ORG560: Leadership Development Credit Hours: 3 Contact Hours: This is a 3-credit course, offered in accelerated format. This means that 16 weeks of material is covered in 8 weeks. The exact number of hours per week that you can expect to spend on each course will vary based upon the weekly coursework, as well as your study style and preferences. You should plan to spend 10-25 hours per week in each course reading material, interacting on the discussion boards, writing papers, completing projects, and doing research. Course Description and Outcomes This course starts out with an introduction to leadership. Some of the topics include the definition and description of leadership, the meaning of leadership, processes involved in leadership, and contemporary issues in leadership. The different theories and approaches to leadership are explored, as well. These include the Traits, Skills, and Styles approaches to leadership, as well as situational and contingency approaches. From there, different leadership theories are explored, including Path-Goal, LMX, Charismatic, Transformational, and Team leadership theories. Each is looked at from multiple perspectives. From there, the course moves on to the topics of gender and culture in leadership, and looks at the part gender and culture play in leadership style and organizational effectiveness. Multiple cultures are compared in relationship to leadership styles and approaches. Finally, the learner will examine ethical issues in leadership. Fairness, trust, and ethical behavior are explored, and multiple perspectives on ethical leadership are discussed. Finally, the principles of ethical leadership are presented and examined. Course Learning Outcomes: 1. Learners will analyze multiple leadership approaches and theories to determine the learner s strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies as a leader. 2. Learners will analyze the role that leaders play in critical thinking, decision making, innovation, and change within an organization. 3. Learners will evaluate the role that culture and gender play on leadership practices and styles in an organization. Participation & Attendance Prompt and consistent attendance in your online courses is essential for your success at CSU-Global Campus. Failure to verify your attendance within the first 7 days of this course may result in your withdrawal. If for some reason you would like to drop a course, please contact your advisor. Online classes have deadlines, assignments, and participation requirements just like on-campus classes. Budget your time carefully and keep an open line of communication with your instructor. If you are having technical
problems, problems with your assignments, or other problems that are impeding your progress, let your instructor know as soon as possible. Course Materials Textbook Information is located in the CSU-Global Booklist on the Student Portal. Course Schedule Due Dates The Academic Week at CSU-Global begins on Monday and ends the following Sunday. Discussion Boards: The original post must be completed by Thursday at 12 midnight MT and Peer Responses posted by Sunday 12 midnight MT. Late posts may not be awarded points. Critical Thinking Activities: Assignments are due Sunday at 12 midnight MT. Week # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Readings Assignments Chapter 1 in Leadership: Theory and Practice Discussion Board (25) Chapters 2, 3 & 4 in Leadership: Theory and Practice Discussion Board (25) Chapters 5, 6, 7 & 8 in Leadership: Theory and Practice Discussion Board (25) Chapters 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 in Leadership: Theory and Practice Discussion Board (25) Chapter 14 in Leadership: Theory and Practice Discussion Board (25) Chapter 15 in Leadership: Theory and Practice Discussion Board (25) Chapter 1 in Leadership: Theory and Practice (Review) Discussion Board (25) Critical Thinking (60) Chapter 16 in Leadership: Theory and Practice Discussion Board (25) Portfolio Assignment Assignment Details This course includes the following assignments/projects: Week 1 Critical Thinking: Leadership (65 points) Based solely on past knowledgee and education, in a one-page essay you will describe what you feel your personal leadership style is. Make sure to discuss the setting in which you can apply this style. Explain how you feel you adopted this leadership style, how you feel it has helped or hindered you as a leader,
Week 2 and what you hope to develop in terms of leadership skills. Submit a Word document with your answers written as an essay in CSU-Global APA format. Portfolio Milestone: Review the portfolio project and the grading rubric, and ask your instructor if you have any questions about the portfolio project. Critical Thinking: Case Study 3.3 (65 points) Read Case Study 3.3 - Andy's Recipe Leadership Theory and Practice (Northouse) Answer the three questions at the end of the case study. Provide research from two sources other than our course textbooks that either supports or contradicts your analysis. Your response should be twothree pages in addition to your cover page and your reference page, submitted as a Word document. Note: Work to incorporate your questions and answers into a fluid essay rather than merely writing the questions and adding the answers which follow. Make this a fluid document that weaves a story of the protagonist's situation! Portfolio Milestone: Begin the outline of your paper, what topics you may include, and how you will structure the paper. You can begin writing the first sections of the paper based on the first two modules of the course. Week 3 Week 4 Critical Thinking: Case 5.2 (65 points) Read Case 5.2 Why Aren t They Listening? in Leadership Theory and Practice (Northouse) Answer the four questions at the end of the case study. Provide research from two sources other than our course textbooks that either supports or contradicts your analysis. Your response should be twothree pages in addition to your cover page and your reference page, submitted as a Word document. Again, please weave the questions and answers into one fluid essay. Critical Thinking: The Heart of Leadership (65 points) For each of the three leadership styles below, describe an organizational scenario or case study derived from your experience or imagination and explain how the leadership style can be applied to your scenario. 1. The Charismatic Approach to leadership. 2. The Transformational Approach to leadership. 3. The Team Approach to leadership.
