Leadership

Code:

2EAE21

Acronym:

L

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management Studies

Instance: 2021/2022 - 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	27	Syllabus - 2015	2	-	3,5	27	94,5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

It is often assumed that "more effective leadership" is key to improve organizational performance. Yet, it is also increasingly evident that traditional understandings of what constitutes leadership - heroic and transformational models - have not lived up to their promise. This course aims to contribute to re-think leadership by analysing comparatively the heroic, post-heroic and critical approaches; exploring the centrality of power in the study of leadership; and developing 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.

4. Critical approach: leadership and dialectical power relations.

5. Leadership and organizational change.

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

Lectures for presentation of theoretical elements.
Case analysis and discussion.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
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

Época normal: only DISTRIBUTED ASSESSMENT 
  Individual assignments (50%) + Exam (50%)
  A minimum mark of 7 is required in the exam
  Approval is granted when the average mark is 9,5 or higher

Época de recurso: only FINAL EXAM
  Exam (100%)

Classification improvement

By final exam at época de recurso.