DRE 6001 Research on Leadership
DRE 6001 Research on Leadership
This course targets research on the characteristics of effective leaders and the conditions for effective leadership. The central premises are that leader effectiveness is dependent on leader characteristics, task characteristics, and contextual influences while the concept leader effectiveness itself is multifaceted. Challenges in this field is that the influence mechanisms themselves have not always been clearly understood and that a large number of theories have been postulated over the years. Other challenges are lack of adequate conceptual foundations and critique of survey based methods. Despite this, leadership research has made progress during the last decades through an emphasis on leader traits, dyadic leadership theory, multi-source measurement, and other measurement developments, among other things related to Natural Language Processing Theory (NLP). Several developments in these areas will be emphasized in this course in addition to a focus on research design issues. Thus, the course aims at giving students an advanced theoretical basis for some of the scientific problems that are at the frontiers of leadership research today.
- Participants should become acquainted with central perspectives in past and present research on leadership.
- Participants should develop knowledge about strategic leadership and upper echelons theory.
- Participants should develop knowledge about advances in contemporary theories in the leader trait and leader behavior traditions and in theories on charismatic and transformational leadership.
- Participants should develop in depth knowledge about central methods, like 360 degree leader evaluations, semantic analyses (NLP) of leadership constructs, and about strong and weak research designs in leadership research.
- Participants should become able to recognize research opportunities in this field, e.g., as regards influence mechanisms and more.
Candidates will learn how to apply theories of leadership in organizational research.
Candidates will learn how to consider relevant research designs in leadership research.
Candidates will learn how to critically evaluate scientific research on leadership according to current theoretical and methodological standards.
Candidates should consider research on leadership as an important source for individual, group, and organizational effectiveness.
- Leader traits and leader behaviors
- Dangerous leadership. Dark side.
- Transformational and charismatic leadership.
- Strategic and upper echelons theories
- Leadership development.
- Measurement issues.
- 360 degree leader evaluations
- Research design issues.
Lectures
Discussions
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Enrollment in a PhD programme is a general requirement for participation in PhD courses at BI Norwegian Business School.
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Basic knowledge in Organizational Behavior.
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Submission PDF Exam/hand-in semester: First Semester Weight: 100 Grouping: Individual Duration: 2 Month(s) Comment: Individual Paper/Essay (12 pages) The paper should be original work, and be written specifically for this course. Exam code: DRE60011 Grading scale: Pass/fail Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
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Group work / Assignments | 95 Hour(s) | Specified learning activities (including reading). |
Student's own work with learning resources | 40 Hour(s) | Autonomous student learning (including the written course paper). |
Other in classroom | 5 Hour(s) | One class presentation. |
Teaching | 30 Hour(s) |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 6 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload of at least 160 hours.