Week 5 Week 6 Be sure to provide the specifics of the situation for each case and state how the approach would be applied both as a lens from which to view the problem and also as a platform from which to make recommendations to address the problem. To reiterate, you will provide one organizational dilemma and apply approach number 1; you will offer a second and different organizational problem and apply approach number 2; and finally, you will offer a third and different company issue and apply approach number 3. Your paper should be 2-3 pages in length. Be sure to format your paper and cite all sources per CSU- Global guidelines for APA Style. Critical Thinking: Glass Ceiling (65 points) Numerous examples show women succeeding in traditionally male-dominated professions. But if success is defined as actually running a company, a corporation, or even a country, we count 19 female CEO s running Fortune 500 companies. This sounds solid until realizing this is a small 3.8%. Over 70 women serve in Congress. This, too, seems applause-worthy, unless you count all 535 seats in both the House and Senate. That means women hold seats in only 13.8% of Congress despite being 52% of the voting population of America. Women have certainly come a long way but still have a very long way to go before they have an equal share of the real power in this country. Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Nancy Pelosi are four women leaders who have broken the glass ceiling in the world of politics and leadership. Please describe one specific, predominant, and common characteristic that three of these superwomen possess that might account for their breaking the glass ceiling. Use the following questions to guide your supportive writing: How specifically is this characteristic demonstrated? How do these women apply this characteristic in their decision making, strategic planning, or problem solving? Are these characteristics an offshoot of a traditionally male-oriented style? If so, which male leader do they most resemble? Based on this predominant characteristic, which leadership theory would they utilize most effectively? This assignment should range between three and five pages in length and include a cover page and a reference page and utilize full and accurate APA documentation. At least two additional sources beyond the textbook should be used. Please thoroughly review the grading rubric to assist you with the formation of your essay. Critical Thinking: Stress (65 points) Stress in the workplace, especially during times of organizational change, is common. As more organizations find themselves in a Change or Die situation, the levels of stress are on the rise (Deutschman, 2007).
Week 7 Week 8 Describe a time when you experienced a significant change in your life (preferably at your current place of work). Be sure to explain the following: What were the reasons for the change? Who were the players manipulating, involved in, and/or affected by this change? What (if any) were the leadership strategies/theories used to assist with the change? If none were used, what might have been applied as a means of smoothing the transition? How long did the complete transition take and why? What were the positive and negative results of this change? Then, review the attached document titled Survival Guide for Basic Mistakes and describe three basic mistakes made by you, a supervisor, a coworker, or a combination of the three during the described time of change. Offer suggestions from the survival guide as well as theory from the Northouse text for how the change might have gone more smoothly. Survival_Mistakes.pdf This assignment should range between 3 and 5 pages in length and include a cover page and a reference page and utilize full and accurate APA documentation. At least two additional sources beyond the textbook and the survival guide should be used. Please thoroughly review the grading rubric to assist you with the formation of your essay. Crafting the Problem Statement (60 Points) Leaders and managers of organizations are charged with solving problems every day. To address and solve organizational issues requires structure and frameworks such as theories and concepts that explain what is going on around us. This Critical Thinking assignment is designed to help decision makers develop skills associated with framing, articulating, and solving management questions as part of ensuring that they have clearly and correctly identified the fundamental problem. Begin by reviewing Page IV in the Module 7 lecture on business problem statements. Choose two of the case studies from Modules 2 and 3 in this course. For each case study, complete the Problem Statement Worksheet. Follow the questions in the worksheet to create a problem statement that clearly describes each element. Each problem statement should meet the follow requirements: o 150-300 words in length o Clear, concise academic writing style o o Third person Graduate CSU-Global formatting standards including title page, citations, double spacing, and references For additional examples of problem statements, visit the Capstone Resources link on the CSU-Global Campus Library tab in Blackboard, to review Capstone studies completed by previous students. Portfolio Milestone: Review the portfolio project and the grading rubric, and ask your instructor if you have any questions about the portfolio project. Work on your formatting and proofreading of your overall project this week, and put it into a nice, presentable, CSU-Global APA formatted document. If you are still adding content, you will want to complete that component as soon as possible. This is to be turned in by the end of next week.
