BAD 64158 Spring 2011 Hogue

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leadership and Managerial Assessment

64158

Spring, 2011

Instructor:                   Mary Hogue, Ph.D.

Office:                         A423

Phone:                         (330) 672-1148

Office Hours:              I will be available at each campus for an hour before class. On the

Kent campus, I’ll be in my office. I’ll find a convenient location at

the other campuses and let you know where it is. I am also always

available by appointment

E-Mail:                        mhogue@kent.edu

Class meeting:             W 6:15-8:55 (or so, since we’ll only meet every third week, we

may run late sometimes)

Required text:                         No text is required for this class. Assigned articles are listed at

the end of the syllabus and can be found at the university library website.

Required films:           Ghandi (1982) Directed by Richard Attenborough. Starring Ben

                                    Kingsley as Ghandi

                                    Milk (2008) Directed by Gus Van Sant. Starring Sean Penn as

                                    Harvey Milk

Course Objectives: This course offers students the opportunity to develop a better understanding of the concept of leadership and a better understanding 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.
• learn skills that will help them to lead others more effectively.

Course Overview: This course consists of 3 parts: 1) Independent work in which students read assigned material looking for specific definitions or explanations of concepts found on the “Important Terms” handout; 2) Application in which students watch two films looking for examples of how the material was applied by each leader; 3) In-class discussion.

Grade Determinations: Grades will be earned through three papers. The first will be an explanation of the leadership that occurs in each film focusing on the leader, followers, and situation. In the second paper, students will compare and contrast the leadership process in each film. For the third paper, students will discuss which lessons from each leader can be incorporated into their own lives.

Grade Assignments

Paper 1                                                              100

                                                Paper 2                                                              100

Final paper                                                        100

Total                                                                  325

A = 93% and above    279-300 pts.

A- = 90%                    270

B+ = 87%                    264

B = 83%                      249

B- = 80%                     240

C+ = 77%                    234

C = 73%                      219

C- = 70%                     210

D = 60%                      180 pts.

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.

B.       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, January 23, 2011 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.

C.      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.

D.      For Spring, the course withdrawal deadline is Sunday, March 20, 2011 Withdrawal before the deadline results in a "W" on the official transcript; after the deadline a grade must be calculated and reported.

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:

*First you must ensure that you have access to the library’s materials. You will have access if you use a university computer. If you are accessing material from your home computer, you will need to download the Kent VPN, which can be found on the Library’s home page.

1) On the KSU Library homepage, in the box labeled “Research,” click the link that says “Research Databases.”

2) An alphabetical list of all databases will come up. Most articles can be found using Business Source Complete. If you are not able to locate the article with this database, you may need to go to 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. 

**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.

Schedule

Following are 3 tentative class schedules. Locate the schedule appropriate to your campus. Changes to this syllabus will be made either in class or through Flashline email. You are responsible for knowing any changes.

Lorain

Stark

Kent

First set of assigned reading material

Managers and leaders: Are they different. (Saleznick) Harvard Business Review (HBR)

Superleadership: Beyond the myth of heroic leadership (Manz & Sims) Organizational Dynamics

The Leader

Do traits matter: (Kirkpatrick & Locke) Journal of Organizational Behavior

The general intelligence factor (Gottfredson) Scientific American

The positive value of emotions (Fredrickson) American Scientist

Women and the labyrinth of leadership (Eagly & Carli) HBR

The Followers

What every leader needs to know about followers (Kellerman) HBR

Followership. It’s personal, too (Goffee & Jones) HBR

The Situation

What holds the modern corporation together? (Goffee & Jones) HBR

A leader’s framework for decision making (Snowden & Boone) HBR

Second set of assigned reading material

Power and Influence

Basic social influence is underestimated (Cialdini) Psychological Inquiry

Power, dependence and effective management, (Kotter) HBR

Power play (Pfeffer) HBR

The Relationship

Ethical challenges in the leader-follower relationship (Hollander) If you just google the title and author, you should find the article

Managing authenticity (Goffee & Jones), HBR

The management of organizational justice, (Cropanzano, Bowen & Gilliland), Academy of Management Perspectives

Communication

The art of listening (Hasselbein) Leadership Excellence

How to become an authentic speaker (Morgan) HBR

Third set of assigned reading material

Developing your followers

Cultural constraints in management theories, (Hofstede), The Academy of Management Executive

Micro-aggressions in everyday life (Rivera) Psychology Today (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/microaggressions-in-everyday-life/201010/the-power-define-reality)

Developing yourself

Reaching your potential (Kaplan) HBR

The leaders we need now (Erickson) HBR

In praise of the incomplete leader (Ancona, Malone et al.) HBR

Narcissistic leaders: The incredible pros and inevitable cons (Maccoby) HBR

How bad leadership happens (Kellerman), Leader to Leader