LDR510 Leadership History, Theory and Praxis
3 CREDIT HOURS
COURSE PURPOSE:
This course explores the nature of leadership as a complex process involving leaders, followers and situations. The content intends to set emerging leadership theories and practices into various situations, from entrepreneurial start-up endeavours to well-established institutions and even society as a whole. Discussions of leadership ideas and applications relate traditional and contemporary African experience to historical and current global theories. Although the characteristics of leaders and managers will be discussed, the focus of the class remains on exploring the concept of leadership as a process involving much more than the leader. The goal is to sharpen the students’ knowledge and skill related to leadership and management functions for today’s multiple contexts and roles.
- Lecturer: Mike Wicker