Macquarie University
Leading: Human Resource Management and Leadership Specialization
54,461 enrolled
Macquarie University

Leading: Human Resource Management and Leadership Specialization

Get ready for the Future of Work. Leading people and organisations to adapt, compete and succeed in a complex, global environment.

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Intermediate level
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3 months at 10 hours a week
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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

(2,403 reviews)

Intermediate level
Some related experience required
Flexible schedule
3 months at 10 hours a week
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers

Overview

  • Analyse how to motivate staff with meaningful work

  • Understand how to enable your organisation to deliver on its strategic objectives

  • Examine the ways you can harness your team’s diversity and use teamwork to innovate and increase your organisation’s output

  • Evaluate leadership theories and develop your personal leadership skills

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Taught in English
41 practice exercises

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Specialization - 4 course series

What you'll learn

  • Define the key organisational capabilities required for a firm’s positioning strategy as the anchoring point for leading an organisation

  • Assess the degree of alignment between key capabilities and organisational architecture (culture, structure, people practices, systems)

  • Identify the organisational misalignment issues that a leader should prioritize and focus their change plan on

  • Develop and present concrete, suitable, and feasible organisational change recommendations that can resolve organisational misalignment issues

Skills you'll gain

Category: Organizational Structure
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: Business Strategy
Category: Risk Management
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Human Resource Strategy
Category: Organizational Effectiveness
Category: Business Leadership
Category: Workforce Planning
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Category: Risk Analysis

What you'll learn

  • Explain how individuals may differ across a range of attributes including their personality, values, perceptions, and emotions

  • Analyse the implications of workplace diversity, including challenges and potential benefits

  • Explain the motivational characteristics of work and apply these to job design

  • Analyze the role of team dynamics and composition in the team performance

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cultural Diversity
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Intercultural Competence
Category: Conflict Management
Category: Team Motivation
Category: Team Management
Category: Employee Engagement
Category: Organizational Leadership
Category: People Development
Category: People Management
Category: Leadership
Category: Communication
Category: Innovation

What you'll learn

  • Critically evaluate the similarities and differences between traditional and contemporary theories of leadership

  • Examine the complexities and challenges of day-to-day organisational life might require agile shifts between different leadership styles

  • Analyse how post-industrial forms of participative and self-organising leadership might enable or disable effective cross-functional teamwork

Skills you'll gain

Category: Leadership
Category: Communication
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Leadership Development
Category: Organizational Leadership
Category: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Team Management
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Business Leadership
Category: Culture Transformation
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Staff Management
Category: Adaptability

What you'll learn

  • Evaluate approaches to influencing and creating meaning at work

  • Evaluate and apply approaches to meaning making that play a role in aligning employee buy-in of organisational narratives

  • Evaluate, create and apply strategies to leverage meaning making through branding

  • Situate discussions of meaning making within broader social contexts and concerns.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Brand Strategy
Category: Branding
Category: Organizational Leadership
Category: Communication
Category: Storytelling
Category: Employee Engagement
Category: Business Leadership
Category: Strategic Communication
Category: Influencing
Category: Social Sciences
Category: Motivational Skills
Category: Brand Management
Category: Leadership
Category: Brand Awareness
Category: Thought Leadership

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Instructors

Associate Professor Edward Wray-Bliss
Macquarie University
2 Courses57,520 learners
Professor Rebecca Mitchell
Macquarie University
4 Courses78,141 learners
Professor Jaco Lok
Macquarie University
2 Courses76,244 learners

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