Leadership and 'Place'
PostgraduateTAS-BMA7252025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Price from
- $3,128
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Leadership and 'Place'
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, the student will be able to:
- Critically appraise dominant theories of leadership and capability against non-Western (including indigenous) paradigms of leadership and management.
- Engage in and reflect on processes of sensemaking to identify opportunities for leadership in specific and diverse places.
- Generate and communicate insights regarding your ongoing nuanced awareness of place and reflexive approach to leadership in developing organisational capability.
- Communicate well reasoned arguments utilising an academic writing style and appropriate referencing.
- Significance of Place
- Culture and cultural frameworks
- Sense-making
- Place-making
- Implicit bias, cultural competence and cultural humility
- Western paradigms of leadership
- Non-Western and indigenous paradigms of leadership
- Psychological safety
- Purpose-driven leadership
- Leadership and social impact
- Empowering communities and place-making
- Leading in complexity
Examination of the role and nature of leadership as a practice, as behaviour and as a suite of capabilities has been reignited in the wake of responses to the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, critique of leaders and the role they play has been ongoing for some time. This subject aims to identify a more expansive view of leadership practices beyond prevailing Western paradigms. Developing an appreciation of alternatives is imperative for leaders particularly if they are to leverage the benefits of diverse talents via a culture of belonging. Generating an understanding of the role of ‘place’ to appreciate the nuances of context is a key competence for leaders and managers if they are to recognise and implement appropriate responses to capability challenges amid complexity. As part of a suite of subjects examining leadership and the central function of organisational capability development, the premise of this subject is to expand your understanding or knowledge of non-traditional notions of leadership and to appreciate the importance of sense-making in organisations. The subject encourages you to think more expansively about the nature of leading in contemporary organisations.
- Brief Consultant’s Report (30%)
- Portfolio of Current Affairs (40%)
- Narrated PowerPoint Presentation (30%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-LOC-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Organisational Capability
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Organisational Capability
PostgraduateTAS-LOC-GCE