34165-002 Kibler
Instructor: Marlo Kibler, MBA, Assistant Director of Scholarship and Fund Administration
Email: mkibler5@kent.edu
Office Phone: (330) 672-1420 or Cell: (216)280-7191
Office Hours: By appointment only
Communication: Please allow 24 hours for instructor responses to emails. You will most likely receive quick responses from me, but you cannot rely upon it. Please email me directly at the above email address - not through Blackboard Learn - if you desire a timely response. Be sure to check your KSU email and Blackboard Learn for communications from me at least every other day. FYI, due to FERPA regulations, I cannot communicate grades or course-related materials to non-KSU email addresses. It is your responsibility to communicate to me if you are going to be absent and or for you to make up any missed assignments or to get caught up on any classroom discussion missed. Class participation is a very important component to your being successful in this class and for your future business endeavors. From time to time, we will have guest speakers who have been gracious enough to volunteer their time and expertise to help to provide you some insight on what the world of business is all about. Therefore if you are not here to be able to ask questions and to engage in the discussions you cannot earn participation points. It is my expectation this class will not only be informational and interesting but fun and very collaborative. I am excited to be your instructor this semester! Let’s have an excellent class!
Required Textbooks:
Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience, Eighth edition – (McGraw-Hill-Irwin) - Loose-leaf
ISBN: 0-07-758106-7
Soft cover (more expensive) ISBN: 978-0-07-786240-4 (Compare prices to get the best deal) Check out the following resources: Amazon.com, Half.com, and other online outlets as well for savings.
Top Hat:
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1) Foster and promote a collaborative and engaging classroom environment to allow students to learn about leadership from various perspectives and each other
2) Integrate the use of Top Hat technology to increase class participation and student engagement
3) Understand what is business is and how leaders functions in various work environments. We will examine a not-for-profit business vs. a government or public entity
4) Understand the dynamics that actually make a leader.
5) Understand business leadership and its impact and role in society
6) Enhance critical thinking and problem solving skills Dynamics of Leadership – Spring 2015 MIS: 34165-002-20140 - 16 Weeks Kent State University College of Business Administration Business Administration Building, Room 115 Mondays 5:30 – 8:15 pm
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7) Build a foundation for subsequent business course work and real life work experience
8) Recognize the importance of current events impact on leadership decisions (local news, national news, world news etc.)
9) Recognize the effect politics and government has on business and leadership decisions.
10) Allow students to demonstrate their leadership style and plan how to achieve their personal short and long-term goals using
COURSE ORGANIZATION: Class time will focus on practical application and reinforcement of the text material. This will be accomplished through the use of lectures, discussions, PowerPoint presentations, videos, guest speakers and online demonstrations. Class time will not simply be a rehash of the text material. All students are expected to have read the assigned chapters in order to be an active participant during class. All written assignments will be submitted via Blackboard Learn.
EXPECTATIONS: All students are expected to:
1) Attend class – This is separate from participating in class!
2) Arrive for class on time – Attendance will be taken every class via Top Hat! – If you are not present when attendance was taken you will be counted absent regardless if you were here! You must be in class in order to respond to the attendance code which will be sent. The code will change for each and every class!
3) Purchase the Top Hat Application on or before the 2nd class – January 26, 2015 (We are closed for M.L.K on January 19, 2015) – Please refer to the instructions on Blackboard under the “Text and Materials” link)
4) Not to cause disruptions during class
5) Participate in all classroom discussions (This does not mean simply showing up to class)
6) Submit homework assignments by the assigned due dates – no exceptions
7) Conduct themselves as a business professional
ACADEMIC HONESTY:
All work related to this class is to be done individually! Cheating means to misrepresent the source, nature, or other conditions of your academic work (e.g., tests, papers, projects, assignments) so as to get undeserved credit. In addition, it is considered cheating when one cooperates with someone else in any such misrepresentation. The use of the intellectual property of others without giving them appropriate credit is a serious academic offense. It is the University's policy that cheating or plagiarism result in receiving a failing grade for the work or for the course. Repeat offenses may result in dismissal from the University. This includes plagiarism!!
STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES:
University policy 3342-3-01.3 requires that students with disabilities be provided reasonable accommodations to ensure their equal access to course content. If you have a documented disability and require accommodations, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to make arrangements for necessary classroom adjustments. Please note, you must first verify your eligibility for classroom adjustments through Student Accessibility Services (contact 330-672-3391 or visit http://www.kent.edu/sas/index.cfm for more information on registration procedures).
ENROLLMENT REQUIREMENTS:
Students have a responsibility to ensure they are properly enrolled in classes. You are advised to review your official class schedule (using Student Tools on Flash Line) during the first two weeks of the semester to ensure you are properly enrolled in this class and section. Should you find an error in your class schedule, you have until Sunday, January 25, 2015 to correct the error. If registration errors are not corrected by this date and you continue to attend and participate in classes for which you are not officially enrolled, you are advised now you will not receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester for any class for which you are not properly registered.
COURSE WITHDRAWAL DEADLINE:
Please note that the last day to drop this class is Sunday, March 22, 2015.
GRADING (Subject to minor modifications at the discretion of your instructor):
Business Article: 1 assignment 70
In Class Participation: 75
Attendance 75
Tests: 4 Exams 200 (50 points each)
Learn Smarts - 16 80 (5 points each)
Action Learning Project 150
Final Exam: 50
Total Points: 700
GRADING SCALE:
A 93% or greater (651-700) C+ 77% - 79.99% (539-559)
A- 90% - 92.99% (630-650) C 73% - 76.99% (511-538)
B+ 87% - 89.99% (609-649) C- 70% - 72.99% (490-510)
B 83% - 86.99% (581-608) D 60% - 69.99% (420-489)
B- 80% - 82.99% (560-580) F 0% - 59.99% (<419)
TESTS AND FINAL EXAM: Some tests and possibly the final exam will be administered in the computer lab located on the 2nd floor of the College of Business Administration Building, Room A226 utilizing Blackboard if available. The first two exams will be held in class on your regularly scheduled class day Monday evening! Students must check in with the Proctor, show his/her student or other acceptable photo ID before being to take the exam. Students must know their Flashline ID and Password.
Students have the option of when to take the exam. Test dates will be announced in class with days and times the test will be available. No make-up tests or exams will be permitted except in the event of a documented student illness, hospitalization or death of an immediate family member. Any test or exam taken after the prescribed exam periods is subject to a minimum markdown of 20%. No materials of any kind are permitted during an exam including translation dictionaries.
BUSINESS ARTICLE: You will be assigned 1 business article on a selected topic for which you are to analyze and discuss what are the leadership considerations and how these decisions can or will impact the community and organization as a whole. Your response will consist of writing a professional quality, word-processed analysis not simply to summarize what you have read. Your business article analysis is expected to be at least 2 and ½ pages in length, (no more than 3) double spaced in APA format, complete with references and a cover page. Beyond the quality of the content of your responses, good spelling and good grammar do matter.
PARTICIPATION: It is at the sole discretion of the professor to award up to 75 points for superior class participation in the classroom! Participation is not based strictly on attendance, but also upon the contribution to class discussion. In order for one to be a leader, he/she must be able to effectively communicate both verbally as well as written.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT: If you experience problems with Blackboard Learn which prevents you from submitting any work or assignment, you must contact the Instructor via the email address indicated above (not through Learn) PRIOR to the deadline to discuss alternative solutions. Problems with Blackboard Learn do not excuse late submissions.
KSU Helpdesk – http://www.kent.edu/is/helpdesk/index.cfm
Blackboard Learn Orientation – http://ondemand.blackboard.com
EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENTS: Students will have opportunities during the semester to earn extra credit for a total of 35 points. ALL STUDENTS are encouraged to take advantage of completing the extra credit assignments to help you especially should you run into a rough patch later in the semester. It can only help you. Yes, it is more work but in the workplace they have a name for it: “Other duties as assigned”. The extra credit assignments will be told you during class. If you have a perfect score of 700 accumulated points, YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO TAKE THE FINAL!
