Course Requirements (270 points): A 90% or greater as well as participation in a SIFE teamORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE MGT 4305 Dub Oliver Phone: 710-1314 Cell: 749-3618 Office: McLane Student Life Center, First Floor Email: [email protected] Course Description: This course is intended to help future managers and leaders better understand and diagnose behavior in organizations and use this information to adapt their leadership behavior in order to influence positive change in individuals, teams, or organizations. Course Objectives: It is our goal to facilitate the development of your theoretical understanding and practical skills for effectively leading in today’s organizations. We will seek to stimulate learning by exposing you to research, current literature, experiential activities, and media related to organizational behavior concepts or skills. Course Format: Class sessions will include a combination of focused discussions, videos, experiential activities, presentations, and assignments or tests. These sessions will be participative in nature with each person contributing to the learning experience by actively discussing the reading material, assignments, or activities. Course Text: The Leadership Experience, Third Edition by Richard L. Daft Course Requirements (270 points): 1. Individual Requirements (170 points). A. Comprehension Checks (Each of the tests is worth 20 points – 80 points total). B. Leadership Interviews and Recommendations (Part 1 = 30 points; Part 2 = 10 points). This two part project involves interviewing three managers of your choice. In addition to a short list of standard questions you will need to develop two of your own questions that will help you better understand the issues surrounding this manager’s leadership challenges. Part 2 is your synthesis of the interviews into a series of conclusions. C. Leadership Self-Analysis (50 points). This is an exercise in self-examination. Drawing upon the various self-assessment instruments and your experience in this class you will develop a leadership report. This single-spaced report should be addressed to me as an external executive coach and be four to five pages in length, incorporating bullet points as appropriate for summarizing. The report must contain four sections of information: Diagnostic Information, Effectiveness Goals, Intervention Plans, and Theoretical Justification. The Diagnostic Information should be a SWOT analysis incorporating your self-assessments and personal experiences. The Effectiveness Goals describe the specific goals you aspire to achieve. The Intervention Plan must indicate how you are going to adapt your behavior to reach your goals. Be specific and multi-faceted. TheTheoretical Justification must demonstrate that your actions are guided by sound theory and that you understand the theoretical and practical implications for your actions. These final two sections can be separate or integrated together. 2. Team Projects (100 points) A. Book Brief (50 points).* Each team will be required to briefly overview a book, provide a brief critique, and then spend a majority of the presentation discussing a few specific applications (how we might apply the information from the book to be better leaders). It is not enough to simply present book content. You will be evaluated on how you summarize, draw conclusions, expand upon, and illustrate the two or three specific applications that you choose as the focus of your presentation. The book briefs should last about 30 minutes. • Getting Results – Longenecker and Simmonetti • A Company of Leaders – Spreitzer and Quinn • Execution – Bossidy and Charan • First Break All the Rules – Buckingham and Coffman • Good to Great – Collins • The One Thing You Need To Know – Buckingham B. Leadership Presentation (50 points).* Each team will be responsible for identifying one or two movie clips that illustrate leadership and present the clip(s) as part of a short training session on leadership (30 points). The content of the training session should include the clip(s) as well as a discussion of relevant leadership and motivational theory. Consider the audience to be trainees who are entry level professionals (i.e., people just like you who are in their first three years in a professional position). Your goal is to teach us something more than what we have already learned in class (don’t just repeat information from the text or class lectures). The training session should last 20 minutes. Each team should provide a 3-4 page single-spaced memo to the training department outlining the training session, communicating the value of the clip(s) in educating leaders, and describing how the clip(s) relate to leadership theory (20 points). All the teams will present the same week. * Grades on the team presentations will be a combination of audience and instructor evaluations. Teams will also have the opportunity to evaluate individual team members. Grading Scale (based on percentage of points earned (270 possible) and classes attended): A 90% or greater as well as participation in a SIFE team B + 85-89% B 80-84% C + 75-79% C 70-74% D 60-69% F 59% or belowPlease note that class attendance is very important to me. Course Sessions: Day Date Topic Reading Assignment Monday August 22 Class Overview Wednesday August 24 Team Formation Friday August 26 Leadership Foundations Chapter One Monday August 29 Leadership Foundations Chapter One Wednesday August 31 Leadership Theories Chapter Two Friday September 2 Leadership Theories Chapter Two Monday September 5 Leadership Theories Chapter Three Wednesday September 7 Leadership Theories Chapter Three Friday September 9 NO CLASS Monday September 12 Power and Influence Chapter Twelve Wednesday September 14 Leadership Interviews and Recommendations DuePower and Influence Chapter Twelve Friday September 16 Leader as Individual Chapter Four Monday September 19 Leader as Individual Chapter Four Wednesday September 21 Mind and Heart Chapter Five Friday September 23 Cultural Differences Chapter Eleven Monday September 26 Gender Differences Chapter Eleven Wednesday September 28 Motivation Chapter Eight Friday September 30 Book Brief #1 Monday October 3 Comprehension Check #1 Wednesday October 5 Motivation Chapter Eight Friday October 7 Personality Differences Book Brief