This is a new offering of the International Studies Program and part of its core undergraduate curriculum.    The focus of the course is on international and cross-cultural perspectives on leadership.     The course is interdisciplinary and cross-field in approach, looking at leadership in a wide array of contexts such as:
The course will also emphasize the case study approach by examining diverse types of leadership approaches (Dutch, Japanese, Buddhist, Confucian, U.S., etc.) and a wide range of actual world leaders (Nelson Mandela, U Thant, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Aung San Suu Kyi, Eva Peron, and Corazon Aquino as examples). Finally, there will an emphasis on gender aspects of leadership and an examination of the role that women leaders have played in recent history.

January 7:  Introduction

Basic value premises and a normative approach to the study of leadership. A generic interdisciplinary approach to leadership. The functions of leaders. Genres of leadership.
Classical perspectives on leadership.

Some key theoretical questions:

Are leaders born or made?
Is leadership an art or a science?
Can leaders be trained?
Do leaders create history or does history create leaders?

Readings:  Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (New York:  Dover, 1992)
James M. Burns, Leadership (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), pp. 1-28.

January 14:  Asian approaches to leadership

The Buddhist leader
Confucian and Taoist approaches to leadership

Readings:

  1. Gerald Fry, Misao Makino, and Osamitsu Yamada, "Buddhist Entrepreneurship," pp. 323-338 in Amara Pongsapich, et al., Entrepreneurship and Socio-economic Transformation in Thailand and Southeast Asia (Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute and French Institute of Scientific Research for Development in Cooperation, 1994).
  2. Geert Hofstedte, "Virtue versus Truth," pp. 159-174 in Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997).
  3. Sidney Piburn (editor and compiler), The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (Ithaca,  N.Y.: Snow Lion, 1990).
January 21:  Mini-presentations on inspiring world leaders

Reading:  Hofstedte, Chapters I and II

January 28:  Completion of mini-presentations

Guest lecture by David Frohnmayer, President, University of Oregon

Lessons from mini-presentations.   Cross-cultural challenges facing leaders of the 21st Century;   The Protean ideal

Reading:  Hofstedte, Chapters III, V
Robert J. Lifton,  The Protean Self in an Age of Fragmentation (New York: Basic  Books, 1993 ), pp. 1-12.

February  4:  Leaders and followers and the world of work

Time management.   Attitudes toward and conceptions of work.    National versus organizational cultures.   Fostering creativity and innovation.

Readings:  Hofstedte, Chapters VI, Chapters VIII-X, and appendix.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,  Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (New York:
 Harper & Row, 1990), pp. 214-240.
E.F. Schumacher, Good Work (New York:  Harper & Row, 1979), pp. 124-145.

February 11:   Gender and leadership

Video on Corazon Aquino
Panel of women leaders

Take-home mid-term examination distributed.

Readings:  Hofstedte, Chapter IV

  1. Josef Silverstein (ed.), "Aung San Suu Kyi: Is She Burma's Woman of Destiny," pp. 267- 283 in Freedom from Fear and Other Writings (New York: Penguin Books,  1991).
  2. Jose Abueva (ed.), "Assessing the Presidential Leadership of Corazon C. Aquino," pp. 413-443 in Aquino Presidency and Administration (1986-1992) (Manila: University of the Philippines Press, 1993).
  3. Marion F. Levy, Each in Her Own Way: Women Leaders of the Developing World (Boulder:  Lynne Rienner, 1988), pp. 1-29.
February 18:  Case studies  of inspiring leaders

Mohandas Gandhi, Konosuke Matsushita, Aung San Suu Kyi, Robert Galvin,
Mother Teresa,  Sirimavo Bandararanaike

Reading:  Josef Silverstein, "Aung San Suu Kyi: Is She Burma's Woman of Destiny,"
Freedom from Fear and Other Writings (New York: Penguin, 1991).

Take-home mid-term due today.

February 25:   The leader as evaluator

Evaluating country climates;  evaluating organizations;  evaluating employees,
evaluating technologies;   being digital;   case study of the Iridum project.

Reading:  Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital (New York: Knopf, 1995),  pp. 184-195;
 227-231.

Iridium Background Information

March 4:  Managing with heart; servant leadership; the role of emotional and
cultural intelligence

Critical review due today.

Readings:  Daniel Goleman,  Emotional Intelligence (New York: Bantam, 1995).
Robert K. Greenleaf, Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power
 and Greatness (New York: Robert K. Greenleaf Center, 1991), pp. 7-48.

March 11:   The ethics of leadership

Case studies of ethical dilemmas.    Strategies for anticipating the future.   The future executive.   The sigmoid function.   The Funai dilemma.   Symbols of the leader in the
21st century.

Reading:   Gerald Fry and Clarence Thurber,   "Anonymous Case Studies,"  pp. 95-132
 in The International Education of the Development Consultant:  Communicating
 with Peasants and Princes (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1989).

Menu of Required and Optional Assignments

Required Activities

*Oral or written presentation on an inspiring leader (10 points) Due date:  January 21

*Take-home mid-term examination   (20 points): Due date, February 18.

*Critical review of Goleman book (20 points): Due date, March 4.

*Analytical study of an organization and its culture and leadership (1 to 3) person teams (30 points)    Due date: March 18 by 5:00 PM in 837 PLC.

Optional Activities

Critical review of a film dealing with leadership issues such as "Gandhi," "Patton," "War and Peace," "The Ugly American," "The Quiet American," "Evita" (10 points) Due date:
February 25.

Critical review of a novel dealing with leadership issues such as War and Peace
(20 points); other novels,  (15 points).   Due date: March 4.
A related bibliography will be posted on the Internet.

Critique of a campus lecture dealing with leadership issues or with leadership implications (5 points each); maximum of two such critiques.  Due date: March 4

A second written paper on an inspiring leader (10 points)  Due date:  March 4

A critique of a significant non-fiction book on leadership (20 points)
A related bibliography is being posted on the internet.  Due date:  March 4

A critical review of yourself as a leader/follower (10 points)   What are your major strengths and weaknesses?   In doing your self-assessment, please draw on the Flow and Protean readings.     Due date:  March 4

*Items with an asterisk are required of all students.

You should choose activities and experiences which total 100 points.

Guidelines for Oral or Written Presentation on a Leader

For those randomly selected to do an oral presentation, guidelines are as follows:

 • Do not read papers.   Having notes is fine.
 • Be careful about limiting yourself to a 3 minute mini-presentation.
 • The content of the presentation should be on
  1) What primarily accounts for the effectiveness of this particular leader?
  2) What is the major weakness(es) of the leader?
  3) Lesson(s) to be learned
 • Avoid detailed descriptive biographic facts.
 • Try to make your presentation as dynamic and entertaining as possible.  It's all  right to use overheads, posters, or slides, but, of course, limited in number  because of the time constraints involved.  You want us to remember the
 points you are making.
 
For those doing a written report, the same guidelines apply, except that your papers
should be 350 to 500 words in length, covering the same substantive topics as indicated
above.    Written papers are due the evening of January 21.