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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - MAN6107
Tracking Number - 2198

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Current Status: Approved, Permanent Archive - 2010-06-23
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: Change
Course Change Information (for course changes only): Change title from Leadership Perspectives to: Leading Sustainable Enterprise: Goals and Processes Change Abbreviated title to: Lead Sus Ent: Goals & Processe Change credit hours to variable: 2-3 hours
Comments: College approved 4/6/10; Grad Council approved 4/19/10; Title and variable hours confirmed 6/21/10; SCNS liaison notified 6/21/10. SCNS approved. Post in Banner. Effective 8/1/2010


Detail Information

  1. Date & Time Submitted: 2009-09-29
  2. Department: Management
  3. College: BA
  4. Budget Account Number: 140500
  5. Contact Person: Dr. Alan Balfour
  6. Phone: 9741785
  7. Email: abalfour@coba.usf.edu
  8. Prefix: MAN
  9. Number: 6107
  10. Full Title: Leadership Perspective
  11. Credit Hours: 3
  12. Section Type: D - Discussion (Primarily)
  13. Is the course title variable?: N
  14. Is a permit required for registration?: N
  15. Are the credit hours variable?: N
  16. Is this course repeatable?:
  17. If repeatable, how many times?: 0
  18. Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Leadership Perspective
  19. Course Online?: C - Face-to-face (0% online)
  20. Percentage Online: 0
  21. Grading Option: R - Regular
  22. Prerequisites: None
  23. Corequisites: None
  24. Course Description: Examines the perspective required of the manager/leader/facilitator in light of personal, organizational, and societal needs judged by standards of both effectiveness and virtue. The focus is particularly on leadership of professionals. It e

  25. Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Needed for program/concentration/certificate change
  26. What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? 2 sections of 30-50 per academic year.
  27. Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, 3 or more times
  28. What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Provides capstone synthesis and assessment necessary for program outcome evaluation.
  29. Objectives: Leadership Perspective develops personal qualities that enhance your capacity to lead. It addresses both one’s philosophical orientation and one’s behavior. In short, it is about how effective leaders think and how they act. It intends to inspire leadership that is both effective and virtuous.

    In class you will learn philosophy, theory, and methods to produce effective leadership of sustainable organizations. You will enhance your ability to promote the “triple bottom line” of prosperity, social justice, and concern for the natural environment. You will learn what effective leader behavior is and the importance of modeling it. You will also learn the benefits of conceiving of organizations as communities rather than as a jungle or a war zone or a competition. You will learn two extremely fundamental insights into leadership success too seldom practiced in America. They are: 1) To concentrate on inputs, not outcomes. American managers are obsessed with outcomes. Therefore, they don’t achieve them as well as they might; and, 2) To promote cooperation, not competition, among organizational members. American managers are also obsessed with competition. Deliberately fostering it can be an extremely widespread, extremely costly mistake. Fostering cooperation, instead, absolutely produces better results. You will further recognize the rewards of virtuous behavior and to strive for a life that benefits yourself, your organization, and your world. If you don’t intentionally aim at these targets, it is unlikely that you will hit them.

  30. Learning Outcomes: At the end of this course the student should have developed the ability to:

    1. Recognize the role of ethics and virtue in creating organizational success;

    2. Recognize the value of conceiving of the corporation as a community;

    3. Recognize the role business plays in the natural environment;

    4. Practice effective self-leadership behaviors;

    5. Practice leadership behaviors that result in organizational success; and, for students taking the third credit hour;

    6. Realize the cultural limitations of values and behavior (cultural intelligence) or improve your listening skills.

  31. Major Topics: Major Topics

    * Business leader organizational, societal, and natural environment responsibilities

    * Mastering self-leadership

    *Virtuous and effective leadership values and behaviors

  32. Textbooks: The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner, 4th Edition, ISBN: 13:978-0-7879-8491-2, Publixhed by Jossey-Bass 2007

    The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, by Paul Hawken, ISBN: 0-88730-655-1, HarperCollines Publishers, Inc., 1993

    Mastering Self-Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence, by Chritopher P. Neck and Charles C. Manz. 5th Ed., ISBN: 13:978-0-13-06647-7, Presntice Hall, 2010

    A Better Way to Think about Business: How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success, Robert C. Solomon, ISBN: 0-19-511-238-5, Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.

  33. Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: See syllabus
  34. Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: See syllabus
  35. Assignments, Exams and Tests: See syllabus
  36. Attendance Policy: See syllabus
  37. Policy on Make-up Work: See syllabus
  38. Program This Course Supports: Master of Science in Management MSM and Master of Business Admin (MBA)
  39. Course Concurrence Information: Ph.D. in Management or closely related field.


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