Principle Centered Leadership (mngt-5773) Spring 2016, Online Class, Tentative Course Syllabus
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- Possible Resources for the Moral Leader Paper
- Louis Auchincloss
- Joseph Conrad
- Henrik Ibsen
- David Mamet
- George Bernard Shaw
- Leo Tolstoy
- Moral Leader Course Paper Grading Template
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- Use of Wikipedia .
- Using the SE Library’s Electronic Resources . (Again, available at http://www.se.edu/library/serials-department/electronic-resources/ )
- Family Responsibilities Discrimination: What Employment Counselors Need to Know
- Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White: Has the Supreme Court Opened the Floodgates for Employee Retaliation Lawsuits
- NOT ACCEPTABLE : http://humanresources.about.com/od/glossarys/a/sexualharassdef.htm
Term Paper References. As part of your term paper assignment, you will be asked to submit to BB an entire copy of each reference you used in your paper. For example, if a student uses 7 references in her paper then the Instructor expects to find 7 separate files with each file containing a copy of one ENTIRE ARTICLE. Only submit articles sited in the paper. (If you have questions here then please email the Instructor.) Your Instructor is emphasizing this because some students just have a hard time believing that he wants to see the entire article! As you write your SafeAssignment Term Paper, it will be important for you to document where you obtained the information cited in your report. Your term paper should have a minimum of 7 journal articles (professional peer reviewed articles with a minimum of three references in the article’s list of references). These journal articles will be cited in the paper and in the reference list at the end of your paper (also known as a bibliography or works cited). Each of these journal articles (the entire article) should be saved to your desktop and an electronic copy of each article (the entire article) should be uploaded into BB in case the Instructor wants to read the whole article. To do this go to BB and go to our course and then click on Assignments > Term Paper References and then locate and upload the articles that you saved to your desktop (or other location). Please upload each article as a separate file and name them so that the Instructor can easily distinguish one article from another. The name of the article should correspond to the listing in your list of References in your paper. When you are finished, click Submit. Please submit by 03/02 to avoid any penalties for lateness. When your Instructor reviews your references in BB he should then find at least 7 files with each file having one journal article—the entire article. As a reminder, please do not use Wikipedia, books, or websites as references. There are no points associated with this activity but points will be deducted in the event of insufficient professional references or inappropriate references which will be included in the grade for the SafeAssignment Term Paper. Generally, 100 points deducted for each reference less than 7. Assignment The purpose of the course paper is to help you clarify—and chronicle—your own understanding of moral leadership, particularly as it has evolved during the course. The assignment has three parts:
Selection of topic The protagonist of your paper can be drawn from biographies, autobiographies, novels, drama, and works of history—but not from any readings covered in the course. Students have written successful papers on texts as familiar as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, on novels or biographies I never heard of until the student told me about them, and about a wide range of historical figures and situations, including Thabo Mbeke’s stance on HIV/AIDs, and Anwar Sadat and the Middle East peace process. The two main criteria for selection are: (1) to choose works whose protagonist and situation interest you personally; (2) to select topics that can be effectively covered in a 20-page paper (see “Suggestions,” below). There will be a 200 point deduction per page (or fraction thereof) for each page less than 18. There is a bibliography of readings on ethics and literature provided below to stimulate your thinking. Possible Resources for the Moral Leader Paper The list below is by no means exhaustive, but it contains a number of books, mostly works of fiction, that offer a variety of insights into issues of leadership and responsibility. Select one of these books for your paper. Jonathan Alter, The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. This biography analyzes the background and early actions of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who came to office in 1933 in the heart of the American Depression. Louis Auchincloss, The Rector of Justin. A portrait of the life and work of the founder of a New England prep school—a story of entrepreneurship, idealism, shrewdness, and pragmatism. Louis Auchincloss, I Come as a Thief. Can I resist the flow of success? Do I recognize the hidden hazards of success and the ways to avoid them? Howard Bahr, The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War. This is a novel about the challenges of a returning Confederate soldier as he navigates the transition to civil life, a transformed town, and new and old loyalties and conflicts. Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter. This is Banks’ historical novel about John Brown, American abolitionist and leader of the failed attempt to capture a federal arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, VA. Tom Barbash, all Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick & 9/11. 658 of 1,000 Cantor Fitzgerald employees died at the World Trade Center on September 11th, the single largest loss of any WTC business. It is a chronicle of CEO Howard Lutnick’s actions in response to this organizational and personal crisis. Albert Camus, The Plague. This is a story about the resilience of the human spirit in the face of almost overwhelming horror, as the bubonic plague sweeps through a quarantined city in Algeria. Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep is a classic American detective story, first published in 1939, which can be read as a story about the pursuit of professional excellence and the moral dilemmas arising from dedicated service to a client. Terrence Cheng, Sons of Heaven. Many remember the Tiananmen Square massacre by the photograph of a single student who stands alone, facing a line of incoming government tanks. The identity of this student has never been determined. This novel is a fictional “back story” that creates a description of the student’s life and motivations for the actions he took. Joseph Conrad, Typhoon. A story of moral courage at sea, involving an unlikely hero—a quiet, unassuming ship’s captain. Theodore Dreiser, The Financier. This story is about the rise and fall, and subsequent rise, of a nineteenth-century financier—a counterpart in many respects to 1980s corporate raider Michael Milken. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon. How can leaders and aspiring leaders know if they actually care enough to make their dreams real? Do I have the patience, courage, and tenacity that leadership requires? Allegra Goodman, Intuition. Set in a prestigious medical research laboratory, this novel traces the accusations, and their consequences, that one of the laboratory’s star young postdocs has been falsifying his research results. Nadine Gordimer, My Son’s Story. Gordimer is a Nobel Prize-winning South African writer who has chronicled that country’s search to free itself from apartheid. This novel describes the evolution of a family led by an anti-apartheid activist, and the impact of his actions on his family and the cause. Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action. The non-fiction account upon which a recent movie was based is a fascinating story of moral leadership, in all its complexities, as seen through the efforts of a young lawyer bringing a class-action environmental suit against two large companies. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter. One of the greatest American novels, this is the story of Hester Prynne) a Puritan woman convicted of committing adultery, her husband, and her lover, who is also an admired clergyman. Prynne, in many respects, some surprising, emerged as the moral leader in the story. Joseph Heller, Something Happened. This is a black comedy, by the author of Catch 22, about success in corporate life and a fast-track executive adept at living on the surface of things. Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma. Britain’s Alan Turing (1912-1954) happened to be a mathematical genius. He happened to be a marathon-class amateur runner. And he happened to be a homosexual. The first quality helped Turing construct a rudimentary computer that cracked the code used by the Nazis during the Second World War. The second is neither here nor there, though it did help Turing get from here to there. And the last resulted in a charge of gross indecency in 1952, for which Turing was sentenced to chemical castration. He later committed suicide. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House. The classic play about a wife’s moral choices and her actions of self-liberation, set in Victorian times. Edward P. Jones, The Known World. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and “book of tremendous moral intricacy” (The New Yorker) describes the little-known history of African-Americans who were themselves slave owners. Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains. This book describes the work and life of Dr. Paul Farmer, celebrated infectious-disease specialist and Harvard professor who devotes himself to fighting tuberculosis in rural Haiti. Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible. The story of the quiet and heroic leadership of a mother who takes her children to the Congo, following her missionary husband, and then leaves him and Africa and reassembles a life from the wreckage of these decisions. David Lodge, Nice Work. Is a serious and funny book about what two people learn from the collision of their very different worlds. One is a factory manager; the other a deconstructionist professor of literature. David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross. This is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the brutal competition among a group of real-estate agents. John Marquand, Point of No Return. A successful investment banker returns to his hometown and reflects on the choices that shaped his life. Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman. Do my deepest aspirations impel me forward through hardships, and do they engage others’ aspirations and dreams? Does Willy Loman have a good dream? Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels. This is a great historical novel that tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg in brilliant detail. It presents a wide range of leaders, moral and otherwise, including the remarkable Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara. This is a witty, complex, surprising play about an arms manufacturer and his idealistic daughter. Anita Shreve, The Pilot’s Wife is a story of moral challenges faced by the wife of a secret member of the IRA. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace. One of the great books, worth reading and rereading for a multitude of reasons, among which are Tolstoy’s vivid and unforgettable portraits of men and women who change the world, on both the grand stage of life and in subtle, everyday ways. Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan llyich. The somber tale of an ambitious, successful man and his discovery of the vacuum his life had become. John Updike, Rabbit at Rest. The final book in Updike’s highly acclaimed trilogy recounting both the life of Harry Angstrom, a middle-class everyman, and the evolution of American society from the 1950s to the 1980s. Gore Vidal, Lincoln A long, masterful work of historical fiction that portrays not only the story of Lincoln’s presidency but his thoughts and feelings, as well as those of the people Lincoln lived and worked with. Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full. Two long, entertaining, often satirical portraits of American business life and society. The first views the world through the experience of a New York investment banker during the 1980s: the second through an Atlanta real-estate developer during the 1990s. Historical Protagonists Some examples of historical figures that students have written about include:
