leadership skills for managers 2010 outline

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Jaypee Business SchoolJaypee Institute of Information Technology University

A-10, Sector 62

NOIDA, 201 307 India

M4EHR27: Leadership Skills for Managers

Term IV, July-September 2010

Course outline

Learning Facilitator: Harsh Sharma

Target learners: MBA (2009-11)

Learning Rooms: F8, G-13 (Arya Bhatt Bhawan-II)

Faculty Office: Arya Bhatt Bhawan-II, Fourth Floor

Meeting Hours: By appointment

Adopted Text: Gary Yukl (GY), Leadership in

Organizations, Sixth Edition, Pearson

Education Limited New Delhi.

Author(s): Gary Yukl

ISBN 0-81-2650809-4 Paperback, 560

Pages

References:

Richard Daft, Leadership, Cenage, 2005.

James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner, The Leadership Challenge, John Wiley & Sons.

1. Leadership Skills for Managers: An IntroductionLeaders are under increasing pressure to deliver results and services faster, better and more cost

effectively. To ensure success in a service team environment, leaders must inspire others to

work together to deliver high-quality results.In this course, students gain the skills to structure, measure and tune teamwork performance.

Through practical workshops, students will learn how to become a leader who equips his or her

teams with the skills and capabilities to optimize productivity and performance and ensure

success.

This course provides in-depth demonstration of the skills and techniques essential to effective

business leadership. Concepts and applications of goal setting, team building, negotiations and

communications are analyzed, discussed, and practiced.

Students discover their basic leadership style within situational leadership theory and learn to

use this knowledge efficiently.

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Learning Objectives:

The objective of this course can be summarized are as follows:

1. To develop the teams to maximize their strengths and enhance productivity.

2. To optimize organization and work design for success in service delivery teams.

3. To motivate team with effective performance measurement

4. Integrate your role as a leader into your management style


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3. Learning tools:The course will involve a healthy balance of classroom discussion and experiential activities as

listed below;

Textbook

Assigned Cases, Readings and Exercises

Power-point inputs lecture Review and reinforcement

Presentations and reports

Case discussion

Course Schedule


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3. Evaluation

Evaluation Scheme

S. No. Component Weightage (%)

1Midterm 30

2 Case Analysis 10

3 Term Project 20

5 End Term

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4.Project and Project Report You will work in teams for this assignment.

Topics and objectives will be finalized by the end of second week of the term in

consultation with course instructor.

This assignment requires you to research on given topic and submit a detailed report.

Each team will submit only one report.

Information will be accessed from websites, journals, magazines, newspapers as well as

primary sources.

Each case report should include the following:

Team number, names of team members and team leader.

Introduction of the company chosen

Internal work culture, communication culture

Five things your team learnt from the research and analysis

References including web-references.

Deadlines for submissions

Proposal: Last teaching day, Second Week

Feedback from Course Coordinator: Last Teaching day, 3rd week

Final Submission: Last Teaching day 8th

week

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