Outline

Overview

This unit addresses how to lead in diverse and multicultural contexts. Students develop a keen sense of their individual strengths and biases and explore how these might enable them to become responsible global leaders. To situate this development, the unit turns to a key challenge for global leaders. To lead innovation means including heterogeneous perspectives, capabilities, and backgrounds. Innovation requires a less rule and more relationship-based approach, which makes it a special case for managing a diverse workforce in a complex environment. It also raises awareness of issues related to openness, sustainability, and inclusiveness for global leaders. Overall, the unit moves from personal perspectives on global leadership via leadership in teams and organizations to leading in networks.

Unit details and rules

Unit code	CEMS6004
Academic unit	Management Education
Credit points	6
Prohibitions ?	CEMS6106
Prerequisites ?	None
Corequisites ?	None
Assumed knowledge ?	None
Available to study abroad and exchange students	No

Teaching staff

Coordinator	John Shields, john.shields@sydney.edu.au
Lecturer(s)	John Shields, john.shields@sydney.edu.au

Type	Description	Weight	Due	Length
Assignment	Individual assignment Learning e-Journal	40%	Week 07 Due date: 26 Apr 2023 at 23:59 Closing date: 10 May 2023	1500 words or equivalent
Outcomes assessed:
Assignment	Group assignment Leadership development challenge	30%	Week 11 Due date: 22 May 2023 at 23:59 Closing date: 12 Jun 2023	2000 words or equivalent
Outcomes assessed:
Creative assessment / demonstration	Individual learning demonstration interviews On-line learning demonstration interview (i.e. viva voce) with the lecturer	30%	Week 12 Due date: 29 May 2023 at 23:59 Closing date: 12 Jun 2023	20 minutes
Outcomes assessed:
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Assessment summary

Individual assignment: Students are required to submit a collated, integrated and explicitly reflective version of their weekly Canvas/Padlet posts (for Modules 1-6 inclusive) in the form of a learning e-journal. Due 26 April.
Group assignment: In this leadership development challenge you will identify a leadership insight, technique or another building block that could help emerging leaders to be more influential in working with and leading others in multinational contexts. Rather than a traditional presentation, your final delivery (in the Module 10 class time) will be a training and development session in which you will be required to convey the particular concept or technique in a way that could be useful to your classmates in their leadership development. The important part of the presentation is that your audience finds the proposed ideas useful and relevant and that they feel engaged throughout the presentation. Due 22 May.
Skills-based assessment: Each student will be allocated a 20 minute 1:1 online recorded interview session (i.e. a short viva voce) with the lecturer to afford you the opportunity to (1) demonstrate depth of understanding of unit learning content (including required readings, Canvas posts, lectures, class discussion, assessed strengths and traits, and your submitted individual and group assignments) and (2) show how you can apply this knowledge to both specific organisational cases and their own leadership development. Interviews ill be conducted between Friday 26 May and Monday 29 May, inclusive.

Detailed information for each assessment can be found under 'Assignments' on the unit Canvas site.

Assessment criteria

The University awards common result grades, set out in the Coursework Policy 2014 (Schedule 1).

As a general guide, a high distinction indicates work of an exceptional standard, a distinction a very high standard, a credit a good standard, and a pass an acceptable standard.

Result name	Mark range	Description
High distinction	85 - 100	Awarded when you demonstrate the learning outcomes for the unit at an exceptional standard, as defined by grade descriptors or exemplars outlined by your faculty or school.
Distinction	75 - 84	Awarded when you demonstrate the learning outcomes for the unit at a very high standard, as defined by grade descriptors or exemplars outlined by your faculty or school.
Credit	65 - 74	Awarded when you demonstrate the learning outcomes for the unit at a good standard, as defined by grade descriptors or exemplars outlined by your faculty or school.
Pass	50 - 64	Awarded when you demonstrate the learning outcomes for the unit at an acceptable standard, as defined by grade descriptors or exemplars outlined by your faculty or school.
Fail	0 - 49	When you don’t meet the learning outcomes of the unit to a satisfactory standard.

For more information see sydney.edu.au/students/guide-to-grades.

For more information see guide to grades.

Late submission

In accordance with University policy, these penalties apply when written work is submitted after 11:59pm on the due date:

Deduction of 5% of the maximum mark for each calendar day after the due date.
After ten calendar days late, a mark of zero will be awarded.

This unit has an exception to the standard University policy or supplementary information has been provided by the unit coordinator. This information is displayed below:

Deduction of 5% of the maximum mark for each calendar day after the due date.

Academic integrity

The Current Student website provides information on academic integrity and the resources available to all students. The University expects students and staff to act ethically and honestly and will treat all allegations of academic integrity breaches seriously.

We use similarity detection software to detect potential instances of plagiarism or other forms of academic integrity breach. If such matches indicate evidence of plagiarism or other forms of academic integrity breaches, your teacher is required to report your work for further investigation.

You may only use artificial intelligence and writing assistance tools in assessment tasks if you are permitted to by your unit coordinator, and if you do use them, you must also acknowledge this in your work, either in a footnote or an acknowledgement section.

Studiosity is permitted for postgraduate units unless otherwise indicated by the unit coordinator. The use of this service must be acknowledged in your submission.

Learning support

Simple extensions

If you encounter a problem submitting your work on time, you may be able to apply for an extension of five calendar days through a simple extension.  The application process will be different depending on the type of assessment and extensions cannot be granted for some assessment types like exams.

Special consideration

If exceptional circumstances mean you can’t complete an assessment, you need consideration for a longer period of time, or if you have essential commitments which impact your performance in an assessment, you may be eligible for special consideration or special arrangements.

Special consideration applications will not be affected by a simple extension application.

Using AI responsibly

Co-created with students, AI in Education includes lots of helpful examples of how students use generative AI tools to support their learning. It explains how generative AI works, the different tools available and how to use them responsibly and productively.

Weekly schedule

WK	Topic	Learning activity
Week 01	Nature: perspectives on the meaning of "global leadership"	Block teaching (4 hr)
Week 02	Self-awareness: How do you shape up as a potential global leader (and what are your development needs)?	Block teaching (4 hr)
Week 03	Context: Global leadership challenges and opportunities in a digitally-connected but increasingly VUCA world	Block teaching (4 hr)
Week 04	Competencies: Leadership attributes that matter (for better or worse)	Block teaching (4 hr)
Week 05	Responsibility: Ethical and values-based global leadership (and the opposite)	Block teaching (4 hr)
Week 06	Coming to terms with "foreignness": acquiring, managing and leading intercultural competence	Block teaching (4 hr)
Week 07	Nurture: Learning to lead globally	Block teaching (4 hr)
Week 08	Building high-performance teams: Tips and traps for global leaders	Block teaching (4 hr)
Week 09	Leading innovation and change in global enterprises: Cases and causes of success and failure	Block teaching (4 hr)
Week 10	Team presentations and in-class discussion	Block teaching (4 hr)

Attendance and class requirements

Lecture recordings: All lectures are recorded and will be available on Canvas for student use. Please note the Business School does not own the system and cannot guarantee that the system will operate or that every class will be recorded. Students should ensure they attend and participate in all classes.

Study commitment

Typically, there is a minimum expectation of 1.5-2 hours of student effort per week per credit point for units of study offered over a full semester. For a 6 credit point unit, this equates to roughly 120-150 hours of student effort in total.

Required readings

All weekly readings for this unit can be accessed in e-form via the relevant weekly module page on the unit Canvas site.

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes are what students know, understand and are able to do on completion of a unit of study. They are aligned with the University's graduate qualities and are assessed as part of the curriculum.

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

LO1. Assess your leadership strengths, biases and development needs against models validated by research and apply this understanding to your leadership development.
LO2. Describe an integrative framework for global leadership derived from course materials.
LO3. Formulate a leadership development initiative in groups and persuasively communicate, explain, and defend its relevance.
LO4. Analyse global leadership issues taking into account cultural context, business context and individual differences and capabilities.

Graduate qualities

The graduate qualities are the qualities and skills that all University of Sydney graduates must demonstrate on successful completion of an award course. As a future Sydney graduate, the set of qualities have been designed to equip you for the contemporary world.

GQ1	Depth of disciplinary expertise Deep disciplinary expertise is the ability to integrate and rigorously apply knowledge, understanding and skills of a recognised discipline defined by scholarly activity, as well as familiarity with evolving practice of the discipline.
GQ2	Critical thinking and problem solving Critical thinking and problem solving are the questioning of ideas, evidence and assumptions in order to propose and evaluate hypotheses or alternative arguments before formulating a conclusion or a solution to an identified problem.
GQ3	Oral and written communication Effective communication, in both oral and written form, is the clear exchange of meaning in a manner that is appropriate to audience and context.
GQ4	Information and digital literacy Information and digital literacy is the ability to locate, interpret, evaluate, manage, adapt, integrate, create and convey information using appropriate resources, tools and strategies.
GQ5	Inventiveness Generating novel ideas and solutions.
GQ6	Cultural competence Cultural Competence is the ability to actively, ethically, respectfully, and successfully engage across and between cultures. In the Australian context, this includes and celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, knowledge systems, and a mature understanding of contemporary issues.
GQ7	Interdisciplinary effectiveness Interdisciplinary effectiveness is the integration and synthesis of multiple viewpoints and practices, working effectively across disciplinary boundaries.
GQ8	Integrated professional, ethical, and personal identity An integrated professional, ethical and personal identity is understanding the interaction between one’s personal and professional selves in an ethical context.
GQ9	Influence Engaging others in a process, idea or vision.

Outcome map

Learning outcomes	Graduate qualities
Learning outcomes

Responding to student feedback

This section outlines changes made to this unit following staff and student reviews.

The focus of the unit evolved from cross-cultural management to include innovation management. This iteration also places greater emphasis on additional themes central to the CEMS graduate profile, namely self-awareness, leadership competencies and global respobsibility.

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Late submission

Academic integrity

Learning support

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Simple extensions

Special consideration

Using AI responsibly

Weekly schedule

Weekly schedule

Attendance and class requirements

Study commitment

Required readings

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes

Graduate qualities

Outcome map

Responding to student feedback

Responding to student feedback

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CEMS6004: Global Leadership

Semester 1, 2023 [Normal day] - Remote

Overview

Overview

Unit details and rules

Teaching staff

Assessment

Assessment

Assessment summary

Assessment criteria

Late submission

Academic integrity

Learning support

Learning support

Simple extensions

Special consideration

Using AI responsibly

Weekly schedule

Weekly schedule

Attendance and class requirements

Study commitment

Required readings

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes

Graduate qualities

Outcome map

Responding to student feedback

Responding to student feedback

Additional information

Additional information

Disclaimer

On this page

Useful links

Media

Student links

About us

Connect