M&IS 34165 Spring 2007 Hogue

 

Instructor:                    Mary Hogue, Ph.D.

Office:                         A423

Phone:                         (330) 672-1148

Office Hours:              MW 12:30-2:00

                                    W 4:00-5:00

                                    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:              MW 11:00-12:15, BSA 208

Required text:              Hughes, R. L.,  Ginnett, R. C., & Gordon, C. J. (2006).

                                    Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience. McGraw-Hill

                                    Irwin: New York.

Additional Readings:

Hollander, E.P. (1992). Leadership, Followership, Self, and Others. Leadership

            Quarterly, 3, 43-54.

 

Smircich, L. & Morgan, G. (1982). Leadership: The management of meaning. Journal

            of Applied Behavioral Science, 18, 257-273.

 

Yoder, J. D. & Kahn, A. S. (2003). Making gender comparisons more meaningful: A call

            for more attention to social context. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 27, 281-

            290.

            *****Begin reading at page283 with “Context Matters and Is Gendered.”

Meindl, J. R. (1995). The romance of leadership as a follower-centric theory: A social

            constructionist approach. Leadership Quarterly, 6, 329-341.

Sternberg, R. J. & Vroom, V. (2002). The person versus the situation in leadership.

            The Leadership Quarterly, 13, 301-323.

 

Course Objectives: This course will be directed toward an investigation of leadership as a process that includes the leader, the follower(s), and the situation with an emphasis on understanding how the three work together to produce leadership and how none can act alone to produce leadership.

 

Course Overview: This class is devoted to ensuring that you learn about leadership – not that you achieve a particular grade through short-term memorization of the material for a test. To learn, you must work to build your memory. Your work will consist of reading assigned material before attending class. Reading the material will help you to develop a basic understanding. Then, in class, your work will consist of participating in the discussions designed to develop the cognitive connections that result in long-term learning.

 

Grade Determinations: Learning occurs in various ways, so I will assess your understanding in various ways as well.

 

Because you are required to read assigned material before coming to class, you have the opportunity to be rewarded for doing so. There will be 12 pop quizzes throughout the semester. Each will consist of 5 multiple choice worth 2 pts. each. Your lowest two quiz scores will be dropped. That means that 100 points are available for simply reading the assigned material.

Over the course of the semester, we will discuss leadership as a process involving separate components. At the end of the semester, we will integrate the components. You will write a semester-long paper in 4 sections (1 for each of 3 components and 1 integration section). Instructions are at the end of this syllabus. 125 points are available from paper.

 

Papers are due at the beginning of class on the assigned days. No late papers will be accepted unless arrangements have been made with me prior to the due date, and I will not make arrangements for this except in the case of an extreme, unavoidable, and documented emergency. No papers will be accepted via email. You will have sufficient time to complete each paper, so there will be no acceptable excuse for a late assignment. Specifically, you may not tell me that your printer broke because there is always a working printer on campus. You may not tell me that you, your spouse, your parent, or your child got sick because there will be time before the due date for you to work on the paper. If you tell me your paper is not finished due to illness (or a flat tire or an unexpected emergency, etc.), I will simply perceive that you disregarded all of the time I allowed and chose to wait until the last minute. Given that perception, I will tell you that you must suffer the consequences of your decision. I will not accept the excuse nor accept the late paper. The only way I will accept a late paper will be if you have a doctor’s, business, or university excuse.

 

There will be a comprehensive final exam. It will require you to draw information from throughout the semester and to integrate that information to show the depth of your understanding.

 

During the final week of the regular semester, we will watch a movie, and for the exam, you will be asked to draw examples from the movie that illustrate course material and to explain what those concepts are and how they work with other concepts that you notice to produce the process of leadership. Also, you will be asked how things might be different if a part of the process (e.g., the leader, the follower, or the situation) were to change.

Points available:

Quizzes (times 12 minus 2)               100

Paper

            Leader                                     25

            Follower                                  25

            Situation                                  25

            Integration                               50

Total                                                    325

 

 

The table below depicts the grading scale along with the points necessary to earn each grade.

 

 

Class Attendance: All students are expected to attend class regularly and are responsible for all material covered even when they miss class. As stated previously, you are required to know material that is in the textbook AND ALSO MATERIAL THAT IS PRESENTED IN CLASS BUT IS NOT FOUND IN THE BOOK. Additionally, announcements may be made in class to alter this syllabus, and you are responsible for knowing them and abiding by them. For this reason, it is to your benefit to attend class each day.

 

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 Friday, January 26, 2007 to correct the error with your advising office.  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:  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.

