Term 2 (Winter)
Leadership
Professors Kazuo Ichijo
Credits (2)
Elective
Course Overview
This course is designed to prepare students for the challenges of leadership in a rapidly changing global business environment.
The course also helps students develop an understanding of what it takes to be a real transformational leader who can deliver the result promised. Students will learn the importance of leaders being deeply and passionately engaged in an organization and why their robust dialogues about people, strategy, and operations result in businesses based on intellectual honesty and realism. By studying the leader’s role in facilitating and executing change, students themselves are encouraged to become real transformational leaders who can enable their organizations to accomplish sustainable growth. During the course, students will learn the conceptual framework of leadership and improve their key conceptual business knowledge, especially about leadership, strategy, human relationships, and working in a competitive environment. Students are encouraged to enhance their personal leadership competencies through case discussions and lectures about how to initiate change.
Course Structure
This course will be divided into distinct two modules. The first module will be about the fundamentals about leadership. The main contents covered in this first module will be: (a) the function of leadership, and (b) leadership competency for making change really happen in an organization. The second module will be about creating the foundation of an organization with excellent ability to make change happen. The main contents covered will be: (a) the social architecture of an organization, and (b) how to develop leaders at every organizational level. By having leaders at every organizational level, an organization successfully and effectively can solve various problems that might be caused by environmental changes. Developing leaders at every organizational level is a crucial foundation for an organization good at execution.
Teaching Methodology
This course will be taught using the Harvard Business School type of case method. Students will be asked to prepare a case and discuss questions designated by the instructor for each session. Most learning will take place in class primarily from comments made by fellow students. The role of the instructor will be to facilitate stimulating discussion.
