Complete Syllabus of Leadership and communication | MGT 690 | MBS 4th semester

 Credits: 3 

 Lecture Hours: 48 

Course Objective:

Leadership is fundamental to improving groups, organizations, and society and communication is fundamental to leadership. Leadership is an interactive process through which leaders and followers develop an effective approach to collective goals. This course aims to increase understanding of the leadership process and the communication involved enhances the skills of all participants and fosters more effective collaboration. 

Course Description:

This course contains introduction of leadership and communication, leadership styles and behavior, politics, power and influence, leadership in groups and teams, leadership, culture and diversity, ethical leadership and followership. 

Course Details:

Unit 1: Introduction LH 7 

Concept, prerequisites of organizational leaders, leadership from a communication perspective, The dimensions of leadership communication styles, Authoritarian, democratic and leissez-fair leadership, Task and interpersonal leadership, followers communication styles, communication styles and information processing. Case discussion 

Unit 2: Leadership Styles and behavior LH 10 

Leadership traits, situation, transactional, functional and relationship leadership, Steward and servant leadership, transformation and charismatic leadership, value-based leadership, assessing leadership potential, measuring the effects of leadership, managerial derailment and self-defeating behavior, developing planning and pipeline, professional development, Leadermember exchange theory. Case discussion 

Unit 3: Politics, power and Influence LH 8 

The nature of organizational politics, Use of political behavior, guidelines for developing political skills, Power and leadership, sources of power, types of power and influencing tactics, credibility, compliance-gaining strategies, developing argumentative competence, Negotiating, the leader as negotiator, the process of negotiation, resisting influence. Case discussion 

Unit 4: Leadership in Groups and Teams LH 8 

Use of teams in organizations, Fundamentals of group interaction, Basic and advance skills of team leaders, Making team effective, emergent leadership, leadership skills in effective team meetings, group decision making, team leadership, fostering team leadership, self-managed teams. Case discussion 

Unit 5: Leadership, Culture and Diversity LH 8 

Leadership in different cultures, the leader as culture maker, the leader as sense maker, intergroup leadership, the power of expectation: the Pygmalion effect, managing diversity, understanding cultural differences, benefits of embracing diversity, the downside of diversity, fostering diversity, effect of globalization on diversity leadership. Case discussion

Unit 6: Ethical Leadership and Followership LH7 

Personal values, organizational practices that foster an ethical work environment, authentic leadership, factors influencing ethical behavior, justifying unethical behavior, guides to ethical behavior, Roles and responsibilities of followers, trusting relationships, strategies to promote followership. Case discussion 

Text and Reference:

Hackman, M. Z. and Johnson, C.E. Leadership: a Communication Perspective, Waveland Press 

Johnson, C.E. and Hackman, M.Z. Creative Communication, Waveland Press. 

Haldar, U.K. Leadership and Team Building, Oxford 

Achua, C.F. and Lussier, R.N. Effective Leadership, CENGAGE Learning 

Rowe, W. G and Guerrero L. Cases in Leadership, Sage.