Module Details
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Title SCIENCE LEADERSHIP & ETHICS
Code MNGT601
Coordinator Dr SP Edwardson
Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Eng
S.P.Edwardson@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2019-20 Level 7 FHEQ First Semester 5

Aims

To introduce the principles and practice of ethical leadership.

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) A knowledge & understanding of the skills necessary to exercise leadership, responsibility & initiative.

(S1) Leadership

Syllabus
 

- Leadership and applied ethics: cultural and organisational factors.
- WOW projects.
- Fair process: managing in the knowledge economy.
- Change style/ten faces of innovation.
- Leadership courage.
- Foundation principles in ethics.
- Resolving ethical conflicts.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Teaching Method 1 - Lecture
Description: The flipped classroom approach will be utilised with a lecture at the beginning of each half-day session in which the pre-session directed learning will be reviewed
Attendance Recorded: Yes
Unscheduled Directed Student Hours (time spent away from the timetabled sessions but directed by the teaching staff): 8

Teaching Method 2 - Seminar
Description: A number of seminars will be lead by practitioners from national labs and industry
Attendance Recorded: Yes
Unscheduled Directed Student Hours (time spent away from the timetabled sessions but directed by the teaching staff): 8

Teaching Method 3 - Small Group Learning
Description: Students will be asked to work in groups to explore leadership and ethics issues
Attendance Recorded: Yes

Teaching Method 4 - Formative Feedback (e.g. peer, revision sessions)
Description: The module will conclude with one-to-one feedback session
Attendance Recorde d: Yes

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 2

 2

       1

1

8

8

 22
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 28
TOTAL HOURS 50

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
1500-word reflective essay on leadership and ethics There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (Whe  1500 words    100       

Recommended Texts
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