Leading: Human Resource Management and Leadership Specialization 

offered by Macquarie University

Define the key organizational capabilities required for a firm’s positioning strategy as the anchoring point for leading an organization

Assess the degree of alignment between key capabilities and organizational architecture (culture, structure, people practices, systems)

Identify the organizational misalignment issues that a leader should prioritize and focus their change plan on

Develop and present concrete, suitable, and feasible organizational change recommendations that can resolve organizational misalignment issues

Explain how individuals may differ across a range of attributes including their personality, values, perceptions, and emotions

Analyze the implications of workplace diversity, including challenges and potential benefits

Explain the motivational characteristics of work and apply these to job design

Analyze the role of team dynamics and composition in the team performance

Critically evaluate the similarities and differences between traditional and contemporary theories of leadership

Examine the complexities and challenges of day-to-day organizational life might require agile shifts between different leadership styles

Analyze how post-industrial forms of participative and self-organizing leadership might enable or disable effective cross-functional teamwork

Evaluate approaches to influencing and creating meaning at work

Evaluate and apply approaches to meaning-making that play a role in aligning employee buy-in of organizational narratives

Evaluate, create and apply strategies to leverage meaning-making through branding

Situate discussions of meaning-making within broader social contexts and concerns