The schedule below is tentative and the instructor reserves the right to make changes.
COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
Week 1 Date Topics/Agenda Deliverables (HW and Assignments)
Monday,
Jan. 12, 2015
Introduction to the Course and the Instructor
Watch Video – Letter to a person on their first day here.
Review of the Syllabus.
Class Discussion on Leadership Styles
Video – Tim Cook, CEO, Apple – Ethical Leadership
Purchase book. In class discussion on leadership styles? Read Chapter 1& 2 for next class.
Week 2 Date Topics/Agenda Deliverables (HW and Assignments)
Monday,
January 19, 2015
No School – Martin Luther King Day
Opportunity for Extra Credit (MLK Program)
Monday,
Jan. 26, 2015
Chapter 1 - What Do We Mean by Leadership?
Chapter 2 – Action Learning, Development Planning, Coaching, Mentoring
Building Your Own Leadership Self Image
Review of Business Articles Assignments
Discuss Chapter 1 What Do We Mean By Leadership?
Discuss Chapter 2 Developing Leaders in College and Organizational Settings
Read Chapter 3: Skills for Developing Yourself as Leader
Read Chapter 4: Power and Influence prepare for next class discussion.
Week 3 Date Topics/Agenda Deliverables (HW and Assignments)
Monday,
Feb. 2, 2015
Chapter 3 – Skills for Developing Yourself as a Leader
Power and Influence
Creating Opportunities for Feedback
The Importance of Journaling
Technology and Leadership
Review Chapters 3-4 and overview of test material covering chapters 1-4.
Week 4 Date Topics/Agenda Deliverables (HW and Assignments)
Monday,
Feb. 9, 2015
Chapter 3 – Skills for Developing Yourself as a Leader
Power and Influence
Creating Opportunities for Feedback
The Importance of Journaling
Technology and Leadership EXAM #1 Review (Chapters 1-4)
Read Chapters 5 & 6 for next class. Complete Personality Analysis for in class discussion
Week 5 Date Topics/Agenda Deliverables (HW and Assignments)
Monday,
Feb.16, 2015
EXAM #1 (Chapters 1-4)
Chapter 5 – Leadership, Ethics and Values
Chapter 6 – Leadership Attributes
OCEAN Model of Personality
The Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
Learner vs. Judger – The Choices We Make and the Impact on Leadership
Review of Business Article
Discuss Chapter 5: Is Ethics relevant to leadership. Can values changed over time?
Discuss Chapter 6: Emotional Intelligence, The Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
Read Chapter 7: Leadership Behavior and Values
Read Chapter 8: Leadership Attributes
Week 6 Date Topics/Agenda Deliverables (HW and Assignments)
Monday,
Feb.23, 2015
Chapter 7 – Leadership Behavior and Values
Community Leadership, The Leadership Pipeline
Chapter 8 – Leadership Attributes
Building Expertise, Communication, Know What Your Purpose Is.
Building Trust
EXAM #2 Review (Chapters 5-8)
Discuss Chapter7: Competency Models, Leadership values and behavior
Discuss Chapter 8: Leadership Attributes
Review Chapters 5-8 for Exam review next class
Exercise: Communication Styles
Week 7 Date Topics /Agenda Deliverables (HW and Assignments)
Monday,
March 2, 2015
EXAM #2 (Chapters 5-8)
Guest Speaker: TBA
Complete Exam #2
Read chapter 9 and prepare for next class discussion
Week 8 Date Topics/Agenda Deliverables (HW and Assignments)
Monday,
March 9, 2015
Chapter 9 – Motivation, Satisfaction and Performance
Maslow Hierarchy of Needs
Achievement Orientation: How Does Personality Affect Motivation
Goal Setting – Short Term vs. Long Term
Technology for the Organized Leader
Understanding and Influencing
Follower Satisfaction
Create your short term and long term goal list.
