I.
Locator Information
Telephone:
672-1247 Alt.
Phone: 672-1573 (Ms. Lashley)
Office hours: TR 9:30-11 a.m., MW 1 p.m.-3 p.m., MW 5:30-6 p.m.
class
website http://spacer.uncfsu.edu/f_dowdle/index.htm Email: adowdle@uncfsu.edu
II. Course Description:
Political Science 312 is a course focusing on
leadership styles, human motivations, and basic problems of management,
including decision-making, communications, and public relations. The class will examine major theories and
research on leadership, with an emphasis on applied techniques designed to
improve managerial skills.
III. Textbook:
Gary
Yukl. Leadership in Organizations,
fourth edition. (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1998).
IV. Course Objectives:
1. Students
should be able to define leadership.
2. Students should be able to discuss the patterns of managerial activities.
3. Students
should be able to compare and contrast the results of the Michigan and Ohio
State leadership studies.
4. Students
should be able to identify the basic components of participative leadership.
5. Students
should be able to define the different dyadic-role making theories.
6. Students
should be able to define power and identify its sources.
7. Students should
be able to discuss different elements of charismatic leadership.
8. Students should be able to define transformational and cultural leadership.
V. Evaluation Criteria:
Test
One 25%
Test
Two 25%
Final
25%
Case
Studies 25%
Grading
scale
A
92-100
B
83-91
C
73-82
D
64-72
F
63 or less
VI. Course Requirements
The
final grade for this class will be based on four components. Students will have
a two tests and a final. The tests will include essay and short identification
sections. The fourth element requires
students (1) write out summaries of six sets of case studies in the book and
(2) discuss the individual cases in class.
VII: Course Schedule
(tentative):
WEEK
I: Introduction
T -
Orientation
R-
Read Chapter one / Discussion of case study method
WEEK
II: Managerial Work
T -
read Chapter two
R -
cases pp.42-45
WEEK
III: Research on Effective Leadership
T -
read Chapter three
R -
cases pp.66-68
WEEK
IV: Applied Behaviors in Leadership
T -
read Chapters four and five
R-
cases pp.91-93, 116-118
WEEK
V: Models of Leadership
T-Read
Chapters six and seven
R-
review for Test one
WEEK
VI: General Tenets of Leadership
T-
Test one
R -
cases pp. 146-148, 171-174
WEEK
VII: Power
T&R-
Read Chapter eight
WEEK
VIII: Influence and Effectiveness
T-cases
pp. 203-206
R-
Read Chapters nine and ten
WEEK
IX: Spring Break
WEEK
X: Different Styles of Leadership
T -
Read Chapter twelve
R -
Read Chapter thirteen
WEEK
XI: Different Styles of Leadership (continued)
T -
cases pp. 231-233, 320-323
R -
Review for Test two
WEEK
XII:
T -
Test two
R -
Read Chapters fourteen and fifteen
WEEK
XIII
T -
cases pp.376-379, 405-406
R -
Read Chapter sixteen
WEEK
XIV:
T -
Read Chapter seventeen
R -
cases pp. 434-437, 462-465
WEEK
XV: Can Leadership Be Cultivated?
T-Read
Chapter eighteen
R-
No class
WEEK
XVI: Summary
T-Read
Chapter nineteen
R-
review for final
WEEK
XVII: Final Examination
IX. Teaching Strategies
The
instructor will lecture approximately fifty percent of classtime. The remainder of the time will consist of
testing and student discussion of case studies.