06260246 - Team Management & Leadership

Acquiring knowledge on team management and leadership with both critical and operational perspective.
Therefore, team work is highly valorized in this optional unit in a learning by doing pedagogy.
You will alternate classical knowledge transmission, team works (oral group presentations), live experiences and experience feedbacks.

1. First part

- Understanding the profession of manager: her roles, skills, sources of authority, and her styles according to specific situations and organizations
- Understanding what team management is: collective action, conflict management, supporting individuals, enhancing team work…
- Addressing routine and critical issues of management to better manage and anticipate potential risks, e.g.:

• Rugby team management and training
• Remote team building
• Motivation and team management; motivation and remote work and management
• Managing a conflict

 

2. Second part

- Understanding leadership: differences and similarities with management and team management; from authoritarian to servant and fluid leadership (with Mary Parker Follet).
- Providing with a critical vision on leadership: narcissism and toxic leadership; reflexivity and philosopher (with lessons of James March).
- Addressing routine and critical issues of leadership, e.g.:

• Sharing your vision and inspiring action;
• Acquiring emotional intelligence;
• The collapse of sensemaking in a team and how to prevent it
• Management and leadership in humanitarian context.

• Managers, not MBAs, Mintzberg
• On Leadership, March & Weill
• “Don Quixote's Lessons for Leadership”, https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/don-quixoteslessons-leadership
• Dynamic Administration, The collective papers of Mary Parler Follet, Metcalf & Urwick
• The Oxford Handbook of Management, Adrian Wilkinson, Steven J. Armstrong, and Michael Lounsbury
• The practice of management, Peter Drucker
• Reference authors such as: Kets de Vries (Profession: leader; Leaders, Fools and Imposters;
• Organizations on the Couch : A Clinical Perspective on Organizational Dynamics », European
• Management Journal, vol. 22, n° 2, p. 183-200); Blake & Mouton; Blanchard & Hersey; Lewin; Goleman

Reviews such as Harvard Business Review or research journals.

• Written exam, 2H: Reflection on a subject (75%)
• Group work (25%)

 

MODALITES PEDAGOGIQUES / NATURE DES SUPPORTS
Classical course materials
Group work and oral presentations
Professional experience feedback
Online team building experience