Leadership

Code:

2EAE21

Acronym:

L

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management Studies

Instance: 2020/2021 - 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

Portuguese

Objectives

- to contribute to a critical understanding of leadership;
- to analyse the centrality of power in the study of leadership;
- to contribute to develop a reflexive attitude towards leadership, in particular in organizational settings.

Learning outcomes and competences

- an understanding of leadership that challenges the reductionist conceptualizations of mainstream approaches;
- thinking leadership beyond leaders and heroic, grandiose views;
- to understand the paradoxical, mundane nature of leadership;
- a self-diagnosis and a personal reflection around own and others' experiences of leading and being led.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Leadership and leaders: modes of thinking.

2. Mainstream proposals centred on leaders: classical perspectives and the 'new leadership'.

3. Alternative proposals of analysis: followership, gender and leadership, negative and destructive leadership, distributed leadership, relational leadership, leadership as practice.

4. Critical approach: leadership and dialectical power relations.

5. Successes, failures and tragedies of leadership: notable cases in politics, religion, military, sports and management domains.

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 and case analyses.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	65,00
Trabalho escrito	35,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	20,00
Frequência das aulas	21,00
Trabalho escrito	15,00
Total:	56,00

Eligibility for exams

Attendance of at least 3/4 of lectures.

Calculation formula of final grade

a) DISTRIBUTED ASSESSMENT (in época normal only):

• Exam 65% + Individual paper 35% 

• A minimum mark of 7 is required in the exam.

• Approval is granted when the average mark is 9,5 or higher.

b) FINAL EXAM (in época de recurso only): 100%.

Classification improvement

By final exam at época de recurso.