Luther Varsity in Southern Africa
A Place of Academic and Professional Excellence
Leadership Development
NQF 4 | SAQA ID: 50081 | 160 Credits
The qualification is aimed at councillors, leaders and municipal managers in local government. The typical student will be an employee in local government, wishing to gain the competence to fulfill the requirements of his/her current job obligations or a municipal employee or councillor wishing to gain a qualification so as to advance his/her career opportunities. In addition, persons seeking future employment in the local government sector may choose to complete this qualification.
Office bearers and employees at local government level are responsible for managing the provision of services to the community. The `South African Constitution empowers the community to demand that services are met and that government office bearers and managers have the skills to take reasonable measures in providing services.
Through this programme, the student will be able to demonstrate an understanding of leadership skills in a specific sector or context, as well as to apply innovative and creative strategies and visionary thinking.
The student will further be able to apply leadership skills to enhance service delivery, using knowledge of ethical standards in a leadership role to enhance professionalism and governance.
PURPOSE AND RATIONALE OF THE QUALIFICATION
Purpose:
The purpose of the qualification is to enable qualifying students to apply leadership competencies to ensure service excellence.
Students will develop competencies to utilise leadership skills to enhance service delivery in a specific sector or context. Individual students will benefit through enhancing their personal competencies, knowledge and skills so as to be able to complete tasks required in their employment contracts and by legislation, relating to:
- Applying emotional intelligence in a leadership context.
- Motivating self and others.
- Applying leadership to relationship management.
- Applying visionary thinking skills in leadership problem-solving contexts.
Developing service culture of a specific sector.
Rationale:
The qualification is aimed at councillors, leaders and municipal managers in local government. The typical student will be an employee in local government, wishing to gain the competence to fulfill the requirements of his/her current job obligations or a municipal employee or councillor wishing to gain a qualification so as to advance his/her career opportunities. In addition, persons seeking future employment in the local government sector may choose to complete this qualification.
Office bearers and employees at local government level are responsible for managing the provision of services to the community. The Constitution of the South Africa (Act 108 of 1996) section 27 (1) states that all South Africans have the right to access health care services; sufficient food and water and social security. Section 27(2) requires the state to take reasonable measures within its available resources to provide these basic human rights. The state is also responsible for providing education for the community and managing all of the country’s resources. The Constitution therefore allows the community to demand that services are met and that government office bearers and managers have the skills to take reasonable measures in providing services.
The Exit Level Outcomes contained in this qualification are based on competencies required for people dealing with integrated development planning in a municipal context. The outcomes have been designed to fall into 8 broad areas of competence which will enable students to:
- Deal with issues and provide strategic leadership at various levels including community.
- Build consensus amongst diverse groupings of people with various interests.
- Apply innovative, creative and flexible strategies and thinking when dealing with community issues and needs.
- Build trust between the councillors, officials, community and various competing interest groups while maintaining personal integrity.
- Manage conflict.
- Demonstrate the commitment and tenacity to achieve set objectives.
Communicate with conviction, confidence and integrity at all levels and constituencies.
The qualification aims to provide opportunities for applied competencies in these areas and provides a basis for further qualifications in municipal and public sector management at higher levels on the NQF.
Students will build on their existing competencies. The competencies in this qualification will assist students in their role in organizational leadership and will also provide competencies which are transferable to the any sector.
The Exit Level Outcomes highlight many of the integrated and intergovernmental skills required within any sector. Such skills and knowledge are geared towards enabling councillors, leaders and municipal managers to operate effectively and successfully in a demanding environment. Therefore, the Exit Level Outcomes and related Assessment Criteria highlight competences related to achieving leadership development for any sector.
The FETC: Leadership Development Level 4 should produce knowledgeable, multi-skilled workers who are able to contribute to enhanced service delivery in any sector or context. It should provide the means for current workers to receive recognition of prior learning, to upgrade their skills and achieve a nationally recognized qualification. It will ensure that the quality of education and training in the any sector is enhanced and of a world-class standard.
LEARNING ASSUMED TO BE IN PLACE AND RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING
It is assumed that students are competent in:
- Communication at NQF Level 3.
- Mathematical Literacy at NQF Level 3.
- Computer Literacy at NQF Level 3, or the equivalent thereof.
Recognition of Prior Learning:
The structure of this Unit Standard based Qualification makes the Recognition of Prior Learning possible. Student and Assessor will jointly decide on methods to determine prior learning and competence in the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes implicit in the Qualification and the associated Unit Standards. Recognition of Prior Learning will be done by means of an Integrated Assessment as mentioned in the previous paragraph.
This Recognition of Prior Learning may allow for:
- Accelerated access to further learning at this or higher levels on the NQF.
- Gaining of credits towards a Unit Standard in this Qualification.
Obtaining this Qualification in whole or in part.
All recognition of Prior Learning is subject to quality assurance by the relevant ETQA or an ETQA that has a Memorandum of Understanding with the relevant ETQA.
Access to the qualification:
There is open access to this qualification bearing in mind the learning assumed to be in place.
QUALIFICATION RULES
The Qualification consists of a Fundamental, a Core and an Elective Component.
