BAD 64158 Fall 2008 Hogue

Leadership and Managerial Assessment

64158-002

Fall, 2008

Instructor:                    Mary Hogue, Ph.D.

Office:                         A423

Phone:                         (330) 672-1148

Office Hours:              W 4:00-6:00

                                    You also may stop in my office any time you see my door open,

                                    or I will be happy to schedule a mutually convenient appointment.

E-Mail:                         mhogue@kent.edu

Class meeting:              W 6:15-8:55

Required text:              No text is required for this class. Assigned articles can be found at the

university library website.

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 a thorough understanding of leadership as a process in which the leader, the follower, and the situation are equally important.
• to practice the skills that will help them to lead others more effectively.

Course Overview: Course objectives will be met through extensive class discussions of assigned reading material, small group leadership coaching sessions, videos and experiential exercises. The reading material, videos, and exercises all offer examples of how certain concepts impact leadership. Through discussions led by me, you will gain a better understanding of why the concepts impact leadership.

In your coaching groups, you will each present a leadership scenario on which you would like to work. The scenario must be:

·         one in which you would like to influence another person or a group of people to work toward a mutual goal.

·         one that will last throughout the semester.

·         meaningful to you.

Each week, after class discussion, you will meet with your coaching group to discuss your leadership dilemmas and to help one another determine the best ways to apply the concept(s) we discussed to your own situations.

Grade Determinations: Grades will be earned through:

Class participation. Fifty points are available for participation. Twenty-five will be awarded by me and twenty-five by members of your coaching group including yourself.

Assigning participation points often is a subjective decision. To make it more objective, I will follow these guidelines, and I will ask that you do as well.

A (22.5-25 pts.) = spectacular participation (almost perfect attendance, demonstration of preparedness, consistently asking insightful questions, consistently adding thoughtful comments)

B (20-22.49 pts.) = above average participation (more than two missed classes, sometimes offering insightful comments or questions, often offering to answer questions posed by me or others)

C (17.5-19.99 pts.) = average participation (usually present, speaks once in a while)

D (15-17.49 pts.) = below average participation (not usually in class, almost never speaks).

Failing participation (0-14.99 pts.) occurs when a student is rarely in class and rarely speaks.

Your final participation grade will consist of the number of points assigned by me plus the average of the points assigned by members of your coaching group.

Exams. There will be two exams in this class – one mid-term and one final. A list of terms and theories will be put on the board at the beginning of class to guide our discussion of how the ideas from the articles impact the leadership process. Additional items may be added as our discussion develops. Exams will include true/false, multiple choice, short answer, and brief essay questions all designed to determine what you learned about the theories and terms. The mid-term is worth 75 pts., and the final is worth 100 pts.

Coaching journal. Guidelines for the journal are at the end of the syllabus. One hundred points are available for your journals.

Total points available:              Participation                                                      50

                                                Mid-term exam                                                             75

                                                Final exam                                                       100

                                                Coaching journal                                                         100

Total                                                                325

The Following Policies Apply to All Students in this Course

A.       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 Web for Students) 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, 2008 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.

B.       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.  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.

C.       For Spring 2008, the course withdrawal deadline is Sunday, Nov. 22, 2008.   Withdrawal before the deadline results in a "W" on the official transcript; after the deadline a grade must be calculated and reported.

D.       Students with disabilities:  University policy 3342-3-18 requires that students with disabilities be provided reasonable accommodations to ensure their equal access equal access course content.  If you have 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 the Student Accessibility Services (contact 330-672-3391 or visit www.kent.edu/sas for more information on registration procedures).

Locating Assigned Reading Material

To locate assigned articles:

1) Log in to your Flashline homepage.

2) Click the “Library” tab.

3) On the left, in the box titled, “Library Collection,” click the link that says “Find Articles Using Research Databases listed by subject.”

4) Click the link for Business.

5) Click on Business Source Complete.

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

7) 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. 

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.

Journal Guidelines

The purpose of the journals is to enhance your understanding through critical thought. Your journal will be organized to follow major discussion topics:

1) Statement of the dilemma.

2) The Leader

     a.

     b.

3) The Follower(s)

4) The Situation

5) The Process

     a.

     b.

6) Self-development

7) Subordinate development

8)  Final comprehensive reflections

Sections 2-7 will use the following structure.

Reflections on steps from previous session: Because this contains your reflections on how you implemented your action steps from the previous section and how successful you were, this will be missing from section 2, but this section will comprise the entire section #8. The reflections are very important in your learning process, so the more thoughtful you are, the more you will learn. As you reflect, support your thoughts with course material.

Topic: The Leader (The Follower, The Process, etc.)              

Concept: Emotions at Work (Extroversion, Gender, etc.). Select one or two specific concepts from our discussions (e.g., White privilege, Artifacts of culture, status, LMX theory, etc.) that is/are especially applicable to your dilemma. These can but need not be chosen by you. It is possible that one of your coaches will offer a great suggestion for you. State the concept you chose and explain or define it noting why it is applicable to your dilemma.

  **Note. Sections 3, 4, 6, 7 must contain 1-2 concepts. Sections 2 & 5 must contain 3-4 concepts.

Advice: Briefly summarize the discussion you had with your coaching team noting specific pieces of advice and who offered them. Include rationale for the suggestions. The coaching advice will be specific and tie the suggestions back to class discussion, so your summary should do the same. Show that you understand why the advice was given and why  the suggestion should work or why  you believe the advice was wrong and will not work.

Action steps: Using the information from the previous section (Advice), develop specific action steps. These should be two-fold. They will begin with your goal, “In order to blah,” and move directly to an “I will” statement that ends with a specific point of action. For example, “In order to encourage my dog not to stop whining, I will stop making high-pitched sing-songy sorts of sounds back at him.” Some weeks, you may only develop one action step. Other weeks, you may develop more. Some weeks, your action steps will carry over (e.g., I will continue working on blah, and I also will blah.”) and other times they will be unique. Some weeks, your action steps may be developed by your coaches, and other times, they may be yours alone. What is important is that you choose something specific for which you will easily be able to gauge your success.

Journals are to be submitted electronically and will be graded and sent back electronically. It is your responsibility to ensure that I receive your journal by the stated time, not just that you send it by that time. So, make sure that you send your journal with sufficient time to receive a reply from me stating that I received it. If you have not received confirmation that I received the journal, then you must resend it. If I a cannot be at my computer between 11 & 12 on the Fridays that journals are due, I will let you know ahead of time.