GED2827

Leaders and followers

Associate Professor P C Gronn

12 points
* 3 hours per week
* Second semester
* Clayton

Objectives Upon successful completion of this subject, students should have a better understanding of human behaviour in a variety of group contexts; the group and situational determinants of leadership and demands on leaders; typical forms of leader-follower relations and the bases of followers' attraction to leaders.

Synopsis This subject provides a framework for the analysis of leader-follower relations. An examination will be made of leading and following in varieties of administrative regimes, orders and structures. As part of a comparative study of educational and non-educational leadership the subject will focus on the bases of allegiance, obedience and bonding between leaders and their followers. Detailed analyses will then be made of group dynamics and consultative processes, teams and team leadership, work styles, humour, mateship and friendship, habits and skills of selected administrators and leaders with particular reference to the individual, interpersonal and institutional consequences of different patterns of work performance. Finally, the implications will be drawn for systems of leadership recruitment, succession, selection, induction and organisational learning, particularly in schools and other educational settings.

Assessment Two written essays (3000 words each): 50% each