Portfolio Assignment (350 points) For this portfolio assignment, you will need to have completed the self-assessments required in the Check Your Understanding Activities. You will be analyzing and evaluating your own leadership development in multiple areas. The purpose of this project is to provide you the tools to create a selfawareness of your own strengths and weaknesses as a leader, as well as to help you improve overall in your leadership abilities. The portfolio should be in the form of a CSU-Global APA formatted essay. It is essential that throughout the project you are using outside scholarly references, and you are analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating the research on each of the topics listed in the project. Additionally, you should be synthesizing the information from the required course readings and the discussion postings to provide another perspective on the paper. The entire portfolio project is worth 35% of your overall grade for this course. The paper should be a minimum of 10 double-spaced pages. You will need to address each of the following as they relate to your leadership development. Each question is worth equal value. Reference the Portfolio Project rubric as you complete your project. 1. Please provide a background of yourself, including where you live, what you do for a living, and your previous leadership experience either formal or informal. This will provide a good foundation for the rest of the project. 2. Self-Confidence is a large portion of developing as a leader. Where are you currently in regard to self-confidence based on the self-assessment from Module 1? What does this mean for you as a leader? What steps can you take to improve your self-confidence score? 3. Leadership traits, skills and styles are all relevant in leaders today. Where are you currently in regard to traits, skills and styles as they relate to leadership based on the self-assessments from Module 2? What does this mean for you as a leader? What steps can you take to improve these scores to become a more effective leader? 4. Some approaches to leadership include situational, Path-Goal, and Leader Member Exchange. Where are you currently in regard to these three approaches based on the self-assessments from Module 3? What does this mean for you as a leader? What steps can you take to improve upon these areas? 5. Other approaches to leadership include Team Leadership, Collaborative Leadership, Participatory Leadership and Transformational Leadership. Where are you currently in regard to these approaches based on the self-assessments from Module 4? What does this mean for you as a leader? What steps can you take to improve upon these areas? 6. It is important to understand what type of leader you are. In regard to gender, the Gender- Leader Implicit Association Test and Masculinity-Femininity Self-Assessments can provide further insight into your leadership styles. Where are you in regard to these assessments from Module 5? What does this mean for you as a leader? What steps can you take to improve in these areas? 7. Culture plays an important role in leadership today. The Culture Questionnaire and the Individualism-Collectivism Self-Assessments from Modules 6 and 7 can provide insight into the dimension of culture and leadership. Where are you currently in regard to cultural aspects of leadership? What does this mean for you as a leader? What steps can you take to improve in these areas? 8. Integrity and Trust are essential to successful leadership. Where are you currently in regard to trust and integrity as shown in the self-assessments from Module 8? What does this mean for you as a leader? What steps can you take to improve in these areas? 9. How do you compare your current leadership based on the previous assessments to where you want to be as a leader? Are you close to where you want to be? Are you better off than you
thought? Would other people agree with your self-assessments, or do you think that answers would be different if they came from your coworkers, superiors, or subordinates? How would they differ? 10. How do you feel you compare in your current leadership as compared to your best examples of great leadership? This could be people at work, people in your personal life, etc. What qualities do you have that they don t? What qualities do they have that you don t? How do you achieve that level of leadership? For project details, see the Portfolio Project Description, which can be accessed from the Week 8 Assignments page. Course Policies Course Grading 20% Discussion Participation 45% Critical Thinking Activities 35% Final Portfolio Paper Grading Scale and Policies A 95.0 100 A- 90.0 94.9 B+ 86.7 89.9 B 83.3 86.6 B- 80.0 83.2 C+ 75.0 79.9 C 70.0 74.9 D 60.0 69.9 F 59.9 or below In-Classroom Policies For information on late work and Incomplete grade policies, please refer to our In-Classroom Student Policies and Guidelines or the Academic Catalog for comprehensive documentation of CSU-Global institutional policies. Academic Integrity Students must assume responsibility for maintaining honesty in all work submitted for credit and in any other work designated by the instructor of the course. Academic dishonesty includes cheating, fabrication, facilitating academic dishonesty, plagiarism, reusing /re-purposing your own work (see CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements for percentage of repurposed work that can be used in an assignment), unauthorized possession of academic materials, and unauthorized collaboration. The CSU-Global Library provides information on how students can avoid plagiarism by understanding what it is and how to use the Library and Internet resources. Citing Sources with APA Style All students are expected to follow the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements when citing in APA (based on the APA Style Manual, 6th edition) for all assignments. For details on CSU-Globall APA style, please review the APA resources within the CSU-Global Library under the APA Guide & Resources link. A link to this document should also be provided within most assignment descriptions on your course s Assignments page.
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