HUMN 270 - Issues In Leadership

3 Credit (3 lecture, 0 lab) 3 Contact Hours [ENGL 100 ]

1. Recognize leadership and develop a personal understanding of what constitutes the effective exercise of leadership.
2. Define leadership in terms of the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for effective leadership.
3. Identify the assumptions underlying the leadership philosophies revealed in literature and film. 
4. Establish a foundation for a personal leadership philosophy, based on an enhanced understanding of self.
5. Appreciate the contributions of classic case studies and leadership profiles for assisting with the development of a personal philosophy of leadership.

Goal 2:  Explore the relationship between leadership and service.  

1. Understand the paradoxes inherent in the concept of servant leadership.
2. Recognize the need for servant-leadership and its benefits in organizations or society.
3. Identify the qualities and values important to the exercise of servant leadership.
4. Examine the role of individual initiatives for combating evil and spreading good in the world.
5. Discover the impact of the exercise of servant-leadership in many settings.
6. Recognize the benefits for organizations of serving others and society.
7. Appreciate the contributions made by the humanities toward understanding the concept and importance of servant-leadership.  

Goal 3:  Understand ethical leadership.  

1. Recognize the impact ethical behavior has on effective leadership.
2. Define the elements of ethical leadership.
3. Examine the nature of attitude and value acquisition and the influence they have on ethical decisions.
4. Evaluate personal ethical priorities.
5. Understand the origin of organizational ethics and the influence they exert upon the lives of people in the organization. 
6. Appreciate the contributions made by classic case studies and leadership profiles toward understanding ethical leadership.  

Goal 4:  Articulate a vision.   

1. Recognize specific skills and techniques to affect the quality of the communication process.
2. Evaluate the effectiveness of personal communication technique.
3. Identify the elements of successful intragroup and intergroup communication.
4. Develop and articulate a personal mission statement.
5. Consider potential strategies available to enhance communication effectiveness.
6. Apply the skills and techniques used in effective communication.
7. Appreciate the contributions made by classic case studies and leadership profiles toward understanding the concept and importance of articulating a vision.

Goal 5:  Investigate the principles of team-building.

1. Identify the foundations of effective teamwork.
2. Recognize the significance of team-building as a leadership skill.
3. Recognize the role of teams within an organization.
4. Describe ways to augment team-building efforts and improve team-work.
5. Appreciate the contribution made by classic case studies and leadership profiles toward an understanding of team-building.   

Goal 6:  Examine the importance of leading with goals.

1. Recognize the importance of clearly defined goals for effective leadership.
2. Recognize the criteria for effective goal setting in various settings.
3. Formulate personal goals that translate into specific actions.
4. Apply concepts of personal goal setting to personal, interpersonal, and career development.
5. Appreciate the contributions made by the humanities toward an understanding of leading with goals.  

Goal 7:  Analyze the role of decision-making in effective leadership.  

1. Identify personal decision-making strategies.
2. Recognize the role of leadership in effective group decision-making.
3. Recognize the roles of cooperation and debate in the decision-making process.
4. Understand the impact of perspective and advocacy in decision-making.
5. Apply techniques that facilitate effective decision-making and avoid groupthink.
6. Appreciate the contributions made by classic case studies and leadership profiles toward understanding the concept of effective decision-making.  

Goal 8:  Identify the relationship between effective leadership and conflict management.  

1. Recognize the importance of a leader’s role in guiding through conflict.
2. Understand that conflict is an ever-present element in most organizations.
3. Differentiate between dysfunctional, destructive conflict and functional, creative conflict.
4. Identify various types of interpersonal conflict.
5. Identify practical approaches and techniques for guiding through conflict. 
6. Appreciate the contributions made by classic case studies and leadership profiles toward understanding the concept of conflict management.  

Goal 9:  Assess the role of change in effective leadership.

1. Recognize the importance of recognizing and initiating change as a leadership skill.
2. Identify positive and negative effects of change within an organization, group, community or institution.
3. Describe the leader’s role to realize change within his/her organization.
4. Evaluate personal readiness to respond to change or adapt to change as a leader.
5. Discuss ways to overcome resistance to change.
6. Appreciate the contributions made by classic case studies and leadership profiles toward understanding the concept of change.   

Goal 10:  Discuss the ways in which an effective leader empowers others.  

1. Distinguish between transactional and transformational leadership.
2. Understand the relationship between power, delegation, and empowerment.
3. Define the principles of empowerment necessary for the effective exercise of leadership.
4. Recognize the benefits of effective empowerment.
5. Understand “emotional intelligence” and “social intelligence” and their correlation in empowering others.
6. Appreciate the contributions made by classic case studies and leadership profiles toward understanding the concept of empowerment.   

Goal 11:  Explore the history of leadership studies.

1. Distinguish among the main schools of leadership studies or theories.  
2. Explain how theories of leadership and leadership studies changed thorough history.
3. Recognize how leadership reflections the dominant leadership theory of the time.
4. Appreciate the contributions made by the humanities toward understanding the history of leadership studies.