Become an adaptable leader, ready to face the challenges of the disrupted workplace. This Specialization will equip you with the skills to lead and navigate the ever-changing global environment we now work in. Through four themed courses you will: learn how to motivate staff with meaningful work (Become a Meaning Maker); better enable your organization to deliver on its strategic objectives (Know Your Organisation); harness your team’s diversity and use teamwork to innovate and increase your organization’s output (Know Your People), and strengthen your personal leadership skills (Adapt Your Leadership Style).



Leading: Human Resource Management and Leadership Specialization
Get ready for the Future of Work. Leading people and organisations to adapt, compete and succeed in a complex, global environment.



Instructors: Associate Professor Edward Wray-Bliss
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What you'll learn
- Analyse how to motivate staff with meaningful work 
- Understand how to enable your organisation to deliver on its strategic objectives 
- Examine the ways you can harness your team’s diversity and use teamwork to innovate and increase your organisation’s output 
- Evaluate leadership theories and develop your personal leadership skills 
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Skills you'll gain
- Organizational Strategy
- Team Leadership
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Diversity and Inclusion
- People Management
- Employee Engagement
- Team Management
- Strategic Thinking
- Brand Management
- Team Building
- Business Leadership
- Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- People Development
- Leadership Development
- Human Resource Strategy
- Leadership
- Branding
- Leadership and Management
- Organizational Leadership
- Organizational Structure
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Specialization - 4 course series
What you'll learn
- Define the key organisational capabilities required for a firm’s positioning strategy as the anchoring point for leading an organisation 
- Assess the degree of alignment between key capabilities and organisational architecture (culture, structure, people practices, systems) 
- Identify the organisational misalignment issues that a leader should prioritize and focus their change plan on 
- Develop and present concrete, suitable, and feasible organisational change recommendations that can resolve organisational misalignment issues 
Skills you'll gain
What you'll learn
- Explain how individuals may differ across a range of attributes including their personality, values, perceptions, and emotions 
- Analyse 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 
Skills you'll gain
What you'll learn
- Critically evaluate the similarities and differences between traditional and contemporary theories of leadership 
- Examine the complexities and challenges of day-to-day organisational life might require agile shifts between different leadership styles 
- Analyse how post-industrial forms of participative and self-organising leadership might enable or disable effective cross-functional teamwork 
Skills you'll gain
What you'll learn
- 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 organisational narratives 
- Evaluate, create and apply strategies to leverage meaning making through branding 
- Situate discussions of meaning making within broader social contexts and concerns. 
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No, but this Coursera Specialization provides a taster of the Global MBA learning experience, featuring high-quality video lectures, practice quizzes and discussion forums.
For the full graduate experience and access to exclusive content such as interviews with industry leaders, live webinars, expert panel discussions, faculty-graded assessments and AACSB-approved postgraduate qualification you should consider enrolling in Macquarie University’s Global MBA today!
Visit the Macquarie University's Global MBA degree page for more information.
There are four courses in this Specialization. Each course contains six modules and we estimate about 6-5 hours learner time on task per module. The courses are self-paced and time to complete can vary from learner to learner depending on their preferred pace.
No you do not need to take the courses in a specific order. What order you take the courses is entirely up to you!
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