Responsible Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Overview
The world of entrepreneurship is fraught with difficult decisions and responsibilities. Navigating it ethically requires information, strategic thinking, and self-awareness. This unit will equip future business leaders to create a positive impact through their attitudes and decision-making. It will cover business models, organisational culture, governance, intellectual property, and sustainability. Students will learn to tackle problems and make good choices with limited information. They will discover how to build resilience and critical thinking as they adopt an entrepreneurial mindset. Exploring the ideas of failure, self-understanding, and self-management will help to prepare them cognitively and emotionally for their future roles.
Requisites
01-June-2025
02-November-2025
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Apply coherent and advanced knowledge of building an entrepreneurial mindset to experiment with business and organisation design
- Investigate opportunities for applying an entrepreneurial mindset
- Critically reflect on and evaluate the challenges of entrepreneurship including leadership practices, styles and strategies in a for profit and social start-ups
- Critically reflect on and evaluate the challenges of entrepreneurship including leadership practices, styles and strategies in a for profit and social start-ups
- Critically reflect on failure and building entrepreneurial resilience
Teaching methods
All applicable locations
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
On Campus Class |
4 | 6 weeks | 24 |
Online Learning Activities |
1.33 | 6 weeks | 8 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Various |
19.67 | 6 weeks | 118 |
| Total | 150 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULOs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio | Individual | Pass/Fail | 1,2,3 |
| Project Report | Group | Pass/Fail | 3,4,5 |
Content
- Innovator's Playbook: Decoding the DNA of Entrepreneurial Thinking
- The Creative Crucible: Fusing Theory with Entrepreneurial Action
- Mindset Metamorphosis: Cultivating a Culture of Innovation
- Commanders of Change: Mastering Leadership Styles in the Entrepreneurial Arena
- Moral Compass in Motion: Navigating the Ethical Mazes of Entrepreneurship
- Social Entrepreneurship: Stakeholder Engagement and Social Impact
- Opportunity Architects: Building Bridges from Ideas to Execution
- Phoenix Rising: The Art of Turning Failure into Fuel
- Navigating the Entrepreneurial Storm: Strategies for Resilient Leadership
- Strategic Orchestration: Conducting the Symphony of Decision-Making
- The Reflective Entrepreneur: Harnessing Insight for Impact
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.