BA 3345.

021 Introduction to Leading and Managing

(3 credit hours)

Day and Time: Mondays and Wednesdays: 12.00 to 13.50

Place: SOM 1.107
Instructor: Padmakumar Nair, SOM 4.208
Telephone: 972-883-6264
Email: padmakumar.nair@utdallas.edu
Office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 11.00-12.00 or by appointment

Text books:
1. Developing Management Skills, Seventh edition
by David A. Whetten and Kim S. Cameron
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0-13-174742-8
Available at:
Off Campus Books
581 W Campbell Rd
Richardson, TX 75080
(972) 907-8398

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 organizational performance.

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 and government leaders.

In addition to what has been mentioned above, special attention will be given to the
following topics to understand changing internal and external environment of
organizations.
9 Leadership and Ethics
9 Leadership and Power
9 Global and Cross-Cultural Leadership
9 Leadership and Organizational Learning
Evaluation: There are two 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: 30%

Mid-term Exam: 20%
Individual Assignment 30%
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 work 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 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 “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 July 16th. As a group you will give a 15 min Power Point
presentation on this topic on July 23rd (groups 1 to 4) and 25th (groups 5 to 8). Also
please send me the presentation one day before your actual presentation.

CLASS SCHEDULE
Date Content
Week 1 Introduction and Leadership Theories
[May 14 & 16]
Week 2 Introduction and Leadership Theories (Continued…)
[May 21 & 23]
Week 3 Memorial Day (No class)
[May 28]
Week 3 Leadership Theories (Continued…)
[May 30]
Week 4 Personal Skills
[June 4 & 6] • Self Awareness

Reading 1 (Group 1)
Reading 2 (Group 2)
Reading 3 (Group 3)
 Reading 4 (Group 4)
Week 5 MBTI
[June 11 & 13]
Personal Skills
• Managing Stress

Inter Personal Skills

• Motivating Others
• Communicating Supportively
Reading 5 (Group 5)
Reading 6 (Group 6)
Reading 7 (Group 7)
Reading 8 (Group 8)
Week 6 Personal Skills
[June 18 & 20] • Learning and Problem Solving

Organizational Skills (Group Skills)

• Creating, Developing and Leading Teams

Reading 9 (Group 1)
Reading 10 (Group 2)
Reading 11 (Group 3)
Reading 12 (Group 4)
Week 7 Organizational Skills (Group Skills)
[June 25 & 27] • Leading Organizational Change

Inter Personal Skills

• Gaining and using Power
• Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

Reading 15 (Group 7)
Reading 16 (Group 8)
Week 8 Mid-term Exam
[July 02]
Week 8 Independence Day (No class)
[July 4]

Week 9 General discussion and Reflection

[July 09 & 11]

Week 10 General discussion and Reflection

[July 16 & 18]
Week 11 Final presentations
[July 23 & 25]
List of Readings
The readings can be downloaded from the library website (go to eJournals:
http://www.utdallas.edu/library/collections/journals.htm )
1. Managing Government, Governing Management, H. Mintzberg Harvard Business Review, May-
June 1996

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

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

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

5. Covert Leadership, H Mintzberg, HBR, Nov.-Dec. 1998

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

17. The Work of Leadership, R. A. Heifetz and D. L. Laurie, HBR, Dec. 2001

18. Leading for Value, B. Pitman, HBR, April 2003

19. CEO as a Coach: An interview with An Interview with Allied Signal’s L. Bossidy, Noel Tichy and
Ram Charan, HBR, March-April 1995

20. Future of Leadership: Combining Vertical and Shared Leadership to Transform Knowledge Work,
C. L. Pearce, Academy of Management Executive, vol.18, no.1 2004