Schedule

Date Topic/Readings Assignments

8/24 (Mon)

 Prologue: Leadership & Its Moral Challenges (Slides) Topic for analytic summary #1 posted (rubric) (guidelines) (templates: MS Word & Pages).
8/26 (Wed)

Prologue: Leadership & Its Moral Challenges
Reading questions.
Abraham Zaleznik, “Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?”

  
8/30 (Sun)   Analytic summary #1 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.
8/31 (Mon)

Prologue: Leadership & Its Moral Challenges
Reading questions.
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince.

  
9/2 (Wed)

Leadership & Ethics from a Philosophical Perspective (Unit #1)
Reading questions.
Plato, Gorgias.

  
9/7 (Mon) Leadership & Ethics from a Philosophical Perspective
Reading questions.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature.
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals.
James Rachels & Stuart Rachels, “Subjectivism in Ethics”.		 Topic for analytic summary #2 posted (rubric) (guidelines) (templates: MS Word & Pages).
9/9 (Wed) Leadership & Ethics from a Philosophical Perspective
Reading questions.
James Rachels & Stuart Rachels, “What is Morality?” & “Are There Proofs in Ethics?”
Shelly Kagan, “Defending Normative Theories”.		  
9/13 (Sun)   Analytic summary #2 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.
9/14 (Mon) Leadership & Ethics from a Philosophical Perspective
Reading questions.
Ruth Benedict, “Anthropology and the Abnormal”.
Mary Midgley, “Trying Out One’s New Sword”.
9/16 (Wed) Exercising Power (Unit #2)
Reading questions.
Gary Yukl, “Power and Influence Tactics”.
Bowen H. McCoy, “The Parable of the Sadu”.		  
9/21, 23 Eid Al-Adha Break  
9/28 (Mon) Exercising Power
Reading questions.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan.
Optional reference: Glossary of terminology in the Leviathan.		 Topic for postion paper #1 posted (rubric) (guidelines) (templates: MS Word & Pages).
9/30 (Wed)

Exercising Power
Reading questions.
Plato, “The Ring of Gyges”.
Dean Ludwig & Clinton Longenecker, “The Bathsheba Syndrome: The Ethical Failure of Successful Leaders”.

  
10/5 (Mon) Exercising Power
Reading questions.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged.
Lynn Parramore, “How a Libertarian Used Ayn Rand’s Crazy Philosophy to Drive Sears Into the Ground”.		  
10/7 (Wed)

Exercising Power
Reading questions.
Plato, “Tyranny and the Tyrant”.
Susan Dominus, “Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead?”

  
10/11 (Sun)   Position paper #1 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.
10/12 (Mon) Promoting the Greater Good (Unit #3)
Reading questions.
Robert K. Greenleaf, “The Servant as Leader”.
Yasin Khalaf Sarayrah, “Servant Leadership in the Bedouin-Arab Culture”.		  
10/14 (Wed) Promoting the Greater Good
Reading questions.
Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction Concerning the Principles of Morals and Legislation.
Robert Nozick, “The Experience Machine”.		  
10/19 (Mon)

Promoting the Greater Good
Reading questions.
John Stuart Mill, “What Utilitarianism Is”.
Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”.

 Topic for postion paper #2 posted (rubric) (guidelines) (templates: MS Word & Pages).
10/21 (Wed)
 Promoting the Greater Good
Reading questions.
John Stuart Mill, “On the Connexion Between Justice and Utility”.
10/26 (Mon) Promoting the Greater Good
Reading questions.
Michael Walzer, “Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands”.
10/28 (Wed) Promoting the Common Good (Unit #4)
Reading questions.
Alex John London, “Threats to the Common Good: Biochemical Weapons and Human Subjects Research”.
11/1 (Sun)   Position paper #2 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.
11/2 (Mon)

Promoting the Common Good
Reading questions.
United Nations Commission on Human Rights, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”.
Onora O'Neill, “The Dark Side of Human Rights”.
Karen Marquiss, “The Conflict at Lomatex Chemical”.
11/4 (Wed) Promoting the Greater Good
Reading questions.
Immanuel Kant, “Transition from Common to Philosophical Morals Rational Cognition”.		  
11/9 (Mon) Promoting the Greater Good
Reading questions.
Immanuel Kant, “Transition from Popular Moral Philosophy to the Metaphysics of Morals”.		 Topic for postion paper #3 posted (rubric) (guidelines) (templates: MS Word & Pages).
11/11 (Wed) Promoting the Common Good
Reading questions.
James MacGregor Burns, Leadership.		  
11/16 (Mon) The Traits of a Leader (Unit #5)
Reading questions.
Max Weber, “Legitimate Authority and Charisma”.
Charles Lindholm, “‘The Only God You’ll Ever See’: Jim Jones and the People’s Temple”.		  
11/18 (Wed)

The Traits of a Leader
Reading questions.
Robert C. Solomon, “Ethical Leadership, Emotions, and Trust: Beyond ‘Charisma’”.
Jeswald W. Salacuse, “Real Leaders Negotiate”.

  
11/22 (Sun)   Position paper #3 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.
11/23 (Mon) Discussion Lead by Evan Witt, HBKU Programs Supervisor for Student Life
Peter G. Northouse, “Trait Approach”.		 Topic for postion paper #4 posted (rubric) (guidelines) (templates: MS Word & Pages).
11/25 (Wed) Discussion Lead by Alicia Bates, CMU-Q Student Development Coordinator
“Culture and Leader Effectiveness: The GLOBE Study”.		  
11/30 (Mon)

Epilogue: Philosophy as Leadership
Reading questions.
Plato, “The Allegory of the Cave”.
Plato, Apology.

  
12/2 (Wed)

Class Cancelled: Work on your position papers!

  
12/6 (Sun)   Position paper #4 due by 12:00pm (noon) via Blackboard.