Responsible Leadership
Key Learning Outcomes
- Critically evaluate leadership theories, to apply theories on leadership in different contextual situations
- Identify challenges with regard to leadership in practice and investigate in responsibility as guiding ethical principle for leadership
- Create an ethical framework of understanding leadership related to business, societal and cultural environments
- Draw upon learning contents from across the course to create meaningful and values-based statements on leadership within their own professional contexts.
The learning outcomes are embedded in the overall objective to allow participants to understand and engage creatively with the impact of institutional transformation based on ethics for the benefit of their institutions, companies and of society as a whole.
Job prospect
Successful participants habitually work in public or private professional sectors. Responsible leadership is considered as one of the few key competences decisive for all professional development initiatives and is considered as one of the key assets for employability.
Contributors to the course
 | Prof. Dr. Simon Robinson Prof. Dr, Professor of Ethics at Leeds Beckett University and Director of its Centre for Leadership and Governance |  | Meggy Kantert Consultant, Coach in Organisational Management; Intercultural Training; Project Management |
Qualification Awarded
Certificate of Completion upon fulfilment of all qualification requirements, in particular the final assignments. A certificate supplement with the indication of the achieved learning outcomes according to the syllabus and the area of the submitted final assignment can be established.
| Module 1 | Leadership |
| Module 2 | Ethical Leadership Theories |
| Module 3 | Responsible Leadership |
| Module 4 | Agency |
| Module 5 | Accountability and shared creation |
| Module 6 | Irresponsible Leadership |
| Module 7 | Leadership and difference: dialogue, democracy, governance and ethics |
| Module 8 | Integrity and the moral psychology of leadership |
| Module 9 | Cross cultural issues and leadership 1 |
| Module 10 | Cross cultural issues and leadership 2 |
| Module 11 | Leadership in literature and the arts |
| Module 12 | Leadership and peace-building |
Registration and Fees
| Certification Track | |
| Video | ✔ |
| Readings | ✔ |
| Downloadable course content | ✔ |
| Final quiz | ✔ |
| Certificate of completion | ✔ |
| Registration Fee 300 USD/CHF | |
| Special fee for Globethics.net Consortium Members 250 USD/CHF | |
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Entry Requirements
The registration for this online course is organised according to the enrolment regulations and the policy on entry requirements of Globethics.net in accordance with the official course programme documentation as approved and made public by the institution's governing bodies.
Specific Accreditation of Prior Learning Arrangements
In this online course Globethics.net lays particular emphasis on the practical professional experiences participants bring into the learning journey. Teaching and/or administrative experiences in higher education institutions are considered as assets for participation. Experiential learning of this type will be treated as part of Globethics.net's Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) as outlined in its official documentation, in particular in its Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) handbook and in the corresponding policy document. The policy document explains the procedure and criteria for recognition.
Qualification Requirements and Regulations
In order to obtain the qualification awarded at the end of the online course, participants have to complete the module according to the syllabus and fulfill all requirements, in particular they will have to submit a final written assignment and a final online discussion forum contribution.
Qualification Level
Access to Further Studies
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