Award

The Leadership and Intrapersonal Development Programme (LIPD), including this subject and other three leadership subjects, wins the Gold Award in Nurturing Wellbeing & Purpose category in the Wharton-QS Stars Reimagine Education Awards 2021 for its success in building up important positive attributes and competencies among university students and enabling them to pursue continual self-improvement, enhance their wellbeing, and contribute to society.

In 2018, the Leadership and Intrapersonal Development (LIPD) Team of APSS has been honoured with the 2018 University Grants Committee (UGC) Teaching Award in recognition of the Team’s remarkable contributions to teaching and learning in offering the leadership subjects including the above.

The subject received the Bronze Award for the category of “Ethical leadership” in the Wharton-QS Stars Reimagine Education Awards 2016 for its success in fostering and encouraging leadership among students and ensuring that students are aware of the ethical implications of leadership. 

Objectives

The objectives of this subject are to enable students to:

1. Learn the basic models of leadership with reference to the service sector;
2. Understand the basic leadership attributes intrinsic to effective service leaders, including leadership competences, moral character, and caring disposition;
3. Reflect on their own service leadership qualities, including leadership competences, moral character, and caring disposition;
4. Learn to develop and apply the basic qualities of an effective service leader;
5. Cultivate an appreciation of the importance of Service Leadership to the development and wellness of oneself, other people, society, nation, and the whole world; and
6. Learn to fulfill their social responsibility as service leaders by satisfying the needs of self, others, society, nation, and the whole world.

Reading and Writing Requirements

The subject will be offered in two different codes to suit the needs of students as below:

• APSS1A21 (with ER/EW requirements)
• APSS1A21M (without ER/EW requirements)

Scholarship

There are 2 quotas of scholarships, each at HK$5,000, to be awarded by the Wofoo Foundation for PolyU students taking the subject in the normal summer term.

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Eligibility

Full-time 4-year degree students are eligible to take the subject.

Pre-requisite Requirement

Nil

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URLs

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