ORG 7082 - Values Based Leadership

This course takes the perspective that leadership should not be about compulsion, coercion or manipulation and explores the moral and ethical challenge that engagement of people by leaders must be value-based, voluntary and free. In keeping with the goal of nurturing leadership of sustainable systems this course encourages students to think about collective and group leadership and the implications for building partnerships across diverse organizations, cultures, and sectors. Leadership of sustainable organizations and systems requires collaborative approaches to inspiring shared values and vision, building trusting and open relationships, engaging critical stakeholders, and supporting work that challenges commonly held individual and collective assumptions. Instead of leading 'over' people sustainable leadership leads 'with' people. It recognizes difference and contradiction as an important element of complex systems, and essential to the creative change process. 3 credit(s)

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