BA 410

Spring 1999

Leadership Course Outline

Class
Date
Day
Topics
Readings, Cases, Assignments
1
3/29
M

Course introduction

Review course syllabus

2
3/31
W

Changing nature of
organizations and implications for leadership and management

Reading: The horizontal corporation
Case: Making local knowledge global

3
4/5
M

Managing
organizations

Assignment Due: SSS Software in-basket exercise (W&C, p. 23)
Reading: Want to be a manager?

4
4/7
W

Self-awareness

Assignment Due: Self-assessment
instruments (to be discussed in class)
Readings: W&C, Chap. 1
What makes a leader?

5
4/12
M

Managing stress

Readings: W&C, Chap. 2
The daddy trap

6
4/14
W

Problem solving

Reading: W&C, Chap. 3

7
4/19
M

Creative problem
solving

Group 1 Case Presentation:
The expectant executive and the endangered promotion

8
4/21
W

Interpersonal
communication

Readings: W&C, Chap. 4
Group 2 Case Presentation: The case of the floundering expatriate

9
4/26
M

Interpersonal
communication

Midterm Exam 1:
W&C, Chapters 1-4
Bennis, Chapters 1-5

10
4/28
W

Influencing others

Reading: W&C, Chap. 5

11
5/3
M

Influencing others

Group 3 Case Presentation: The memo every woman keeps in her desk

12
5/5
W

Motivating others

Readings: W&C, Chap. 6
Risky business: The new pay game
Kentucky teachers get a bonus

13
5/10
M

Motivating others

Group 4 Case Presentation:
Growing pains

14
5/12
W

Managing conflict

Reading: W&C, Chap. 7
Group 5 Case Presentation:
When consultants and clients clash

15
5/17
M

Empowering and
delegating

Reading: W&C, Chap. 8
Group 6 Case Presentation:
The empowerment effort that came undone

16
5/19
W

Leadership: Vision,
direction, and results

Reading: Review Bennis
Midterm Exam #2:
W&C, Chapters 5-8
Bennis, Chapters 6-10

17
5/24
M

Leadership: Charisma

Reading: How Jack runs GE
What exactly is charisma?

18
5/26
W

Leadership:
Managing change

Assignment Due: Development Plan
Reading: The Spanish Inquisition
The necessary art of persuasion

19
5/31
M

Memorial Day
Holiday

No class scheduled

20
6/2

W

Leadership: Making
tough decisions

Case: Alan Hirschfield at Columbia Pictures

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