This module contextualises contemporary leadership studies into faith-based contexts, exploring essential leadership skills and concepts such as personal effectiveness, servant leadership, ethical leadership, theological models of leadership, thought leadership and influence, leadership and sustainability, leadership and public life, building and leading teams, social entrepreneurship and reflective leadership, and conflict resolution and negotiation.
The module seeks to orient students to contemporary thinking in these aspects of the study of leadership, management and administration in professional contexts and public life, providing opportunities for them to reflect on this learning within their own religious contexts and consider how the values and practices of their faith communities and organisations align or fail to align with these wider professional insights. Seminar discussions will focus extensively on the practical application of the theoretical insight gained and the implications of faith-based motivations and practice for organisational leadership.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:
Engage contemporary leadership theory and its practical application and implications in professional contexts (assessed by Essay 1);
Reflect upon their professional insights into leadership theory theologically within or for a particular religious tradition and explore the implications of their professional awareness within or for a faith-based context (Essays 1 and 2);
Apply their learning to specific practical contexts and challenges in the workplace (Essay 2);
Demonstrate their understanding and application of practical and professional leadership skills in areas such as leading teams, leading sustainably, thought leadership, social entrepreneurship and conflict resolution and negotiation (Essay 2).
Assessment
36892-01 : Essay 1: 2500 word essay : Coursework (50%)
36892-02 : Essay 2: 2500 word essay : Coursework (50%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions
Assessment:
2 x essays of 2,500 words each (50% each)
At the discretion of the module convenor, students taking this module as a degree apprenticeship candidate can be invited instead to submit an alternative form of assessment, which can be EITHER:
a) A strategic business proposal of up to 4,000 words (to be delivered to a detailed specification to be provided); OR
b) A portfolio of evidence of professional development (comprising up to 18 discrete pieces of evidence, to be delivered to a detailed specification to be provided).
Each of these alternative assessment models a) and b) may only be applied once each across the MPA programme and to modules determined by the programme leader (ordinarily to the fifth and sixth modules to be delivered on the programme respectively).
Reassessment: Resubmission of any and all failed components (selecting a different essay title/topic where there is a choice of titles/topics).
