Leading Innovation in the Workforce
Duration
- One semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- Online
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
Aims and objectives
The unit aims to enable students to demonstrate, evaluate and reflect on leadership and innovation in the workforce of the future. The focus of the unit is an in-depth understanding of how the practice of leadership to foster innovation in organisations is shaped by the context and vice versa. Specifically, the unit will discuss the ever-changing context of work (e.g., the fourth industrial revolution, flexible working, workforce transformation) and key approaches, strategies, and practices of innovative leadership (e.g., adaptive leadership, psychological safety, culture of innovation). The unit will equip students to be future-fluent leaders who are adept at leading both others and themselves through complicated, complex, and chaotic organisational challenges.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Swinburne Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning
Total Hours 150
12 x 12.5 hours per week
Assessment
Assignment 1 (Individual) 20-30%
Assignment 2 (Individual) 30-40%
Assignment 3 (Individual) 30-50%
Content
- The fourth industrial revolution
- Changing the competitive advantage
- The age of transformation
- Emerging futures of work
- Leadership and innovation in the new world of work
- Ambidextrous and complexity leadership
- Adaptive leadership
- Developing fluent future leaders
- Resilient leadership: building emotional, mental and spiritual agility
- Leading with vulnerability and mindfulness
- Psychological safety in the workplace
- Building a culture of creativity and innovation
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
Students are advised to check the unit outline in the relevant teaching period for appropriate textbooks and further reading.