Description

Leadership Management

Leadership Management is intended to equip the candidate with knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable him/her to apply and demonstrate leadership and management skills to grow an enterprise under various circumstances and environments including under uncertainties.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

A candidate who passes this paper should be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of leadership techniques and management principles
• Apply knowledge of leadership and management theories in organizations
• Effectively undertake management functions
• Make rational management decisions in an organisational context
• Embrace and manage strategic

CONTENT

1. Introduction to management
   • Nature of management
   • Importance of management
   • Levels of management
   • Multi-disciplinary nature of management
   • Roles of management as advocated by Henry Mintzberg
   • The changing roles of management and managers
   • Qualities of an effective manager
   • Management and administration

2.                  Evolution and development of management thought

• Classical approaches to management
  • Taylor’s view point
  • Fayol’s administrative theory
  • Max Weber’s bureaucratic theory

2.2     Behavioural management approach

• Elton Mayo-Human relation theory
• Abraham Maslow’s theory
• McGregor’s X and Y theories
• Mary Parker Follett’s Management theory

2.3   Modern management theories

• Quantitative thinking
• Systems thinking
• Contingency thinking

3.             Leading as a function of management

• Differences between management and leadership
• Attributes and skills of a good leader
• Delegation, responsibility and accountability
• Power, authority and accountability

4.             Other Functions of management

• Planning function:
  • Introduction to planning
  • Importance of planning
  • Planning process
  • Types of plans
  • Approaches to planning

4.2    Organising function

• Meaning and importance of organising
• Factors affecting the organising function
• Process of organising
• Principles of organising
• Organisational structures

4.3    Staffing function

• Meaning and importance of staffing
• Staffing process
• Factors that affect the staffing function
• Components of the staffing function

4.4    Controlling function

• Meaning and importance of control
• Steps in the control process
• Types of control
• Controlling for organisational and employee performance
• Tools for measuring performance
• Essentials of an effective control system

5.             Environmental Analysis

• Micro-environment
• Macro-environment
• Internal environment
• External environment
• Tools of environmental analysis

6.             Leadership approaches and strategy

• Leadership traits
• Leadership styles
• Leadership skills
• Formulation of an organisation’s strategic direction
• Differences between transactional leadership and transformational leadership
• Conflict resolution mechanisms
• Ethics in leadership

7.           Decision making

• Importance of decision making
• Decision making models/approaches
• Types of decisions
• Decision making process
• Problem solving skills
• Decision making under different conditions
• Challenges in decision making
• Effective decision making

8.           Enterprise management

• Meaning and concept of entrepreneurship
• Intrapreneurship
• Entrepreneurial development
• Enhancing creativity and innovation in organisations
• Methods of generating ideas
• Introduction to business plan
• Protection of intellectual properties

 

9.           Project management

• Project management concepts
• Characteristics of a project
• Importance of projects
• Features of projects and baseline surveys
• Illustration of the Project life cycle
• Project planning and organising
• Project resources and costing
• Project completion and evaluation

10.         Marketing management

• Meaning and importance of marketing
• Marketing management orientation/philosophies
• Marketing mix
• Development of marketing information
• Marketing strategies
• Marketing research and intelligence
• International marketing and e-commerce

11.         Leadership and Strategic Change

• Meaning of change
• Theories of change
• Types of organisational change
• Managing resistance to change
• Diagnosing the change context
• Levers for strategic change
• Methods of introducing strategic change
• Problems of formal change programmes
• Leading Change

12. Case Studies in Leadership and Management