Leadership

Code:

2EAE21

Acronym:

L

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management Studies

Instance: 2016/2017 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Economics and Business Administration

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EAE	60	Syllabus - 2015	2	-	3,5	27	94,5

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

- to provide elements for a critical understanding of leadership that questions the existing proposals, their origins and motivations;
- to analyse leadership beyond the "heoric" figure of leaders, as presented by mainstream approaches in the leadership industry that tend to divide between leaders and followers;
- to analyse the centrality of power in the study of leadership.

Learning outcomes and competences

- an inclusive, eclectic, integrated and contextually aware understanding of leadership, thus challenging the hegemonic conceptualizations that have dominated this field;
- an understanding of how leadership practices may enhance interactions between people at work;
- a self-diagnosis and a personal reflection around own and others' experiences of leading and being led.

Working method

Presencial

Program

I - CLASSIC AND TRADITIONAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Leadership and management
2. Traits 
3. Styles
4. Contingencies
5. Charismatic and transformational leadership

II - CONTEMPORARY AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
6. The leadership context: implicit leadership, social identity, social construction
7. Followership, psychoanalytic approach, relational leadership
8. Distributed leadership
9. Leadership and power
10. Emerging themes: ethics and authenticity; gender and leadership; leadership of teams; leading for creativity and innovation; leadership without leaders

Mandatory literature

Peter Northouse; Leadership: Theory and Practice, Sage, 2007

Comments from the literature

The full bibliographic list will be provided to students in the first lecture.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Presentation of theoretical elements, case analyses, and individual and group level exercises.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	70,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

IN DISTRIBUTED ASSESSMENT: Exam (70%) + Individual paper (30%)

(alternatively, by final exam = 100%)

Classification improvement

By final exam only.