This module examines modern leadership theories and management frameworks that influence team effectiveness. Learners explore McGregor’s Theory X and Y, Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid, and various leadership styles to understand how assumptions, influence, and motivation drive organizational culture and performance in Agile environments.

This module explores the stages of team development (forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning) and emotional dynamics that affect performance. It emphasizes the importance of communication, conflict resolution, diversity of thought, and leadership strategies for sustaining high-performing, collaborative teams in complex projects.

This module introduces classical and modern organizational theories, comparing bureaucratic, mechanistic, and organic structures. It integrates Agile principles, scientific management, and matrix models to analyze how authority, integration, and culture affect adaptability, collaboration, and innovation in contemporary systems engineering.