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Semester Project III - Leadership and Pitches at RSU Business Incubator
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:45
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SBUEK_187 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Economics; Other economic and management sub-sectors | Target Audience: | Business Management | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Kristaps Zaļais | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 5 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 10 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Practical Entrepreneurship. Business Research Methodology. Business English and Concise Writing. Microeconomics. Macroeconomics. Accounting. Finance. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To develop students' leadership skills, business presentation skills and business idea development skills. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Leadership history. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Key features of a leader. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Importance and application of emotional intelligence in everyday life. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Creating a leader profile. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | A story of a leader's experience. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Differences between a leader and a manager. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Leadership challenge – solving a practical example. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Decision making. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Motivating and inspiring. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | A practical example of leadership failure. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Preparation of a Pitch on the business idea and plan developed in the 1st semester. | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 12 | Presentation of the business idea (Pitch) to investors at RSU Business Incubator. | Classes | 2.00 | other | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Leadership history. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Key features of a leader. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Importance and application of emotional intelligence in everyday life. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Creating a leader profile. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | A story of a leader's experience. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Differences between a leader and a manager. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Leadership challenge – solving a practical example. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Decision making. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Motivating and inspiring. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | A practical example of leadership failure. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Three case studies in groups that will require presentations and written answers. Two workshop texts followed by seminars with test questions at the end. Preparation of business idea presentation and preparation for presentation. Presentation of business idea to investors at RSU Business Incubator. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Attendance of lectures and classes - 10%. Activity and quality of independent work - 40%. Final work - 30%. Presentation of the business idea to investors at RSU Business Incubator - 20%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | The course will provide knowledge of leadership, its development and history, as well as emotional knowledge. Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to name various types of leadership and practical examples of leadership. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Upon completion of the course, students will have skills in leadership, emotional intelligence and they will know how to apply it in different life situations. In addition, they will be able to distinguish between leadership and management. The course will also develop the ability to motivate and inspire team members, group members, etc. Students will develop their business idea presentation skills in a real and simulated business environment at RSU Business Incubator. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Through the group work included in the course, students will develop the competences required to work in and take on different roles within groups. The course will require a number of case studies, which will enable students to use competences of their own, their group members and other groups and exemplified competences. Students will understand the importance, the pace and the high potential of presenting a business idea. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | R. Ashkenas, B. Manville. The Fundamentals of Leadership Still Haven’t Changed | ||||||||
| 2 | HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership | ||||||||
| 3 | S. Sinek. Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't | ||||||||
| 4 | J.C. Maxvell. Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace | ||||||||
| 5 | T. Bradberry, J. Greaves. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 | ||||||||
| 6 | A. Algahtani. Are Leadership and Management Different? A Review | ||||||||
| 7 | Studiju gaitā izmantotā un papildus literatūra sadarbībā ar Studiju darba vadītāju | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | S. Mohammadpour. Authentic Leadership: A New Approach to Leadership (Describing the Mediatory Role of Psychological Capital in the Relationship between Authentic Leadership and Intentional Organizational Forgetting) | ||||||||
| 2 | A. Vance. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future | ||||||||
| 3 | D. Dudley. Everyday leadership | ||||||||
| 4 | F. C. Lunenburg. Leadership versus Management: A Key Distinction - At Least in Theory | ||||||||