For Spring 2007, the course withdrawal deadline is Sunday, March 25, 2007.   Withdrawal before the deadline results in a "W" on the official transcript; after the deadline a grade must be calculated and reported.

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).

 

 

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.

 

 

 

This semester, you will write 1 paper in 4 sections, each devoted to a different aspect of the leadership process, all focused on the same situation. Read Highlight 2.2 on pages 31-32 in your book. The section is titled, Berkley in the 1960’s.  Imagine that you feel like Mario Savio – that some social issue (one that involves and affects other people) must be changed.

 

Begin your first paper with a brief description of the issue that you would like to change. Also describe the method by which you best could be the leader of the change that you describe. For example, Savio thought that the social issue that needed to be changed was the oppression of political expression felt by students at Berkeley. Notice how specific this is. It isn’t freedom of speech in general; it is the freedom of political expression on the Berkeley campus. Your problem must be that specific as well. The method of change for Savio was that he became a pubic speaker whose purpose was to influence the thoughts and behaviors of others. More specifically, Savio influenced other students to become involved in the cause in order to strengthen the power of the Movement, and he also influenced the university’s president to change the university’s policy. Again, notice that Savio had specific goals of influence. You must have those as well.

 

The sections of your paper each will be devoted to a different part of the leadership process. Your first paper will discuss the role of the leader in the process; your second will discuss the role of the follower(s); and your third will discuss the effect of the situation. Your final paper will be an integration of all 3 papers in order to show how the leader, follower, and situation interact within the leadership process and how the process would change if any one of the components were to change.

 

 

 

Do not put your paper in a folder.

 

Do staple your pages at the top left corner.

 

Place your name, my name, and the name of the course in the top left corner.

 

Make a header that has your last name and the page number in the top right corner.

 

Put the title centered in the middle of the page below the name of the course, above the text of the paper.

 

With an underlined heading, Scenario, place your paragraph containing your description of the scenario below the title.

 

The bulk of your paper will consist of 4 sections. Each should begin with an underlined heading. The headings simply will be Leader, Follower, Situation, and Integration.

 

Each new term or concept discussed, must be placed in italics. (See citation examples below.)

 

 

 

 

 

The content of each section must demonstrate your understanding of course material. To demonstrate your understanding, you must refer to material from the book, the additional readings, and class discussion. For each paper, you must choose 6 concepts from the corresponding section (e.g., 6 leader concepts for the section devoted to the leader).  Three concepts will come from reading assignments, and three concepts will come from outside material that I bring to class discussion.

 

You must cite the sources of your understanding. If you only use material from the course, then you do not need a reference page. If you bring in outside material, then you must provide the reference. Following are methods of giving credit to the source of your knowledge.

 

            According to our book, the leadership process is significantly affected by followers’

perception of the legitimacy of the leader.

 

            The leader-follower relationship is dynamic and changes over time (Hollander, 1994).

 

            The authors of our textbook cite the work of Stogdill (1948) who was unable to find

            specific traits that all leaders posses but non-leaders do not have.

 

            As discussed in class, the work of Offerman and her colleagues (1994) suggests that

            most followers expect leaders to be masculine.

 

Citing the source of your knowledge keeps you from plagiarizing. Putting the concepts in italics ensures that you have sufficient separate concepts. You also must define or explain the concepts you include so that I know that you have a basic understanding. You also must correctly apply the concept to your scenario so that I can tell that you have a deeper level of understanding. An example follows. THIS MEANS THAT YOU MAY NOT USE THIS CONCEPT IN YOUR PAPER.

 

            The authors of our textbook cite the work of Stogdill (1948) who was unable to find

            specific traits that all leaders posses but non-leaders do not have. Traits are habitual

            patterns of thinking or behaving (Hogan, 1995 as cited in our text), and although

            researchers originally believed that leaders and followers were essentially different,

            Stogdill’s research didn’t uncover how they were different. Our book discusses more

            recent research, though, that does explain how certain personality traits enhance the

            likelihood that someone will be a leader or enhance the likelihood that a leader will

            be effective, but from Stogdill’s work, I know that there is not just one type of person

            who would be able to make the change I am advocating. This gives me hope to believe

            that the traits I possess might just work for this change.

 

For each paper, 5 points are available for writing, including following the correct format, spelling, and grammar. The remaining points will be divided in half (10/10 for the first 3 sections and 22.5/22.5 for the final section) with one half earned when you appropriately select and define concepts and the other half earned when you correctly apply the concept. Remember, 6 terms must be defined and applied, but just as in my example paragraph, all terms that are used must be defined with credit given to the source of your definition.