Key Responsibilities of Leadership in the Workplace: Importance of Personal Strengths and Limitation

Learning Outcomes

To explore the key responsibilities of leadership in the workplace and the critical importance of the objective analysis of personal strengths and limitations.

Upon the successful completion of this module, the student should be able to demonstrate the ability to:

• critically evaluate personal ability to fulfil key responsibilities of the leadership role within the context of established leadership styles;

• analyse and critically assess strategies for leadership in relation to others;

• plan for the leadership of change of an appropriate level of complexity within the workplace.

• Introduction to leadership models, theories and styles.

• Key responsibilities of the leadership role.

• Evaluate different leadership styles in the context of own responsibilities.

• Repertoire of leadership styles in different situations and with different people.

• Concept of emotional intelligence and how it applies to the leadership role.

• Importance of understanding one’s own strengths and limitations.

• Use and interpretation of techniques to identify characteristics, strengths and limitations.

• Importance of continuous self-development and identifying opportunities to develop oneself in the leadership role.

• Displaying confidence and self-assurance by emphasising personal strengths and showing a readiness to take calculated risks.

• Social awareness in terms of empathy, organisational and ‘political awareness, service to others.

• Relationship management in terms of inspiring others. 

Essay or Report

Within this module, the assessment requires the student to identify and agree a specific organisational context in which they can demonstrate the importance of understanding emergent leadership skills for the workplace. Through the application of the skills and knowledge gained from this module to a workplace issue of their choice, the student will demonstrate the importance of emergent leadership skills in the workplace.

Using the various case studies explored over the course of the module, explore, compare and contrast the leadership styles and approaches of three individuals. One should be a public figure of national significance, one should be a figure drawn from your personal experience and one should be yourself.

Prepare an essay or report to demonstrate your capacity to lead a particular project or organisational change. Demonstrate that you have an understanding of the concept and importance of critically evaluating your personal ability to fulfil key responsibilities of the leadership role within the context of established leadership styles. You should analyse and critically assess strategies for leadership in relation to others, whilst demonstrating the ability to plan and lead change at an appropriate level of complexity within your chosen workplace. 

This module aims to develop the understanding of workplace culture and context in order to improve one’s ability to function within the organizational norms, with regard to sustainability issues the context of the workplace. Embedding sustainability in leadership skills are critical for driving processes of change in organisations. It is now widely recognized that corporate sustainability requires leadership to drive change.

Students will also be encouraged to actively implement or contribute to changes that promote sustainable development within the scope of their own learning experience and study environment and effectively engage with real-life problems relevant to sustainable development.