Course Description:

 

This was a very interesting introductory course for me, as it gave me an opportunity to learn the principles of Organizational Leadership and learn about how Organizational Leadership would be a big part of my development as a leader. This class allowed me to think about what leadership meant to me, as well as how leadership evolved for me throughout my introduction to the entire program of Organizational Leadership at Gonzaga. Along the way, I learned from the themes of: “What don’t I want as a leader?”, “What do I want as a leader?”, “What is required of me to be a leader?”, and “How will I lead?”. These were important thoughts, because it allowed me to collaborate with fellow classmates learning how Organizational Leadership would be important in the workplace as well as in personal development. I learned about how to self-reflect on my own leadership and gain insight on how I could apply this with others around me in the workplace and in my own leadership. Ultimately, I was able to learn about what makes effective leadership and what causes dysfunctional leadership through shared experiences with others via discussion, writing papers via self-reflection, and through questioning the different ideals that make up Organizational Leadership.

 

Course Artifact:

 

I’ve supplemented this with the paper I wrote for Module One of this class, which looks into the ideas of organizational dysfunction, the diagnosis and implementation of change, and the positive and negatives of how organizational change can be implemented.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course Materials:

 

Books:

Eliot, T. S. (1964). Murder in the cathedral. New York: Harvest.

 

Freire, P. (2000). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Continuum.

 

Kouzes, J. M. & Posner, B. Z. (2008). The leadership challenge. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

Palmer, P. J. (2007). The courage to teach. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

Wheatley, M. J. (2006). Leadership and the new science: Discovering order in a chaotic world. New York: Barrett-Koehler.

 

Yukl, G. A. (2013).  Leadership in organizations.   Prentice Hall PTR: Upper Saddle River.

 

Films:

Duigan, J. (Director).  (1989/2009).  Romero [Motion picture].  United States: Vision Video.

 

Lineman, F. (Director).  (1966/1999).  A man for all seasons [Motion picture]. United States: Columbia Tri-Star.

 

Luhrmann, B.  (1993/2002).  Strictly ballroom [Motion picture].  United States: Miramax.