Module: Personal Leadership

Latest Module Specifications

Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026

Module Title	Personal Leadership
Module Code	MNA1103 (ITS: MT5117)
Faculty	DCU Business School	School	DCU Business School
NFQ level	9	Credit Rating	5

Description

This purpose of this module is to help participants to enhance their personal leadership skills through an extended action-learning process guided by the course leader. This module compliments the work done in related modules on institutional leadership and ethical issues in business leadership in providing the DCU MBA with its signature 'leadership' capstone theme.

Learning Outcomes

1. Exercise personal leadership more effectively in the workplace with their team and their peers, from the enhancement of particular leadership skills.
2. Deal with their own and others' emotional reactions to the stresses presented by leadership challenges in the workplace with enhanced insight and effectiveness
3. Learn more effectively from their own experiences when dealing with ongoing leadership challenges in the workplace
4. Research, design and implement new action-learning interventions to further enhance their leadership effectiveness

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full time hours per semester
Lecture	9	Participation in scheduled classes
Independent Study	116	On-line interaction with the lecturer for ongoing advice, doing the background reading, carrying out the management audit, conducting the action research exercise, writing up the report, preparing the classroom presentation
Total Workload: 125

Section Breakdown
CRN	11093	Part of Term	Semester 1
Coursework	0%	Examination Weight	0%
Grade Scale		Pass Both Elements	Y
Resit Category		Best Mark	N
Module Co-ordinator	Melrona Kirrane	Module Teacher	David Mann

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Assessment Breakdown
Assignment	Major End of Module Report	100%	Sem 2 End

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; RC1: A resit is available for both^* components of the module. RC2: No resit is available for a 100% coursework module. RC3: No resit is available for the coursework component where there is a coursework and summative examination element. ^* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a coursework/summative examination split; where the module is 100% coursework, there will also be a resit of the assessment

Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

The centerpiece of this module is an extended action-learning exercise to enhance the participants' personal leadership skills

1. Personal leadership skills audit
The module begins with the participants carrying out a personal leadership skills audit using a well-established instrument.

2. Introduction and set-up
Two introductory sessions are used to explain how to interpret the audit results, introduce the pedagogic rationale for the module, provide an overview of the main course readings, choose the particular leadership skills that will become the focus of each participant's action-learning exercise and set up the platform for on-line interaction.

3. The personal leadership skills action-learning exercise
The main activity of the module is the design and execution of the action-learning intervention back in the workplace. The particular leadership skills chosen for this action-learning exercise are selected by the participants based on insights gained from their leadership skills sudit.

4. Sharing the lessons learned
The participants come together for a final classroom session to share the insights from the exercise and what they have learned.

Indicative Reading List

Books:

D.A. Whetten and K.S. Cameron: 2007, Developing Management Skills, 7th, Prentice-Hall,

Articles:

0: Selected articles from leading management journals,

Other Resources

None