9pm, Sat 11/8 & Sun 12/8 9am-5pm AND Fri 31/8 6pm-9pm, Sat 1/9 & Sun 2/9 9am-5pm) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
| Lecturer: | Assoc. Professor John Hamilton. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster presentation and reflective journal (25%); review - journal paper or case study (25%). |
| Cairns, Block, Study Period 8 | |
| Census Date 16-Aug-2012 | |
| Face to face teaching 24-Aug-2012 to 16-Sep-2012 (Fri 24/8, 6pm-9pm, Sat 25/8 & Sun 26/8 9am-5pm AND Fri 14/9, 6pm-9pm, Sat 15/9 & Sun 16/9 9am-5pm) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
| Lecturer: | Dr Boaz Bernstein. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster presentation and reflective journal (25%); review - journal paper or case study (25%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 22-Mar-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster presentation and reflective journal (25%); review - journal paper or case study (25%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 52 | |
| Census Date 09-Aug-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster presentation and reflective journal (25%); review - journal paper or case study (25%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 15-Nov-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster presentation and reflective journal (25%); review - journal paper or case study (25%). |
| JCU Singapore, Block, Study Period 54 | |
| Census Date 15-Mar-2012 | |
| Face to face teaching 04-Feb-2012 to 19-Feb-2012 (Teaching over 3 weekends with exam scheduled on another weekend.) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster presentation and reflective journal (25%); review - journal paper or case study (25%). |
| JCU Singapore, Block, Study Period 57 | |
| Census Date 13-Dec-2012 | |
| Face to face teaching 01-Oct-2012 to 06-Jan-2013 (Teaching over 3 weekends with exam scheduled on another weekend.) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster presentation and reflective journal (25%); review - journal paper or case study (25%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22 | |
| Census Date 09-Aug-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster presentation and reflective journal (25%); review - journal paper or case study (25%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23 | |
| Census Date 06-Dec-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster presentation and reflective journal (25%); review - journal paper or case study (25%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 21 | |
| Census Date 12-Apr-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster presentation and reflective journal (25%); review - journal paper or case study (25%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Block, Study Period 27 | |
| Census Date 13-Dec-2012 | |
| Face to face teaching (Teaching 5,6,7,13,14, October with exam weekend 27/28 Oct) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Darren Lee-Ross |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); poster presentation and reflective journal (25%); review - journal paper or case study (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.