7LMD Leadership and Management Development

Module Overview

Leadership and management development, LMD, is a unit within the CIPD Level 7 module that mainly deals with the development leaders at different levels of the organisation. There are different levels of leadership and management within the organisation. These levels range from seniority and being from the senior managers within the organisation to the first-line managers.The unit focuses on providing the knowledge, both in practice and theoretical approaches that help to understand these different levels of management including the roles and responsibilities of managers in the different levels and the responsibilities that each manager has within the workplace.

This unit is an advanced unit within the CIPD module, implying that it is intended to fine-tune the knowledge of the learners on critical aspects revolving around organisational leadership and management. The learners are guided to understand the complex nature of the relationship between leadership and management and the critical professional skills that the leaders should have in achieving the intended performance within the workplace.

Suitability of the Unit

The unit is highly suitable for different groups of people within the workplace. In the modern organisational setting, all employees are developed to be leaders within their specific areas of operations. This process ensures that employees are developed with the understanding of the critical skills that they should implement to solve the problems they face in their daily lives, especially in the operational levels of management.

However, more essentially, it is suitable for HR professionals who are responsible for making the operational, tactical and strategic decisions within the organisation. This provision covers the senior managers, first-line managers and leaders at the operational levels of the organisation. Additionally, it is essential for professionals who are tasked with the duty of developing of the career path for the employees as well as those seeking to enhance their career, as it provides an advanced understanding of the critical elements related to their professional practice.

While  benefiting the management and leaders of organisations, it is also important for the external HR consultants such as human resource business partners. These are individuals who make critical contributions in the setting of policies and practices within the organisations. This unit provides them with the guidance that helps them to up a suitable approach to leadership and management development within the organisation. The employees can also pursue this unit as a preparation for future leadership responsibilities that they may encounter within their organisations.

Unit objectives

Some of the main objectives that these units seek to achieve include:

• Help learners to understand the concepts of leadership and management

• Apply concepts of leadership and management to organisational social, environmental and multicultural context

• Evaluate and select the best approach to leadership and management with a focus on the needs of the organisation,

• Analyse the available approaches that can be used to formulate and implement the leadership management strategies designed to meet current and future needs of the organisation

• Be able to design add evaluate leadership and management development strategies that support the organisational needs strategies and plans.

• Facilitate collaborative strategies that support partnership in boosting leadership and development management

• Be able to effectively evaluate leadership and management of organisations from the international context.

• Boost ethical and professional understanding in commitment to personal and professional development, especially in line with leadership and management

Unit Content

This unit has a wide area of coverage that boosts understanding of the elements of leadership and management. However, the content can be broken down into smaller tenets that help to better understand the content of the course or module.

Leadership and Management

This area of learning in 7LMD focuses on helping the learners gain a theoretical understanding of the elements of leadership and management. This area covers the roles and functions of leaders within the organisational context as well as the required skills that the leaders need to exhibit in achieving the desired goals and objectives in terms of accomplishing the organisational goals. The unit further provides existing leadership theories to support activities within the organisation.

Development Strategies

Learners need to understand the role that development strategies play in supporting the organisational strategies and activities. In these areas of learning, the learners are introduced to the evaluation models such as Kirkpatrick’s model, which guide in the understanding of the needs of the leaders within the organisation and identification of learning strategies that help the learners to understand the critical areas of development that are required to achieve the required organisational goals and objectives. This area is important for learners as it builds their understanding of the context for organisational leadership and management development strategies and needs.

Process of Leadership and Development Management

The process of leadership and management development is critical to professionals in helping to develop and build the leaders and managers to the desired levels of performance. This area of learning is wide as it focuses on diverse aspects that include the analysis of organisational leadership and management development needs, identification of potential learning strategies, implementation of the strategies, and the process of evaluating the efficiency of the learning strategies that have been put in place.

The process of leadership and management development is important in facilitating ethical leadership. Through these strategies, the learners are able to understand the need for ethical leadership and the need to develop the desired ethical skills and practices.

The International Context of Leadership and Management

Professionals need to understand the role that the internationalisation of corporate and organisational practices has in influencing the performance of the organisation within global markets. As such, the unit covers the international and global context of leadership and management as well as understanding the need for development leaders within the organisation to achieve this desired standards of performance within the global markets for the organisation.

Evaluation

The course is evaluated in the process of delivery through the virtual learning environment and one-to-one interaction with assessors. However, at the end of the course, an assessment is used to evaluate the performance of the learners. The assessment comprises a written assessment and work-based templates that show evidence of understanding of the learned concepts and principles.