64158 Hogue

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." — John Quincy Adams

Leadership and Managerial Assessment

64158

Spring, 2013

Instructor:                   Mary Hogue, Ph.D.

Office:                         A423

Phone:                         (330) 672-1148

Office Hours:              T Th 11:00-12:15, W 1:00-2:00

E-Mail:                        mhogue@kent.edu

Class meeting:             T Th 12:30-1:45 A325

Required text:             No text is required for the first half of the class. Assigned articles can be found at the university library website.

                                    For the second half of the class, we will use Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literatureby Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (2006).

Course Objectives: This course offers students the opportunity to develop a better understanding of the concept of leadership and of themselves as leaders who manage others. Specific objectives are for students to develop:

• an understanding of leadership as a social process in which the leader, the follower, and the situation are equally important.
• an appreciation for how the process works through relationship building, communication, and influence.
• a skill set for developing themselves and others.

Course Overview: Course objectives will be met through extensive discussion of assigned reading material. The first half of the class (up to the mid-term) is designed to provide a deep understanding of the social process of leadership and your role as a leader or a follower within that process. The second half of the class (after the mid-term) is designed to offer insight into how you can become the best leader possible.

During the first half of class, we will read and discuss many articles written by leadership experts. During the second half of class, we will examine stories about leaders as a means of determining the lessons that will be important to you as you develop your leadership skills.

Course Structure: Long-lasting learning is an iterative process. You must go over the material many times and in many different ways in order to create a memory that can be called on in the future – called on to successfully respond to test questions, but more importantly, called on to help you as you lead others.

With that in mind, this class is structured to provide many ways for you to go through the material. Your first opportunity is reading. Each week we will cover a new dimension of the leadership process, and you will become familiar with the dimension by reading the assigned material before coming to class. Your next opportunity will occur as we discuss the material in class. To learn how to be a better leader, it is not sufficient to read material and memorize concepts. You must learn to integrate the new material with information you already have, and as the semester goes on, with course material you have just learned. Discussions are designed to help you develop a deeper level of understanding than you will have gained when you initially read the material.

Then, you will go through the material again as you prepare for your tests.

Grade Determinations: Grades will be earned through:

In-class discussion.  Ours is a seminar type of class. That means that discussion is integral to learning. You will be rewarded for your participation in discussion. One hundred possible points are available for participation. These will be assigned in blocks of 50. Fifty will be earned prior to the mid-term, and 50 after.

Tests. There will be two tests. They will be take-home tests and will consist of short answer and short essay questions.

Tests must be electronically sent to me by the end of our class period on the assigned test days. You will be docked one letter grade for each hour or part thereof that your paper is late. For that reason, my advice would be to plan to send your test at the beginning rather than the end of class because what will be recorded in my email will be the time I receive your exam. If everyone sends them at 2 minutes ‘till the hour, then some may arrive late.

Your mid-term exam is worth 150 points. The final exam is worth 175 points.

Total points available:             Group participation                                           100

                                                Test 1                                                                150

                                                Test 2                                                                175

Total                                                                  325

The Following Policies Apply to All Students in this Course

Students attending the course who do not have the proper prerequisite risk being deregistered from the class.

Students have responsibility to ensure they are properly enrolled in classes. You are advised to review your official class schedule (using Student Tools on FlashLine) 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, September 7, 2014 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 that you will not receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester for any class in which you are not properly registered.

Academic honesty: Academic honesty: 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 to 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 course.  Repeat offenses result in dismissal from the University.

For Fall 2014, the course withdrawal deadline is Sunday, November 2, 2014.

Students needing accessability: 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 these through Student Accessibility Services (contact 330-672-3391 or visit http://www.registrars.kent.edu/disability/  for more information on registration procedures).

Locating Assigned Reading Material

To locate assigned articles:

1) On the KSU Library homepage, in the “Articles” tab, click “Databases.”

2) An alphabetical list of all databases will come up. Find Business Source Complete. If you are not able to locate the article with this database, you may need to go to an alternative database, PsychInfo.

3) Make sure that you have the “Advanced Search” open. It has 3 search boxes available instead of just 1.

4) Put the 3 pieces of information on the syllabus schedule into the search boxes (article title, author, journal title), and it should take you right to the article.  To be honest, you can usually find an article with only 2 of the 3 pieces of information, so if you can’t find the article with all 3, it’s possible that either you or I have misspelled something, in which case, try fewer pieces of information.

**If you are working from home, download the Kent VPN (you can find this at the library’s website) and make sure it is connected.

**If you are unable to locate an article, let me know, and I can send my copy to you. Please make every effort to locate articles on your own, contacting me only when you’ve exhausted all other avenues.

The book can be purchased at any online site. Here’s the link for Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Questions-Character-Illuminating-Leadership-Literature/dp/1591399688

Here’s the link for half.com

http://product.half.ebay.com/Questions-of-Character-Illuminating-the-Heart-of-Leadership-Through-Literature-by-Joseph-L-Jr-Badaracco-2006-Hardcover/48240154&tg=info

Schedule

Following is a tentative class schedule. Changes to this syllabus will be made either in class or through Flashline email. You are responsible for any changes made.

Understanding Primary Parts of the Leadership Process

The Leadership Process at Work

Questions of character: Reading assignments to be determined. A schedule will be passed out before the mid-term.