Leadership Skills and Team management [BB606H] BBA - VI Sem. Syllabus for DAVV Indore Affiliated Institutions

BB606H                              Leadership Skills and Team management

Unit-I Nature and importance of leadership: The meaning of leadership, leadership as a partnership, leadership vs. management, the impact of leadership on organisational performance, leadership roles, the satisfaction and frustration of being a leader, Traits, motives and characteristics of leaders: personality traits of effective leaders, leadership motives- cognitive factors of leadership.

Unit-II Effective Leadership behavior and attitudes: Task-related attitudes and behavior, relationship oriented attitudes and behaviors, super leadership:-leading others to lead themselves,360 degree feedback for fine-tuning leadership approaches.

Unit-III Leadership styles: The leadership continuum, classical leadership style, the boss-centered vs. employee-centered leadership continuum, the autocratic participative free rein continuum, the leadership grid style, the entrepreneurial leadership style, gender difference in leadership style, selecting the best leadership style.

Unit-IV Developing team work: Team leadership vs. solo leadership, advantage and disadvantage of group work and team work, the leaders role in the team based organization, leader behavior and attitude the foster teamwork leadership development , succession and future: development through self awareness and selfdiscipline, leadership development programmes.

Unit-V Process of Change : Introduction ,drivers of change in business, alternative strategies of change ,process of change, change models ,phases of panned change , resistance to change overcoming resistance to change Principles of change.

Unit-VI Change agents : Introduction, role of change agent ,competencies of change agents, cognitive competencies , functional ,inter-personal competencies, problem solving decision skills.

BOOKS: 

1.   Radha R. Sharma, Change Management, Tata Mcgraw Hill, New Delhi

2.   Stephen P. Robbins, Organization behaviour, Pearson Education, New Delhi 

Course Objective: The objective of this course is to develop an insight and understanding of  Leadership Skills and Team Management

Examination Scheme: Students shall be evaluated on two components, internal and end semester examination. The Semester Exam shall be worth 80 marks, it will have two sections A and B. Section A worth 60 marks will comprise of seven theory questions, out of which a student will be required to attempt any four questions. Section B worth 20 marks will contain a case.