BA 3345.

HON Introduction to Leading and Managing

(3 credit hours)

Day and Time: Mondays: 1.00 to 3.45 PM

Place: SOM 2.902
Instructors: Jerry Hoag [SOM 2.418] and Padmakumar Nair [SOM 4.208]
Telephone: 972-883-4785
Email: jhoag@utdallas.edu
Office hours: By appointment

Text books:
No text book

This course will deal with theories and techniques of leadership and management. The
course will start with a general overview of major theories in the areas of leadership and
management. The main focus of this course is on the relationship between individual
action and group performance and ultimately the performance of the organization as a
whole.

A major highlight of this course is that we will discuss in detail how Personality and
Theory of Life influences intentions and behaviors. We will also discuss current ethical
dilemmas faced by business (options debacle) and government leaders (warrant-less
phone taps).

In addition to what has been mentioned above, special attention will be given to the
following topics to deal with changing internal and external environment of organizations.

9 Motivation and Leadership

9 Decision Making
9 Leadership and Ethics
9 Leadership and Power

Evaluation: There are several group reading assignments and one Group Research
Project for every group, one individual paper and one mid-term multiple-choice exam.

Group presentations (readings) and class participation: 40%

Mid-term Exam: 20%
Individual Assignment 20%
Final Group Project 20%
Assignments:
Group and Individual: In this assignment you will have to make a group presentation
and an individual paper of about 1000 words. The group assignment should be presented
as a power point presentation. Pick an organizational leader who is/was in charge of a
company which has gone through ups and downs during the tenure of the leader. Some of
the recent examples are leaders of Amazon, Sun Microsystems, K-Mart, Boeing, GM,
Ford, ABB, Sony, 3M, Eastman Kodak, DuPont, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Dow
Chemical, Caterpillar, IBM, HP, Dell, TI, P&G, McDonald’s, Merck, AOL and Walt
Disney.

After identifying the leader, describe how the press (or other experts including analysts,
“gurus’, consultants and professors) viewed her/his leadership style and effectiveness.
Then analyze how consistent were their views over the years you have surveyed. Ask
yourself questions like what could we learn from these experts on effective leadership.
That will help you prepare a critical paper on this topic. Remember, the goal of this
assignment is to demonstrate the complexity of developing predictive theories on leading
and managing. You can collect news items from regular news papers, business news
papers (Fortune, Business Week and Economist etc.), books or any other source.

The individual paper is due on November 19th. As a group you will give a 5 minutes pre-
presentation on October 8th and 15 min final presentation on this topic on November
26th . Also please send me the presentation on or before Nov. 25th (at least a day before
your actual presentation).

CLASS SCHEDULE
Date Content
Week 1 Syllabus, Class expectations, and General Introduction
August 20
2007
Week 2 Understanding Self and Others
August 27
2007 Reading 1
Reading 2

Week 3 No class
September 03
2007
Week 4 Understanding Self and Others (MBTI) (Continued…)
September 10
2007 Reading 3
Reading 4

Week 5 Leadership development

September 17
2007 Reading 5
Reading 6
Week 6 Introduction to Leadership Theories
September 24
2007 Reading 7
Reading 8

Week 7 Leader as motivator and Influencer: Self Motivation and Motivating

October 01 Others
2007
Reading 9
Reading 10

Week 8 Leader as motivator and Influencer: Self Motivation and Motivating

October 08 Others (Continued…)
2007
Reading 11
Reading 12

Week 9 Pre-presentation of the group project [5 minutes]

October 15
2007 Reading 13
Reading 14

Week 10 Mid-term Exam

October 22 Reading 15
2007 Reading 16

Week 11 Leader as Organizer: Leadership as Organizing the Organization

October 29 &
2007 Leader as Decision Maker

Reading 17
Reading 18

Week 12 Leader as the Ethical Guardian

November 05
2007 Reading 19
Reading 20

Week 13 Leader as “Culture Creator”

November 12
2007 Reading 21
Reading 22
Week 14 Leader as Change Agent
November 19 Reading 23
2007 Reading 24

Week 15 Final Presentations

November 26
2007

List of Readings
The readings can be downloaded from the library website (go to eJournals:
http://www.utdallas.edu/library/collections/journals.htm )

1. Can Leadership Be Taught? Interview and Commentary by J.P. Doh, Academy of Management
Learning and Education, 2003, Vol.2, No.1, 54-67

2. What Leaders Really Do, by John P. Kotter, HBR, Dec. 2001

3. The Dangers of Feeling Like a Fake

4. Leadership that gets results, by D. Goleman, HBR, March-April 2000

5. Ending the CEO Succession Crisis, Ram Charan, HBR, Feb., 2005

6. Developing your Leadership Pipeline, Jay A. Conger and R. M. Fulmer, HBR, Dec. 2003

7. Leadership Development: Perk or Priority, HBR, I. F. Kesner, HBR, May 2003

8. Primal Leadership :The Hidden Driver of Great Leadership, by D. Goleman et al., HBR, Dec. 2001

9. Power is the Great Motivator, by D.C. McClelland and D.H. Burham, HBR, Jan. 2003

10. Learning to Lead at Toyota

11. Why should Anyone Be Led by You

12. Level 5 Leadership J. Collins et al., HBR, Jan. 2001

13. The Anxiety of Learning, D. L. Coutu, HBR, March 2002

14. Leading by Feel

15. Five Minds of a Manager, H. Mintzberg Harvard Business Review, Nov. 2003

16. Developing Leaders: How Winning Companies Keep on Winning?, R. M. Fulmer et. Al., Sloan
Management Review, Fall 2000

17. How to grow Great Leaders

18. The Smart-Talk Trap, J. Pfeffer and R. I. Sutton, HBR, may-June 1999

19. When Should a Leader Apologize

20. Managing Government, Governing Management, H. Mintzberg Harvard Business Review, May-
June 1996

21. The Work of Leadership, R. A. Heifetz and D. L. Laurie, HBR, Dec. 2001
22. Leading for Value, B. Pitman, HBR, April 2003

23. Leadership Made in Germany

24. Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence: An interview with Jack Welch, Noel Tichy and Ram Charan,
HBR, Sept.-Oct. 1989