Organisational Leadership
Background
This programme combines a general focus on the leadership of organisations, with a focus on the leadership of specific services and agency sectors. With globalisation and the development of knowledge economies in mind, it adopts an international and comparative perspective in critically appraising theory and research.
The emphasis is on leadership learning, and the structuring and the impact of leaders’ work. The programme highlights the contextualized nature of leadership and leadership knowledge, the development of leadership and management capabilities, types and levels of leadership and their link to policy environments, leaders’ personal attributes, and cultural and situational factors that shape leadership practice.
This programme will be delivered in parallel with our distance-learning cohort based in Oman who will be studying the MSc Organisational Leadership (Oman) through our partner institution Majan University College.
Who is the programme for?
The purpose of the MSc in Organisational Leadership is to provide participants who work in human services, such as education, health, welfare or social services with a unique opportunity to complete a programme that is both comprehensive and tailored to individual needs. The programme enables people from different leadership orientations to work together to enable useful discussions about their own leadership experiences, but also to foster interagency communications and interactions. The programme is unique in the sense that it will bring together people from early childhood, schools, higher education, adult education and public service agencies through common leadership programmes, but also allow them to follow and develop ideas within specific interest areas with individually oriented courses and supervised study. Upon completion of the programme, participants will be able to graduate with a degree with six unique pathways as below:
- MSc in Organisational Leadership (Childhood Practice)
- MSc in Organisational Leadership (School Leadership)
- MSc in Organisational Leadership (Higher Education)
- MSc in Organisational Leadership (Adult and Community Leadership)
- MSc in Organisational Leadership (Children’s Services)
- MSc in Organisational Leadership (Public Service)
What will you get from this programme?
By the end of this programme you will be able to:
- Explain and contrast the concept of leadership and its application to your own institutional context
- Apply the theories and styles associated with good leadership
- Analyse the range of contexts in which leadership policy and practice is developed: social, political, cultural as well as educational
- Justify practices associated with successful organisational change
- Describe the ethical nature of leadership and its practice within education and public sector provision
- Evaluate the contribution of research informed and evidence based practice
Introductory reading
If you have a chance to do some reading before beginning your programme, any one or more of the following books will be useful as background:-
- Northouse, P. (2012) Leadership Theory and Practice (6th Edition) (Thousand Oaks, Ca: Sage Publications)
- Jones, G (2009) Organizational Theory, Design, and Change (6th Edition), Pearson Education
- Townsend, T. and Bogotch, I. (2008) The Elusive What and the Problematic How: The Essential Leadership Questions for Higher education Leaders and Educational Researchers, (Rotterdam and Taiwan: Sense Publishers).