Soft Skills: Leadership and Team Management

Code:

CTLGE01

Acronym:

CTLGE01

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Personal Development

Instance: 2014/2015 - 1S (of 24-10-2014 to 28-11-2014)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Orientation and Integration Office
Course/CS Responsible:	Soft Skills: Leadership and Team Management

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CTLGE	22	Syllabus	1	-	1,5	10	40,5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

 

Learning outcomes and competences

Adapt leadership  strategies and team motivation according to:

     nature, structure, size and motivation of the team

      role to play

     activity sector
     personal motivations of employees

     personal characteristics of managers

     history and future of the organization

Working method

B-learning

Program

The concept of leadership and its role within the project team;
• Trait Theory vs Developmental theories on the emergence of leaders (personal, educational and contextual factors);
• Different styles of leadership;
• The main characteristics and behaviors of working teams;
• The different motivational patterns of work teams;
• The inevitability of conflict and role in organizational dynamics;
• The different strategies of conflict resolution and the impact of choices made;
• Technical (communication) that allow you to organize, encourage and motivate a team;
• Feedback: the role of praise and criticism in team management;

Mandatory literature

Lourenço, P.R; Liderança e eficácia: uma relação revisitada, Psychologica, 23, 119-130., 2000
Idalberto Chiavenato; Recursos Humanos O Capital Humano das Organizações, Elsevier - Campus, 2009. ISBN: 9788535233186
Rego, A.; Liderança nas organizações: teoria e prática, Universidade de Aveiro, 1998
Miguel Pina e Cunha, Arménio Rego; Liderar, Publicações Dom Quixote, 2007. ISBN: 9789722038652
Miguel Pina e Cunha, Arménio Rego; A Essência da Liderança Mudança - Resultados - Integridade, Editora RH, 2003. ISBN: 9789728853013
Rego, Arménio; Cunha, Miguel Pina; Liderança humanizada, IEFP Dirigir : revista para chefias (pp41 - 45), 2012

Complementary Bibliography

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; trad. Joana Morais Varela; com aguarelas do autor; O principezinho. ISBN: 978-972-23-2829-6
Dreyfus, C; Psicoterapia de grupo, Verbo, 1980
Estanqueiro, A.; Saber lidar com as pessoas, Presença, 1993
Almeida, F. N; Psicologia para gestores – Comportamentos de sucesso nas organizações., McGraw-Hill, 1995
Fachada, Odete; Psicologia das relações interpessoais, Edições Rumo, Lda, 2005

Teaching methods and learning activities

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	70,00
Trabalho de campo	30,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

 

Calculation formula of final grade

• Timeliness (10%)
• Participation and involvement (50%)
• Autonomous work: resolution of a hypothetical  problem presented in a case study (40%)