Suggestions First, you should err on the side of depth rather than breadth. You will find it more rewarding to describe something, provide an analysis of it, and connect it to your own insights if you focus on one (or at most two) characters facing one or two decisions/actions/events/episodes that you believe demonstrate moral leadership. It is preferable to dig deeper into one or two situations than to attempt a broad sweep of multiple situations, especially those involving an array of characters. Second, an important aspect of this paper is showing how your thinking has been influenced by the stories we have read, the themes that have been raised, and the discussions you have participated in. For example, in addition to reflecting on moral leadership, your analysis may include a discussion of the type of moral challenge the protagonist faces, or whether you see evidence of what you would consider to be moral reasoning. You may also find it helpful to contrast the decisions and actions of the protagonist with protagonists and situations read about during the course. Here, depth is preferable to breadth. This may mean drawing fewer lessons, but presenting each with greater detail and fuller analysis. It generally means drawing upon fewer rather than more works of literature. Third, you will find the paper more valuable to the extent that the lessons you draw are personal. You should write this paper for yourself and make it an opportunity for reflection on aspects of moral leadership that matter to you. You have documented your incoming definition of moral leadership on your Moral Leader class card, and you may want to reflect on how your ideas about this concept have evolved through the course, the class discussions, and the process of writing your paper. This is the grading template that I will use. Moral Leader Course Paper Grading Template Coherence: Analysis of protagonist/situation and definition of moral leadership ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
____________________________________________________________________________________________'>______________________________________________________________________________________________'>Total Score ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Integration of course themes/readings: Whether what happened in the course is meaningfully applied to the argument made. A degree of application running from parroting to transformation of the topic and student --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
____________________________________________________________________________________________ Authenticity/quality of reflection: Integration of student’s own viewpoint and quality of “implications” section on personal learning/definition of moral leadership --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Overall Score ______________________________________________________ Comments: _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES Information regarding the library and references as well as other online resources and the library’s electronic databases: http://www.se.edu/library/serials-department/electronic-resources/. The information below provides some information on the references desired in various written assignments (including Discussion Boards). Certainly, our competent library staff will be able to assist students with their searches.
The Instructor is not interested in students using web sites or books as references. The following link provides an example of an article that was taken from the Internet and is NOT ACCEPTABLE: http://humanresources.about.com/od/glossarys/a/sexualharassdef.htm. The following posting (as an example) is also NOT ACCEPTABLE as a reference because it was taken from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment. Students will also be asked to attach a copy of the entire article to certain papers (not just provide a link) so that the Instructor might be able to quickly review the article if desired. To help students find pertinent professional articles (references with references) students should use the electronic resources from SE’s library. To do so, go to the following link: http://www.se.edu/library/serials-department/electronic-resources/. There is one key database that the Instructor has found particularly helpful (although others may be helpful): EBSCOHOST. To access this database students must have their SE user name and password which they received. All electronic resources are available on and off campus, 24/7 to SE staff and students. Once a student is in EBSCOHOST he or she should check (√) check at least the boxes for Academic Search Premier, Business Search Premier, PsycARTICLES, and PsycINFO. Then click “Continue” located at the top or bottom of the page. On the next page go to the “Limit your results” section of the page and check (√) the boxes for “Full Text,” “Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals,” and “References Available.” Then in the search box at the top of the page the student should enter their search terms (e.g., extinction) in the box and then press “Search”. A basic search is a quick and easy way to get results. It uses free text searching which finds any mention of a student search term in the database records. However, this also means that a student’s subject may not be the main focus of the articles, so be prepared to retrieve some articles of only marginal interest. Students must be clear about the subject of their search which will often involve more than one topic. Identify the single words or short phrases which describe the key elements and then think of any synonyms, related words, acronyms or common abbreviations which are associated with them. Creativity is especially important here. Searching for all these possibilities will increase the number of hits. Consider the following:
When beginning a search, students should also consider the following:
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