spring 2015
FSK-8003 Leadership skills - preparing PhD students for taking on leadership tasks - 2 ECTS

Type of course

Multi-disciplinary

Admission requirements

Admission requirements
The course is open for candidates with a documented admission to a PhD program at all faculties at UiT- The Arctic University of Norway. PhD-candidates from other institutions are also welcome. Maximum 20 participants.

Application deadline April 20.
To register for the course, please use the Application Form and send it to Ingjerd Gauslaa Nilsen at BFE faculty, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway Ingjerd.nilsen@uit.no. Course responsible are Ole N. Aarbakke.

Course content

Most PhD students have little leadership experience and most lack leadership training or formal education to show for on their CV. Furthermore, few PhD-students are aware of their personal skills and leadership potential, or how to develop these. Despite these facts, many jobs available to candidates with PhD degrees, both outside and within academia, include leadership tasks such as project management, team leadership and supervision.

This course aims to prepare PhD students to take on leadership tasks once their degrees are completed. This will be achieved through introducing different leadership concepts and raising the PhD students` awareness of the value of leadership and how leadership takes many forms.

The second main objective is to make the PhD students reflect upon their own problem solving style and the associated advantages and disadvantages.

The course consists of a seminar and lectures by experienced leaders from academia and the private sector. Prior to course start, the participants will be tasked with mapping their personal problem-solving style (pre-course work). Nordnorsk Lederutvikling (english: Northern Norwegian leadership development) will guide the students through various practical problem-solving exercises.


Objectives of the course

Knowledge:

  • Be able to describe the contents of different theories on leadership
  • Be able to explain the range of leadership skills needed in order to practice good leadership.
  • Be able to describe different problem-solving styles and their associated benefits and disadvantages.

 Skills:

  • Use achieved knowledge as analytical tools to formulate, structure and discuss aspects of leadership
  • Be able to transfer knowledge of leadership and leadership skills to practical use
  • Be able to reflect upon own leadership skills and take steps to further ones development

Language of instruction and examination

English

Teaching methods

Lectures by experienced leaders and one practical seminar. The course will be held in week 22 (May 26 - May 29)

Assessment

In order to meet the objectives of the course, each participant will be required to write a short essay. In order to pass the exam,
each student will have to provide:
  • Pre-course work according to instructions provided once you have been accepted as a participant.
  • Participation on all lectures and the seminar
  • Short written essay, the subject of which will be given by the end of the course.

Recommended reading/syllabus

  • Baack, Jane, Norma Carr-Ruffino, and Monique Pelletier. "Making It to the Top: Specific Leadership Skills: A Comparison of Male and Female Perceptions of Skills Needed by Women and Men Managers." Librarian Career Development2.1 (1994): 16-22.
  • Cacioppe, Ron, and Simon Albrecht. "Using 3608 feedback and the integral model to develop leadership and management skills." Leadership &
    Organization Development Journal
    21.8 (2000): 390-404
  • Hautala, Tiina M. "The relationship between personality and transformational leadership." Journal of Management Development 25.8 (2006):
    777-794.
  • Russell, Roy G., and Rhonda Mizrahi. "Development of a situational model for transformational leadership." Journal of Leadership &
    Organizational Studies
    2.3 (1995): 154-163.
  • Shelley, Arthur (2011) "Project-Oriented Leadership", International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Vol. 4 Iss: 2, pp.355- 356
  • Smith, John K., and Joseph Blase. "From empiricism to hermeneutics: Educational leadership as a practical and moral activity." Journal of
    Educational Administration
    29.1 (1991).
  • Smothers, Jack, et al. "From the follower¿s viewpoint: a configurational approach to the ideal academic leader." Journal of Leadership &
    Organizational Studies
    18.3 (2011): 293-307.

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  • About the course
  • Campus: Tromsø |
  • ECTS: 2
  • Course code: FSK-8003
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