Write a 2 page action plan as to how you will achieve your short term and long term goals based on the concepts discussed in class from chapters 1-9. Due next class.
Discuss Chapter 9: Understanding and Influencing Follower Motivation
How does personality Affect Motivation?
The Operant Approach: How Do Rewards and Punishment Affect Motivation?
Read Chapter 10 &11 and prepare for next class discussion
Week 9 Date Topics/ Agenda Deliverables (HW and Assignments)
Monday,
March 16, 2014
Chapter 10 – the Workforce
Individuals vs. Groups vs. Teams
The Nature of Groups
Business Article Assignment - Due At The Beginning of Class!
Discuss Chapter 10: Motivating the Workforce
Effective Team Characteristics and Team Building
Leadership Prescriptions of the Model
Chapter 11 – Skills for Developing Others
Setting Goals
Providing Constructive Feedback
Team Building for Work Teams
Building High Performance Team
Guest Speaker: TBA
Effective Team Characteristics and Team Building
Leadership Prescriptions of the Model
Discuss Chapter 11 – Skill for Developing Others
Read chapter 12 & 13 and prepare for next class discussion
Discussion: Google – Why Innovation is critical to exceptional leadership and employee performance Week 10 Date Topics/Agenda Deliverables (HW and Assignments)
March,
March 23, 2015
NO Class – Spring Break!!!
March 23 -29, 2015
Exam 3 – (Chapters 9-12) will be given at the beginning of class after spring break. Will be a very short exam and then we will have class
ENJOY YOUR TIME OFF!!!
Read Chapter 14 for next class after we return from Spring Break Week 11 Date Topics/ Agenda Deliverables (HW and Assignments
Monday,
March 30, 2015
Exam 3 (Short exam- Chapters 9-12)
Chapter 14 – Leadership and Change
The Emotional Approach to Organizational Change: Charismatic and Transformational Leadership
The examination of Dr. Warren –Kent State University’s next President
Discuss the first half of Chapter 14: The Emotional Approach to Organizational Change: Charismatic and Transformational Leadership
Discussion: Kent State University’s Transformational Change – New Leadership under President Dr. Warren
Week 12 Date Topics/Agenda Deliverables (HW and Assignments)
Monday,
April 6, 2015
Chapter 14 – Follower Characteristics
Identification With the Leader and Vision
Heightened Emotional Levels
Situational Characteristics
Crises
Other Situational Characteristics
Discuss the second half of Chapter 14: Follower Characteristics
Identification With the Leader and Vision
Heightened Emotional Levels – A Change is Going to Come!
Crises and Leadership
Read Chapter 15 to prepare for next class
Action Learning Project Presentations –Group 1
Week 13 Date Topics /Agenda Deliverables (HW and Assignments)
Monday,
April 13, 2015
Chapter 15 – The Dark Side of Leadership
Bad Leadership
Managerial Incompetence
Managerial Derailment
The Six Root Causes of Managerial Incompetence and Derailment
More Clues for the Clueless: Lack of Situational and Self Awareness
Lack of Intelligence, Subject Matter Expertise and Team Building Know How: Real Genius
Read Chapter 16: Skills for Optimizing Leadership as Situations Change
What is Bad Leadership?
Managerial Derailment
Week 14 Date Topics/Agenda Deliverables (HW and Assignments)
Monday,
April 20, 2015
The Six Root Causes of Managerial Incompetence and Derailment
More Clues for the Clueless: Lack of Situational and Self Awareness
Lack of Intelligence, Subject Matter Expertise and Team Building Know How: Real Genius
The Six Root Causes of Managerial Incompetence and Derailment
Action Learning Project Presentations – Group 2
Week 15 Date Topics/Agenda Deliverables (HW and Assignments)
Monday,
April 27, 2015
Complete last set of Class Presentations remaining students
Final Exam Review
Action Learning Project Presentations – Group 3
Review for Final Exam
Week 16
Monday – Friday
May 4 -8, 2015
Final Exam – Location to be Announced No later than February 1, 2014
Final Exam – NO CLASS
