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In this course, students will analyze leadership and the
culture of organizations.
Experts attribute the success or failure of enterprises to their
"organizational culture."
What is culture? What are the distinctive methods that
leaders and consultants borrow from cultural anthropology to
deepen their understanding of their organizations? How does
analysis of an organization's culture help its leaders achieve
their mission?
The seminar will focus on the interplay of leadership, culture,
and organizational effectiveness. How do leaders create,
embed, and change the values of the organizations they
lead?
Participants will begin to learn the skills of ethnography,
culminating in a mini-ethnographic study of an organization
and a report of their findings.
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The seminar will focus on the interplay of leadership, culture,
and organizational effectiveness. How do leaders create,
embed, and change the values of the organizations they
lead?
What makes a leader? Is leadership an acquired skill or
innate personal quality? Are their different styles of
leadership that are more effective than others in particular
cultural settings?
What is culture? What are the distinctive methods that
leaders and consultants borrow from cultural anthropology to
deepen their understanding of their organizations? How does
analysis of an organization's culture help its leaders achieve
their mission?
This is a lot to cover in one course. We'll be running on two
slowly converging tracks:
- a discussion of leadership - its characteristics and
source
- social organization and culture - how human society is
structured and functions and how unique socio-cultural
characteristics shape the nature of leadership
In the course, we'll be reading some foundational articles on
social organization and function to orient students to the
anthropological perspective.
We'll be reading a Puilitzer Prize-winnning novel that is about
many things, including the actions of different leaders and
the leadership styles they employ.
Finally, students will begin to learn the skills of ethnography,
culminating in a mini-ethnographic study of an organization
and a report of their findings.
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