Unit Synopsis
Organisations are social entities and as such require the coordination and alignment of activities undertaken by people to achieve organisational goals. Management is defined as working with and through others whilst leadership is defined as the ability to influence others in a goal directed path. In this unit you will develop an understanding of the differences between management and leadership. You will address specific aspects of different management and leadership styles, including delegation and performance management, their appropriateness and impact given people and cultural context. You will critically examine the individual attributes such as values, personality, motivation and the use of power and how they affect individual and team performance. You will also gain an appreciation of the key role played by organisational leaders in the implementation and alignment of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals and how organisations and businesses can become institutions of positive social change as well as meeting the needs of shareholders and/or stakeholders. Using reflective practice as the basis for personal development, you will be required to examine, develop and acquire the conceptual knowledge, behavioural skills and attitudinal components needed to be an effective manager and leader.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Students enrolling in this unit must be undertaking the CL84 Master of Business Administration (International). 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 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).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Learning logs / diaries / Journal / log books | 30% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 40% |
| 3. Presentation | 30% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 1 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 20% response rate.
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.
Source: Student feedback; teaching team discussion
The use of Artificial Intelligence in industry is increasing and students may feel like they can use AI for assessments in this unit.
Embed more discussion of acceptable and unacceptable use of AI in the unit and its assessments.
The AI scale has been explicitly incorporated into the unit profile and assessment discussions with students.
Source: Tutor; grade profile.
Fortnightly learning logs were implemented in T1 2025 as a means to scaffold learning and deter from using AI. Some students only engaged with half of these logs, resulting in risk of failure and reduced grades overall.
Moving forward, the unit profile will more clearly articulate the importance of these logs for continuous feedback and scaffolding, and the tutor will be asked to stress this also in the workshops and consultations.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Analyse and critically reflect on the contribution made by leaders and managers in different organisational settings, in particular their role in fostering commitment to Sustainable Development Goals
- Evaluate and critically reflect on the impact of different approaches to managing and leading on employees
- Apply established management and leadership theories, both independently and collaboratively, to effectively identify and manage organisational and individual performance issues
- Interpret and successfully transmit knowledge, skills and ideas related to leading and managing people to a range of internal and external stakeholders
- Analyse critically and reflect on cultural differences in leadership and the implication for followers.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Learning logs / diaries / Journal / log books | • | • | • | • | |
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Presentation | • | • | • | • | • |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | • | |
| 2 - Communication | • | • | |||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | • | |
| 4 - Research | • | • | • | • | • |
| 5 - Self-management | • | • | • | • | |
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | |||
| 7 - Leadership | • | • | |||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |