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460 Values-Based Leadership
Course description:
The first
issue a leader in the role of manager, entrepreneur, investor
or stakeholder must address about an organization concerns its
"value proposition." And when dealing with the issue,
leaders need to consider the wider impact of the organization's
actions on its own employees and on society. This course focuses
on the problem of incorporating a wide variety of value perspectives
into decision-making. Values-based leadership involves the ability
to take the disparate value propositions of various stakeholders
and integrate them into a coherent vision. We explore how recognizing
and incorporating competing values claims throughout the organization
is often facilitated and hindered by a number of psychological,
organizational, and cultural processes. The course will help
students understand the variety of underlying mechanisms managers
of organizations typically have at their disposal to succeed
at implementing values objectives and selecting among different
approaches, while anticipating the constraints placed on choice
by the organization's market and non-market environment.
