| COURSE NUMBER: |
BUSI 399 |
| COURSE TITLE: |
Special Topics in Business - 2005/06 Spring - Leadership |
| NAME OF
INSTRUCTOR: |
Gordon Preston |
| CREDIT WEIGHT
AND WEEKLY TIME DISTRIBUTION: |
credits 3(hrs lect 3 - hrs sem 0 - hrs lab 0) |
| COURSE
DESCRIPTION: |
A course on a topic of figure of special interest to a
member of the business faculty and offered on a non-recurring basis.
Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor
2005/06 Spring
The topic for this course is Leadership. Through reading, dialogue,
participation and reflection students will gain understanding of the
leadership function, various contextual issues of leadership, and of
themselves as leaders. Special emphasis will be placed on biblically
sound models of leadership.
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| REQUIRED TEXTS: |
- Adam, Richard Watership Down, New
York, Avon 1972
- Wilkes,
C. Gene Jesus
on Leadership, Wheaton, Tyndale 1998
- DePree,
Max Leadership is an Art
New York, Doubleday 1989
- Other
readings as assigned.
- Course
website (available June 8, 2006):
www.can-reg.com/moodle You will need to enroll
yourself in BUSI 399 the first time you go to this site. To do this you
will need to use an enrollment key, which for this course is “leading”.
Most of the software is straight forward, but if you wish to review
support documentation go to www.moodle.org and look for student
documentation.
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| MARK DISTRIBUTION IN PERCENT: |
| Participation |
20% |
| Midterm |
20% |
| Integrative
Paper |
30% |
| On-trail
Participation |
10% |
| Self Reflection |
20% |
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|
100% |
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| COURSE OBJECTIVES: |
Students will be able to:
- articulate the principle concepts in leadership
theory
- analyze leadership situations appropriately
- articulate a reasonable self-assessment regarding
their own leadership
- evaluate the impact of a Christian worldview on their
approach to leadership
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| COURSE OUTLINE: |
Overview: The bulk of content will be delivered through
downloadable digital lectures, readings and on-trail
activities.
- Introduction (lecture – Preston)
- Definitions & Assumptions
- Reading A Review of Leadership
Theory and Competency Framework Bolden et al,
2003
http://www.leadership-studies.com/documents/mgmt_standards.pdf
sections 1, 4 and 8
- Leadership Functions (lecture – Preston)
- Administration/Management/Leadership – what’s the
difference
- Readings – An article that introduces
Henry Mintzberg’s classic taxonomy of managerial work in a dramatic
case study. Managing
Exceptionally. By: Mintzberg,
Henry. Organization Science, Nov/Dec2001, Vol. 12 Issue 6, p759, 13p, 1
diagram; (AN 5718026)
Available on-line through The King’s library (use the database Business
Source Premier)
- Leadership Models (lecture – Preston)
- Natural World/Military/Political/Traditional
Business/Emerging Business (New Science – chaos theory,
physics)/Church: historical and contemporary/Christian
Humanist
- Readings – Hersey, P. &
Blanchard, K. “So You Want To Know Your Leadership Style” Training and Development
Journal June 1981 Available from the course file folder
under Lecture 3 Leadership Models.
- Christian Perspectives on Leadership
(lecture – Preston)
- Servant Leadership (lecture – Rude)
- Readings - Dr. Jim Laub Defining Servant Leadership: A
Recommended Typology for Servant Leadership Studies
... available at
http://www.regent.edu/acad/sls/publications/conference_proceedings/servant_leadership_roundtable/2004/proceedings.htm
- Readings – an excellent article that
gives a broad overview of servant leadership, written by Larry Spears,
current president and CEO of the Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant
Leadership.
http://leadertoleader.org/leaderbooks/L2L/fall2004/spears.html
- Readings – One of the best researched studies on
successful leadership. Collins, Jim Harvard Business Review
“Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve”
January 01, 2001 available at U. of A. in hardcopy or
electronically for $7 from Harvard Business Review online
(product #5831)
- Leadership Sources (lecture –
Preston)
- Positional power/Technical power/Social
power/Divine designation
- Leadership Styles
- MBTI assessment (on-line activity: complete prior
to July 1)
- Students should familiarize themselves with Myers
Briggs prior to doing the assessment by going to
http://www.myersbriggs.org/
- Self awareness and team awareness (F2F lecture
August 19 - Rude)
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