To be awarded the Qualification, students are required to obtain a minimum of 160 credits as detailed below.
Fundamental Component:
The Fundamental Component consists of Unit Standards in:
- Mathematical Literacy at NQF Level 4 to the value of 16 credits.
- Communication at NQF Level 4 in a First South African Language to the value of 20 credits.
- Communication in a Second South African Language at NQF Level 3 to the value of 20 credits.
It is compulsory therefore for students to do Communication in two different South African languages, one at NQF Level 4 and the other at NQF Level 3.
All Unit Standards in the Fundamental Component are compulsory.
Core Component:
The Core Component consists of Unit Standards to the value of 88 credits all of which are compulsory.
Elective Component:
The Elective Component consists of Unit Standards to the value of 183 credits. Students are to choose Unit Standards to the minimum of 16 credits and a minimum of three Unit Standards. With the approval of the relevant ETQA, students may choose any registered Unit Standard which contributes to the improvement of their work performance or in which they have a particular interest.
EXIT LEVEL OUTCOMES
On achieving this qualification, the student will:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of leadership skills in a specific sector or context.
2. Apply innovative and creative strategies and visionary thinking skills in developing and implementing strategic planning.
3. Apply leadership skills to enhance service delivery.
4. Apply knowledge of ethical standards in a leadership role.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of the role that emotional intelligence plays in leadership.
| ID | UNIT STANDARD TITLE | NQF LEVEL | CREDITS |
Core | Apply knowledge of community issues in relation to development projects | 3 | 4 | |
Core | Apply the Batho Pele principles to own work role and context | 3 | 4 | |
Core | Apply communication principles, strategies and processes in a leadership role | 4 | 6 | |
Core | Apply leadership skills to relationship management | 4 | 8 | |
Core | Apply the concept and principles of knowledge management to leadership | 4 | 8 | |
Core | Demonstrate and apply knowledge of the ethical standards in the Public Sector | 4 | 4 | |
Core | Develop and apply a service culture to a leadership role | 4 | 8 | |
Core | Explain and apply legislation and policies applicable to leadership in a specific sector or context | 4 | 10 | |
Core | Explain and apply the concept, principles and theories of motivation in a leadership context | 4 | 6 | |
Core | Plan strategically to improve business performance | 4 | 4 | |
Core | Analyse leadership and related theories in a work context | 5 | 8 | |
Core | Analyse the role that emotional intelligence plays in leadership | 5 | 8 | |
Core | Apply visionary leadership to develop strategy | 5 | 10 | |
Fundamental | Accommodate audience and context needs in oral communication | 3 | 5 | |
Fundamental | Interpret a variety of literary texts | 3 | 5 | |
Fundamental | Interpret and use information from texts | 3 | 5 | |
Fundamental | Write texts for a range of communicative contexts | 3 | 5 | |
Fundamental | Apply knowledge of statistics and probability to critically interrogate and effectively communicate findings on life related problems | 4 | 6 | |
Fundamental | Engage in sustained oral communication and evaluate spoken texts | 4 | 5 | |
Fundamental | Read analyse and respond to a variety of texts | 4 | 5 | |
Fundamental | Represent analyse and calculate shape and motion in 2-and 3-dimensional space in different contexts | 4 | 4 | |
Fundamental | Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal, business, national and international issues | 4 | 6 | |
Fundamental | Use the writing process to compose texts required in the business environment | 4 | 5 | |
Fundamental | Write for a wide range of contexts | 4 | 5 | |
Elective | Identify basic employment rights and responsibilities and deal appropriately with own grievances and disputes | 3 | 4 | |
Elective | Apply a range of project management tools | 4 | 8 | |
Elective | Describe and apply the management functions of an organization | 4 | 10 | |
Elective | Apply accounting principles and procedures in the preparation of reports and decision making | 5 | 15 | |
Elective | Apply advanced principles of complexity theory to organisational transformation | 5 | 12 | |
Elective | Apply and explain the generic business process and value chain model | 5 | 12 | |
Elective | Apply principles of risk management | 5 | 8 | |
Elective | Apply the basic principles of issue management | 5 | 8 | |
Elective | Apply the principles of budgeting within a municipality | 5 | 15 | |
Elective | Apply the principles of change management in the workplace | 5 | 10 | |
Elective | Co-ordinate the development and implementation of organisational social responsibility strategies | 5 | 5 | |
Elective | Create opportunities for innovation and lead projects to meet innovative ideas | 5 | 4 | |
Elective | Demonstrate knowledge and insight into the principles of monitoring and evaluation in assessing organisation and/or programme performance in a specific context | 5 | 5 | |
Elective | Establish how a value system underpins organisational transformation | 5 | 12 | |
Elective | Implement a programme of diversity management in the workplace | 5 | 14 | |
Elective | Implement a value system to effect organisational transformation | 5 | 12 | |
Elective | Interpret and manage conflicts within the workplace | 5 | 8 | |
Elective | Manage the development and performance of human capital in the public sector | 5 | 12 | |
Elective | Supervise a project team of a developmental project to deliver project objectives | 5 | 14 |
Source: South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA)