Overview
Leadership and Integrity extensively explores issues about how leadership practices facilitate organisational effectiveness. Understanding, analysing and applying the nature and effective practice of leadership are important for organisations to pursue sustainable development in the changing environment. In this unit you will examine a variety of traditional and more contemporary approaches to leadership, their effect on followers and when and how they should be applied. You will also consider leadership in a cross-cultural context and how different leadership styles are more accepted, or less tolerated, in different cultures. You will identify the key competencies required of leaders to effectively influence followers whilst demonstrating a high degree of integrity. Using advanced reflective practice as the basis for personal development, you will be required to research, reflect on and acquire the conceptual knowledge, behavioural skills and attitudinal components of specific leadership competencies needed to be an effective leader.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Students enrolled in CL20 (Master of Business Administration), CC52 (Graduate Diploma in Business Administration), CL21 (Master of Business Management), and CM35 (Graduate Diploma of Leading Organisational Change) can enrol in this unit. Students in other Masters courses who have greater than three years relevant work or professional experience, i.e. they meet the entry criteria to CL20 may also enrol, subject to verification.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from SUTE
I really enjoyed this unit and found it extremely valuable. It helped me identify the areas of skills I have to develop to improve my leadership skills.
Diagnostic tool-based class exercise to learn how to address behavioural patterns.
Feedback from Feedback from students.
Lecturer's knowledge and efforts to engage with students.
Continue to provide timely feedback and encourage students to contact the unit leader/lecturers for assistance.
Feedback from SUTE
Reflective essay (third assignment) provides an excellent opportunity to assess the learning outcomes
Provide structured guidelines for improving the quality of the reflective essay by using the theories and diagnostic tools