Global Leadership and Human Resource Management MasterTrack®

Designed for the future-focused professional, Global Leadership and Human Resource Management MasterTrack® equips students with the right tools and frameworks to lead effectively in a rapidly changing environment. This MasterTrack is comprised of four Macquarie University micro-units: Know your people; Know your organisation; Adapt your leadership style; and Become a meaning maker. Students get access to renowned academics and industry leaders and a diverse and professional cohort, as well as premium features including live interactive webinars, staff-graded and moderated assessments, podcasts, and other high-engagement learning activities. Solve real-world problems by collaborating with a diverse cohort of students across the globe. Students are challenged to maximise leadership skills and test the knowledge accumulated throughout the four micro-units. Learning Outcomes: • Select and apply a range of theories and methodologies to enhance employee experience, motivation and performance • Develop and analyse strategies for managing individuals and teams to best position organisations in their response to strategic opportunities and threats • Evaluate and manage individual differences, diversity and inclusion in order to advance organisational sustainability and success • Analyse 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, systems) • Evaluate the organisational misalignment issues that a leader should prioritise and focus their change plan on • Develop and professionally present concrete, suitable, and feasible organisational change recommendations that can resolve organisational misalignment issues • Critically evaluate the similarities and differences between traditional and contemporary theories of leadership and identify the practices of established leadership theories • Examine how the interruptive 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 and followership might enable or disable effective cross-functional performance • Develop recommendations as to how leadership theories and models might need to evolve to optimise cross-functional performance • Evaluate approaches to influencing and creating meaning at work. • Synthesise and apply concepts related to the role of visionary leadership and identity in meaning making in complex and dynamic organisational contexts • Analyse and apply approaches to meaning making that play a role in aligning employee buy-in of organisational narratives • Create strategies to leverage meaning making through branding • Situate discussions of meaning making within broader social contexts and concerns. Delivery Mode: Online Learning Activities: • Self-directed online video lessons, readings, and academic articles • Case studies, peer collaboration, online class exercises • Practice exercises, applied examples, and knowledge check quizzes Assessments: • Report: Purposeful meaning making • Case study analyses • Analysis: Leadership in action The volume of learning is 300 hours (75 hours per micro-unit). The four micro-units completed in the Global Leadership and Human Resource Management MasterTrack® provide 20 credit points at AQF level 8 and can be credited towards Macquarie Business School’s Global Master of Business Administration degree.