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Module Title	Leadership & Career Development
Module Code	HR559
School	DCUBS
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Module Co-ordinator	Dr Claire Gubbins	Office Number	Q216
Level	5	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None

Module Aims

To provide students with the opportunity to consider leadership and their leadership potential, to plan their careers and to identify and develop a range of skill and abilities that is required for successful careers as managers and professionals in a business environment.

Specifically it will:

Provide students with the opportunity to understand and consider leadership, styles of leadership and their own leadership style and potential.
Furnish students with the opportunity to plan their careers and to identify and develop a range of skills and abilities that are required for successful careers as managers and professionals in a business environment.

This module will impart the competencies that students need to identify the impact of organisational, national and international changes in career trajectories. Students will master various techniques used to read trends in the market place. They will also be able to apply this knowledge to their own circumstances. Thus through this very hands-on course students will learn of this attitudes and competencies needed to success in a fast-changing workplace. The material will be carefully expounded upon, so that students can extrapolate and generalise to multiple contexts.

The aim of the project is for students to research the range of opportunitites that are available to them following their graduation from the programme. The research should include an analysis of their leadership style, strenghts and weaknesses in their specific discipline of Human Resource Management, clearly assessing and evaluating the type of management, human resource management and associated positions currently available in the market place.

It will also involve an assessment of the type of graduates that organisations seek to employ, paying particular attention to the skills and competencies that they look for. An important aspect of the assignment requires them to indicate how they intend to fill any gaps that they indentify between their career choice and their current portfolio of skills and abilities.

Learning Outcomes

An understanding of leadership
An understanding of self-development in the context of management development
A knowledge of career planning and its relationship to life planning and the implications for personal career success
Enhanced personal skills and abilities and insights into how they can be develped further
An understanding of personal development planning.

Indicative Time Allowances
	Hours
Lectures	24
Tutorials
Laboratories
Seminars
Independent Learning Time	51

Total	75
Placements
Assignments

NOTE

Assume that a 5 credit module load represents approximately 75 hours' work, which includes all teaching, in-course assignments, laboratory work or other specialised training and an estimated private learning time associated with the module.

Indicative Syllabus

Assessment
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Indicative Reading List

Essential

Winstanley,D.2005.Personal Effectiveness.London:CIPD

Pedler,M.,Burgoyne,J.and Boydell,T.2001.A Manager's Guide to Self-Development.Maidenhead,Berks.,England(fourth edition)

Supplementary

Pedler,M.,Burgoyne,J. and Boydell,T.2004.A Manager's Guide to Leadership McGraw Hill.Maidenhead,Berks.,England

Bolles,R.1999.What Colour is your Parachute?Ten Speed Press, London.

Burgoyne,J.1999.Developing yourself,your career and your organisation.Lemos and Crane, London

Cottrell,S.2003.Skills for Success:The Personal Development Planning Handbook.Palgrave Macmillan.

Programme or List of Programmes

GDHRM

Grad Dip in Human Resource Management

MHRM

Masters in Human Resource Management

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