Leadership

Code:

2EAE21

Acronym:

L

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management Studies

Instance: 2017/2018 - 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	47	Syllabus - 2015	2	-	3,5	27	94,5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- to provide elements for a critical understanding of leadership;
- to analyse the centrality of power in the study of leadership;
- to contribute to a reflexive attitude towards leadership in organizations.

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

1. Modes of thinking.
2. Modes of organizing.

PART A - THINKING LEADERSHIP
3. Perspectives on leadership: classic, symbolic, contemporary.
4. Critical leadership studies.
5. Paradoxes of leadership.

PART B - PROCESSES OF LEADERSHIP
6. Reflexive leadership.
7. Leadership and organizational culture.
8. Leading processes of change in organizations.

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 without final exam

Assessment Components

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

Calculation formula of final grade

a) DISTRIBUTED ASSESSMENT: Test 1 (30%) + Test 2 (30%) + Group assignment (40%)
- test 1 is about topics 1 to 5, and test 2 about topics 6 to 8;
- the group assignment involves delievering a written report and oral presentation and discussion;
- in each test and in the group assignment the minimum mark is 9/20.

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

Classification improvement

By final exam only.