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New Venture Leadership

Unit Code: HEI611

Duration	Contact Hours	Campus	Prerequisite	Corequisite
One Teaching Period	36 hours	Hawthorn	Nil	Nil

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

Aims & Objectives:

This unit addresses a systematic way of thinking about, and analysing aspects of leadership, organisation behaviour and key management practices utilising wherever possible the expertise of the students. The unit forms part of stage 1 of the MEI, assessing new ventures and opportunities. It continues in stage 2 with Managing the Growing Business.

After completion of this unit students should be able to:

have an enhanced capacity to apply their knowledge of self in relation to business/enterprise development and related organisation dynamics;
work more effectively in teams and in leading groups and teams;
appraise critically, the contribution of leadership, key management practices and organisation behaviour to the development of an entrepreneurial enterprise;
use the selected frames of human resources, structural, political and symbolic for analysing the inter-relatedness of structure and behaviour in organisational settings;
develop the knowledge and skills related to new venture leadership and behavior including intuitive decision making

Teaching Methods:

Classroom, self reflection journals and online delivery, via a combination of presentations, discussions, case studies, field work and practical activities and, where appropriate, experiential activities. Incorporating ongoing innovative entrepreneurship teaching pedagogies.

Assessment:

Class Participation (in class graded activity) 10-20%
Individual reflection of team participant and self learning 5-15%
Individual project and presentation 30-40%
Group project and presentation 30-40%
Group article presentation 5-10%

Generic Skills Outcomes:

Swinburne University of Technology works to produce higher education graduates who are capable in their chosen profession. Learners bring to Swinburne University of Technology a diverse wealth of experiences and graduate with individual understandings, abilities and attitudes.

Within this context it is the intent of unit HEI611 New Venture Leadership that students develop the following key generic skills:

Leadership skills
Teamwork skills
Analysis skills
Problem solving skills
Communication skills
Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
Ability to work independently

Content:

Individual and organisational values and ethics/ codes of behaviour
Understanding of self, intuition and the implications for decision making, team behaviour and conflict resolution,
Group and team leadership (students complete a self awareness/intuition questionnaire)
Key Management components of a business
Leadership models

Textbooks:

Bygrave, W & Zacharakis, A. 2008 Entrepreneurship 1st Edition or equivalent.

References:

A variety of references available in the unit outline.