Level up your leadership and expand your influence with value-based strategies from Nottingham Business School. Learn on demand and earn 10 UK level 7 credits.
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10 weeks
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$874
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From 7 Oct 2024
Values-Driven Problem Solving in Organisational Systems
Learn how to leverage your values, think systemically, and solve the ethical risks and dilemmas facing your organisation.
10 weeks
10 hours per week
Week 1
Values-driven visions for oneself, one’s organisation and the world
- Course overview and introductions
- Values-driven visions for oneself, one’s organisation and the world
- Values, Ethics and Morality
Week 2
Recognising stakeholders and ethical dilemmas
- Discerning Ethical Dilemmas
- Defining and Identifying Stakeholders
- Different Stakeholder Models
- Prioritising Stakeholders in Ethical Dilemmas
Week 3
Philosophical resources for values-driven problem-solving
- Your gut response
- Consequentialist and Non-consequentialist theories
- Rights-based Ethics
- Virtue-based Ethics
Week 4
Integrated decision-making tools
- Values-Driven Problem-Solving: An integrated Approach
- Applying the Integrated Decision Model
Week 5
Giving voice to values
- The Giving Voice to Values (GVV) approach to moral dilemmas
- Dealing with rationalisations and practicing GVV
- Formative Assessment
Week 6
Leadership definitions, approaches and theories
- Thinking about Leadership
- Shifts in Understandings of Leadership
- What Leadership is and How We Study it
- A Critical Consideration of Selected Leadership Theories
Week 7
Factors that influence how people lead and problem-solve
- Personal Factors
- Institutional Factors
- The Global Political Economy
Week 8
Understanding and managing ethical organisational culture
- Digging into Organisational Culture
- Habit and Habituation
- Organisational Ethical Risk
- Reporting Requirements
Week 9
Leading in organisational systems
- Introduction to Systems Thinking
- Leadership in Complex Systems
- Sustainability and Systemic Leadership
Week 10
Negotiating paradox in organisational ethical dilemmas
- What is Paradox
- Paradoxical Dynamics in Organisations
- Paradoxes in Leading and Tricks of the Trade
- Course Wrap-Up
After learning
At the end of this microcredential, you’ll submit your assessment and earn 10 UK level 7 credits and a formal certificate of completion. Credits are officially obtained once you successfully complete your assessment.
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