Soft Skills: Leadership and Team Management

Code:

CTLGE01

Acronym:

CTLGE01

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Personal Development

Instance: 2016/2017 - 1S

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	25	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

Presencial

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
Miguel Pina e Cunha, Arménio Rego; Liderança - A Virtude Está no Meio, Actual Editora, 2011. ISBN: 9789896940249

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
Alexandre Rangel; O Que Podemos Aprender Com os Gansos: Lições de cooperação, liderança e motivação, Casa das Letras, 2006

Teaching methods and learning activities

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	60,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	40,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

 

Calculation formula of final grade

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