Teaching The Moral Leader: A Literature-based Leadership Course: A Guide for Instructors

by Sucher; Sandra J.

• ISBN13: 9780415400657
• ISBN10: 0415400651
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-06-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course 'The Moral Leader', an MBA elective taken by thousands of HBS students over nearly twenty years. Through the close study of literature--novels, plays, and historical accounts-- followed by rigorous classroom discussion, this innovative course encourages students to confront fundamental moral challenges, to develop skills in moral analysis and judgment, and to come to terms with their own definition of moral leadership. Using this guide's background material and detailed teaching plans, instructors will be well prepared to lead their students in the study of this vital and important subject. Featuring a website to run alongside that links the manual with the textbook and provides a wealth of extra resources, including on-line links to Harvard Business School case studies and teaching notes thismanual forms a perfect complement to The Moral Leader core text also by Sandra Sucher. The detailed and hands-on nature of the guide makes it possible for instructors, with or without a specialized background, to replicate the 13-session Harvard Business School course, or to integrate moral leadership into an existing course, or as a module, or as stand-alone sessions. The manual presents flexible class plans, easily adaptable to a wide variety of business and academic topics.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Course Description

Book's Purpose and Preview

Literature-Based Teaching: Overview of Pedagogy

Moral Challenge: Module Overview Note

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Antigone

Blessed Assurance

Things Fall Apart

Moral Reasoning: Module Overview Note

'Trifles'

The Sweet Hereafter

The Remains of the Day

A Man for All Seasons

Moral Leadership: Module Overview Note

The Prince

The Secret Sharer

Truman and the Bomb

Excerpts from the Autobiographies of

American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center

Appendices: Assessing Student Incoming Perceptions, Course Paper

Synopses of Course Material

Select Bibliography

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