BUS 262 - Leadership MBA-ONE

Spring 2007

 

Joyce Osland, PhD

Office:   BT 652

Office Phone: (408) 924-3583

Office Hours:  1700-1800 Thursday and 1100-1200 Friday at Rose Orchard (off-campus) or by appointment

Email : osland_j@cob.sjsu.edu  

 

Fax :   (408)924-3555

Web Page:  http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/osland_j/index.htm

Friday 1200-1600

Classroom: Rose Orchard Center # TBA

 

Course Description   This course explores the classic and contemporary models of leaders and leadership in an effort to describe the phenomenon of leadership.   Applications of leadership practices are explored.

 

Course Textbooks/Materials

•  James G. Clawson, Level Three Leadership , 3rd edition (Prentice Hall, 2006). ISBN 0-13-146902-9

•  James Kouzes and Barry Posner, The Leadership Challenge, 3rd edition (Jossey-Bass, 2002) (hardcover, ISBN 0-7879-5678-3 or paperback)

•  Anne Lawrence & Ann Svendsen, The Clayoquot Controversy (CD-Rom simulation to be purchased from the professor by each team) $15.99 per CD-Rom

 

 

“ Possunt quia posse videntur.”   (They can because it seems to them they can.)

                                                                                                                        --Virgil

 

Course Objectives

•  Increase your self-awareness with regard to your own leadership qualities

•  Understand and apply leadership theories

•  Assess and analyze leadership behaviors in others and yourself

•  Recognize and practice effective leadership behaviors

 

Course Format

The primary teaching methodology will be experiential learning, which means we will turn the classroom into a laboratory and create conditions for understanding concepts through experience as well as readings.   We will use role-plays, cases, exercises, and simulations so that you can pull out your own learning points from these experiences.   Ropes course activities will be used to teach teambuilding.   This type of course requires students to take responsibility for their own learning and do all the reading and homework preparation beforehand.   It also requires active participation in the classroom so attendance is mandatory.   If you have an emergency and cannot attend class, please call me beforehand so we can make special arrangements.

 

 

Grading System

Points

Due Date

Personal Application Assignment (PAA) paper

20

Final draft and peer review due 2/16; final submission 3/2

Clayoquot Controversy Simulation

10

2/2

Team Training Project

25

See schedule for your chapter's assigned date

Leader Project

15

Plan - 1/26; report – 3/23

Final Exam

25

3/16

Class contribution and homework

5

Throughout course

 

Personal Application Assignment (PAA)

This is a 5-page paper in which the students take a personal leadership experience and analyze it using the framework of the learning cycle.   On the web page, you can find the instructions and a grading sheet showing the grading criteria.

 

Clayoquot Controversy Simulation

This is a team-based simulation of a complex situation that can only be resolved through dialogue.   Go to the instructions on the CD-Rom, particularly under the heading “Simulation Exercises.” Stakeholder groups will read the information in the briefcase for their group in order to prepare and give a PowerPoint presentation stating their positions. Hand in a copy of your presentation to the professor.  Please dress as your stakeholders and present as they would. Next, heterogeneous groups of stakeholders will engage in dialogue to find an acceptable solution.  

 

This simulation provides an opportunity to practice many skills needed by effective leaders.  Your grade consists of three factors: (1) Teams will be graded on their level of preparation for their presentation. (2) Individual team members will be evaluated by their peers on their ability to engage in productive stakeholder dialogue. (3) There is a slacker penalty on this project; team members will evaluate whether or not all members deserve the same project grade, based on their contribution to the preparation and presentation stage. If, for example, a member only did half of what they were assigned, they should receive only 50% of the team's final grade.

 

Team Training Project

Each team will be responsible for designing and implementing an interactive, creative 40-minute training session on one of the five leader practices in the Kouzes & Posner book.   Their task is to transmit the key points of the chapters and develop their classmates' ability to use this behavior effectively. The grading criteria for the presentations are: how informative, well organized, interactive and engaging, creative, and effective in developing students' skill in using this leadership practice was the training session? There is a slacker penalty on this project, as explained in the previous assignment.

 

 

Leadership Project

To work on the practical aspect of your personal development as a leader, each student will be involved in a leadership project of his or her choice.  Remember that leadership is about making a difference and standing up to accomplish a task or make a change. The context of the project is up to you.  You may work with other students, but if you do so, make sure that each and every one of you has an opportunity to practice leadership skills (and not followership skills).  Choose a project that can be completed before the end of the course.  By the second week of the course, you should hand in a pre-project plan to be approved by the professor that contains these components:

1.    What you are planning to accomplish and why? Be as specific as possible

2.    How will you accomplish your goal?  What steps will be involved?

3.    What are your strengths as a leader?  How will you use them in this project?

4.    What are your weaknesses as a leader?  How will you develop them more in this project?

 

At the end of the course, you will hand in a project report that answers these questions:

1.     What did you accomplish as a leader?

2.     Did it work out as you had planned?

3.    How would you evaluate your leadership performance?  What went well and what could have been done more effectively?

4.    What did you learn about yourself as a leader? What would you do differently if you could repeat the experience with respect to your leadership performance?

This project will be graded on the accomplishment or effort expended in the project and on the insight demonstrated in the pre-project and final project reports and the thoroughness with which you answer the questions.  

You can take advantage of one of the following extra credit opportunities if you wish.

 

1) Leadership Journal – Extra Credit Opportunity (3 points)

Write about the significant points in the assigned reading every week and how they relate to you and your own leadership style.  Write about every leadership attempt you make, the results, and your plans for being more effective in the future.  Write about every self-awareness exercise or instrument we use in class, explaining what you learned about yourself and how you will use this self-knowledge to improve your leadership.

 

2) Leadership Interview and Personal Plan – Extra Credit Opportunity (3 points)

The goal of this assignment is to provide you with the opportunity to listen to an accomplished leader discuss his or her views on leadership and to consolidate, think through and apply the material of BUS 262 to your future. Please see the web page for instructions on completing this assignment.  Be sure to choose an excellent leader to maximize your learning.

 

Class Contribution and Homework

Your participation in the course will be graded according to the BARS guidelines located at the end of the syllabus, as evaluated by your classmates and me.  

 

 

 

Grading Scale

A = 94-100

B+= 87-89

C+=77-79

D+=67-69

A-=90-93

B =84-86

C =74-76

D =64-66

 

B-=80-83

C-=70-73

D-=60-63

 

 

 

F = <60

 

Writing  Good concise writing is a skill all MBAs should possess. Most people need to have others check and edit their writing, so please seek help if necessary. (See “Writing Help” on the web page). Make sure you do not make the Common Writing Errors posted on the web page.  Points will be subtracted for poorly written work.  All papers should be typed and double-spaced.

If you need a good writing tutor, contact:

Louise Wood, Phone: 408- 298-4295, E-mail: wood.louise@gmail.com

($15-$20/hr depending on travel distance).

Hemanshu Bhusnurmath, Cell Phone:(408) 421 6297, E-mail: hemanshub@yahoo.com

($13/hr)

 

Late Work   Assignments cannot be late unless the instructor has given permission for special exceptions ahead of time.

 

Academic Dishonesty   I want to be sure you get your money's worth out of this course and that you will be able to put what you have learned into practice; that can only happen if you do the work yourself.   Plagiarism is a form of cheating, which consists of taking the ideas, writing, etc. from another and passing them off as one's own (Webster's New World dictionary). Any form of academic dishonesty will result in a course grade of F for ALL parties involved. If you are uncertain about what constitutes plagiarism, go to the SJSU web page and read the Academic Honesty Policy and see the interactive explanation of plagiarism on the SJSU Library Web page.

 


 

Course Outline

 

Date

Topic

Assignment Done Before Class

1

1/19

Leadership Overview

Leadership in Context

Team Formation

Read Clawson, Ch. 1-3

Download “Getting Organized” form on web page

2

1/26

AM

 

Levels of Leadership

Leadership Development

Submit Leader Project Plan

Read Clawson, Ch. 4 Levels of Leadership

Read Kouzes & Posner , Ch. 1-2

Read this article on leadership development:

"Developing Leadership Capability: What's Inside the Black Box" by Jay A. Conger.  Academy of Management Executive, vol. 18(3) 2004: 136-139

3

1/26

PM

 

Clayoquot Simulation – Stakeholder Dialogue

Ethics

Leadership and Gender

Read Clawson, Ch. 5

Prepare your Stakeholder Presentation and team strategy

Gender Leadership Styles

4

 2/16

AM

 

Decoding Behavior

Leader Effectiveness

Emotional Intelligence

Global Leadership

Read Clawson, Ch. 6-9

Read Kouzes & Posner , Ch. 3 & 4 - Team 1 Presents

Global Leadership

5

2/16

PM

.

Resonance

Vision and Charters

Bring PAA – peer review

Read Clawson, Ch. 10 & 12

Read Kouzes & Posner , Ch. 5 & 6  - Team 2 Presents

 

2/23

NO CLASS

 

6

3/2

Leader Communication

Power

Team leadership

Submit PAA

Read Clawson, Ch. 13 & 14

Read Kouzes & Posner , Ch. 7 & 8- Team 3 Presents

Kouzes & Posner, Ch 9 & 10  - Team 4 Presents

7

3/9

 

Organization Change

 

Read Clawson, Ch. 15,16 & Appendix, p. 379-393; Change  

Kouzes & Posner, Ch. 11 &12 - Team 5 Presents content and organizes celebration

Kouzes & Posner, Ch. 13

8

 3/16

Exam

Answer study guide questions for final exam

 

 Behavioral Anchor Rating Scale - Classroom Participation

Name: ________________________________________

 

 

Outstanding Performance (9-10 points)

 

Very Good Performance (8 points)

 

Good/Average Performance (6-7 points)

 

Low Performance (1-5 points)

 

Unacceptable Performance (0 points)

 

 

1.   PLEASE CIRCLE THE SECTION THAT BEST REFLECTS YOUR PARTICIPATION.

 

2.   PLEASE WRITE THE NAMES OF 1 OR 2 PEOPLE WHO CONSISTENTLY DEMONSTRATE "OUTSTANDING" LEVEL PARTICIPATION.