Reflective Leadership - Study guide

This course will increase competences for different kinds of contexts where leadership (including self-leadership and distributed/shared leadership) is needed. It is useful for those students that act as leaders, yet students do not have to be in a leadership position when taking this course.

No prerequisites.

- Leadership approaches
- Critical leadership research
- Leadership in context
- Becoming and being a leader
- Beliefs about human nature (Ihmiskäsitys)
- Knowing your people
- Leadership development
- Well-being of a leader

Students reflect on their own leadership and recognise their development needs. The student sets goals for developing her/his leadership and creates assessment methods for self-evaluation. They recognize different approaches to leadership. The student provides added value for their own leadership by participating in a dialogical development process together with other people.

Students reflect their own leadership from various perspectives in connection to leadership research. They recognise their own developmental needs based on an analysis and set reasonable goals and assessment methods for evaluating the progress. The student creates and learns from networks that will support her/his self-awareness.

Students critically reflect on their own leadership from various perspectives in connection to leadership research and the data they have gathered. They set context-dependent goals for leadership development. Students recognise their development needs and creates assessment methods to evaluate continuous development. Students increase their self-awareness in a constructive way, is able to assess, utilize and deepen feedback created in dialogical networks they have created.

When the implementation type of the course is contact, online or blended it is required that the student is present during those teaching hours that are marked in the study schedule. If you are absent more than 25%, your grade will be lowered by one. If you are absent more than 50%, the course is failed.

The course explores leadership from several essential perspectives and provides opportunities for purposeful personal development in leadership. Reflective leadership is structured around three themes: 1) self-awareness, 2) leadership concepts (theories) and 3) leadership development. You can increase and deepen your leadership competence with the help of theoretical knowledge, practice and self-reflection.

The content is designed and structured into three levels which guide and support the learning journey. The first level is mandatory and comprises two assignments and one multiple-choice quiz based on the course book. The second and the third level delve further into the topics. After completing all three levels you have accomplished six learning assignments altogether. Grading is aligned with the levels and respective assignments.

All necessary materials will be available online. The instructions for the learning assignments will be found on Moodle as well as the submission areas for the assignments. In addition, some optional consultation sessions will be offered by the teachers.

Course book: Dugan, John P. (2017): Leadership Theory. Cultivating Critical Perspectives. John Wiley & Sons. Available as an e-book (library of Haaga-Helia). Additional materials available on Moodle.

The course is grounded on perspectives which explore leadership in the context of work, organisations, professional competence and personal growth. You will analyze your view on leadership in the light of work-related experiences as well as leadership research.

Pasila Campus

No exam.

English

The topics of the course and the course book offer avenues for diverse thinking including e.g. international work environments and inclusive patterns and practices.

15.01.2024 - 15.03.2024

Learning assignments Level 1 (consisting of three assignments): Improving self-awareness + Leadership as a concept (quiz) + Practicing leadership. Level 2 (consisting of two assignments): My strengths in leadership + My personal leadership manifesto. Level 3 (consisting of one assignment): Enriching my leadership manifesto.

02.01.2024 - 12.01.2024

This virtual implementation spans eight weeks starting on 15th of January until 24th of March 2024. The due dates regarding the learning assignments are allocated according to the time span in question.

MALEAE
3AMK
VIRTUAL
INSTRUCTED
EXCH

See the instructions for demonstrating prior learning in master-level studies

This is the first implementation in English.

Heta-Liisa Malkavaara, Eija Kjelin

61 - 80

The evaluation is based on the assessment criteria of the course (see the course description). More detailed information can be found in the instructions for each learning assignment on Moodle.

Numerical assessment of the learning assignments:
Level 1 assignments altogether: maximum 60 points
Level 2 assignments altogether: maximum 20 points
Level 3 assignments altogether: maximum 20 points

Scale for the final grading:
Total of 50 points = grade 1
Total of 60 points = grade 2
Total of 70 points = grade 3
Total of 80 points = grade 4
Total of 90 points = grade 5

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