CORE132 Leadership for the 21st Century

Faculty of Economics and Administration
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. Ing. Mgr. Jakub Procházka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Ondráček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Petr Smutný, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Ladislava Kuchynková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Ing. Mgr. Jakub Procházka, Ph.D.
Department of Business Management – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Vlasta Radová
Supplier department: Department of Business Management – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Prerequisites
!FAKULTA(ESF)&&(! MPV_KDVS Lectures on the History of PS )&& !TYP_STUDIA(ND) && (!FORMA(C) || !FORMA(K) || !FORMA(D) || !FORMA(R) || !FORMA(Z))
The course is one of the MUNI CORE courses. It is intended for students of Bachelor's programmes taught in the Czech language. The course cannot be taken by students of programmes focused on economic disciplines (ECON MUNI students).
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 90 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/90, only registered: 19/90, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/90
Course objectives
Students will learn about leadership and managing people from multiple perspectives. Leadership will be introduced as a topic for research across various social science disciplines, as a phenomenon affecting society and its development, as a part of everyday life, and as a tool for accomplishing goals within communities and organizations. The main emphasis is on leadership in the context of work, on the effectiveness of business leaders, and on the impact of leadership on employee performance, teamwork, satisfaction and mental well-being. The aim of the course is to help students understand why leadership is important to society and organisations, what influences leader emergence and leader success, and the students will also develop their leadership competencies relevant for taking the leadership roles in their future jobs.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the students will be able to:
- Describe leadership as a process.
- Explain the influence of key factors affecting leadership effectiveness.
- Describe desirable and undesirable leadership styles and their impact on an organization and identify a leader's leadership style based on a questionnaire or observable behavior.
- Describe current global leadership trends.
- Critically evaluate the ethical risks associated with leading people.
- Identify individual strengths and weaknesses in context of leading people.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction of the subject, alignment of expectations, history of leadership, leadership in business, politics and religion
  • 2. Leadership as a trait, gender in leadership
  • 3. Leadership styles: How a good leader behaves
  • 4. Transformational leadership
  • 5. Toxic leadership
  • 6. Leadership measurement and development
  • 7. Selection of leaders
  • 8. Leadership and employee mental health
  • 9. Leadership in a global world: Leading international teams
  • 10. Practical skills for leading people
  • 11. Ethics in the leadership role
  • 12. Final colloquium
Literature
    required literature
  • ROBBINS, Stephen P. and Tim JUDGE. Organizational behavior. Nineteenth edition. Harlow: Pearson, 2024, 798 stran. ISBN 9781292450025. info
  • PROCHÁZKA, Jakub, Martin VACULÍK and Petr SMUTNÝ. Psychologie efektivního leadershipu (The Psychology of Effective Leadership). Praha: Grada, 2013, 152 pp. Psyché. ISBN 978-80-247-4646-3. URL info
Teaching methods
Lecture, demonstration, self-assessment questionnaire, model situation, practical example, teamwork, team discussion, self-reflection
Assessment methods
Midterm test (10%), participation in lecture activities (10%), solving a model situation (10%), group assignment and colloquium discussion (40%), final test (30%).
Detailed information on course completion is provided in the Interactive Syllabus.
Náhradní absolvování
If students want to take the course during an internship abroad (eg. Erasmus), they are obliged to inform the course guarantor by email at least one week before the introductory lecture. Subsequently, they can take the course remotely without attending lectures. In this case, students cannot receive points for activities in lectures. They will complete an individual written assignment instead of the final colloquium discussion. It is the students responsibility to find the team to complete the group assignment.

Due to the nature of the course, it is recommended that students take the course in a semester when they can attend lectures in person.

Language of instruction
Czech
Study support
https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/econ/jaro2025/CORE132/index.qwarp?mode=edit
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
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