SUBJECT

Leadership, Management and Organisational Development Approaches

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master

Faculty of Education and Psychology

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2 Semester

Spring semester

Aim of the course:

This is an introductory course which provide an overview of the history and evolution of organizational and leadership – management development and the main approaches which represents the milestones of the development. As a result of the course student will have a solid theoretical background to the skills and practice of leadership and organizational development.

Learning outcome, competences

knowledge:

• History, evolution and main evidence based approaches of the leadership, management and organizational development

attitude:

• Commitment to integrating several approaches
• Becoming an evidence based practitioner

skills:

• Conscious application of the leadership and organizational development methods and tools

Content of the course

Topics of the course

• Definition and history of leadership and organizational development
• The development of LD and OD in Hungary
• The impact of the main psychological schools to LD and OD
• Five stems of OD
• LD and OD in the 21th century
• Future of LD and OD

Learning activities, learning methods

• Lectures
• Case illustrations and experiential learning activities to demonstrate the different approaches

Evaluation of outcomes

Learning requirements, mode of evaluation, criteria of evaluation:

requirements

• Knowledge of the course material and the readings
• Demonstrating the knowledge of at least three approaches through a case illustration of a leader or organisation development

mode of evaluation:

• Knowledge test
• Preparing a case illustration

criteria of evaluation:

• Answering correctly to test items (60%)
• Preparing a case illustration according to the given requirement (40%)

Compulsory reading list

• Course materials (presentations)

Recommended reading list

• Rothwell, W., Sullivan, R., Stavros, J. and Sullivan A., Eds. (2015) Practicing Organizational Development. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
• Burke, W. W (1994) Organization Development: A Process of Learning and Changing. Addison-Wesley
• Burke, R. Cooper, C. (2006), Inspiring Leaders. Routledge,
• Garavan, T. N., O’Brien, F., & Watson, S. (2014). Leadership development and organizational success. In K. Kraiger, J. Passmore, N.R. dos Santos & S. Malvezzi (eds.) The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Training, Development, and Performance Improvement (pp. 354-397). Boston: MA, Wiley-Blackwell. Adair J (2005) How to Grow Leaders. London: Kogan Page.