Leadership Development in a Changing World (eve)

The Leadership Development in a Changing World module (BUSN11098) provides learners with an understanding of the concepts of leadership and change management by developing a critical multi-disciplinary approach to management and organisation. The module is predicated on the basis that the future performance of organisations will depend on employees at all levels being able to fully understand the change process and to implement and cope with change successfully. As such, this module will examine a range of theoretical and practical approaches to the management of change, with particular emphasis on people management and leadership issues. This module focuses on key theories and techniques that relate to the management of organisation change including the challenges of leading, influencing, and achieving sustainable changes pertinent to learners’ own organisation needs. Students will develop skills of synthesising information resulting from strategic analysis, making sound judgements in the absence of complete data and constructively challenging existing organisation ideas and practices. Knowledge and skills relating to problem solving, team performance and communication will also be addressed.

A critical reflexive component to the module explores leadership and change in the context of the dynamics of the changing world economy and society. The module therefore offers means by which learners would subject models of leadership and change to sustained critical scrutiny.

On successful completion of this module the student will be able to:

• Explain the concept of leadership by displaying critical awareness of current developments in both the theory and practice of leadership.
• Evaluate the nature of the underlying dynamics of the change process within organisations.
• Develop a system of analysis of circumstances, relationships and events in organisations using appropriate models of leadership.
• Critically assess the factors that affect the change process, in particular contextual factors such as organisational culture.
• Analyse the relationship between leadership and change in the functioning of effective organisations.

This is an SCQF Level 11 module and upon successful completion, participants will be awarded 20 credits.

 

Delivery 

A full timetable will be published in advance of course commencement.

 

Course presenter

This module will be delivered by TO BE CONFIRMED.

 

Funding

This course may be available on a fully funded basis to some delegates via our Skills Scholarships.

We are delighted to announce that we currently have an exclusive offer available to UWS alumni!

To celebrate the launch of a selection of Postgraduate modules being delivered in the evening on our Paisley campus starting in January 2025, UWS alumni can benefit from a 20% discount off the standard module fee of £1,070 thus, reducing the payable fee to £856.

Further details, including regarding eligibility, are available under Funding Support.

If you have any questions, please contact us at cpd@uws.ac.uk  

 

NOTE: This is a university module and upon approval of your application, you will be invited to register and then supported to complete enrolment. To enrol on the university system, the first step involves security set-up using the Microsoft Authenticator app; you will need to ensure that you have a compatible smartphone.

Further information is available at the Student Information Portal.

To access this module via the CPD route, individuals should be ordinarily resident in Scotland.  If you do not meet this criteria, please enquire here.

 

Further study

You may wish to consider our ground-breaking Master’s in Professional Practice (MProf).

The provides a personal, tailored learning experience at postgraduate level, blending personal development with academic studies where you build your own progamme of study.

For the first time, learners can choose modules from across a wide range of options offered by all four Schools at UWS, allowing you to create a bespoke curriculum, with support and guidance from programme staff.

This personalised approach ensures that each learner's unique needs are recognised, supported, and integrated into the qualification they receive.  There are options for you to achieve a Postgraduate certificate, a Postgraduate Diploma, or a full Masters qualification. 

The UWS CPD Centre can also support your first steps onto the Mprof through the following module:

• Making an Experiential Claim

For further information regarding this postgraduate programme, please contact ask@uws.ac.uk

For further information regarding any of the above modules, please contact cpd@uws.ac.uk