MA in Global
Leadership Seminar 2 (one-week intensive) -
ML565A: Summer
2008, ML565B: Fall 2008
Shelley
Trebesch
ML565 A & B: UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONAL
DYNAMICS (A 2 units, B 2 units).
Shelley Trebesch, Assistant Professor of
Leadership
DESCRIPTION:
All ministries exist in some form of organization, whether it be a
church, mission agency, or other type of Christian organization. Therefore,
understanding various organizational dynamics such as organizational culture,
structures of organizations, and organizational leadership is critical for any
leader desiring to have effective ministry within the organization. This course
will provide an introduction to the seminal theories in organizational dynamics
including purpose/vision of ministries, ministry values, learning
organizations, and organizational structures, culture and lifestyles. Through
the use of the seminal theories, case studies and the final project, students
will have the opportunity to analyze their own organizations and plan for the
future.
LEARNING
OUTCOMES: By the end of this course, students will
have:
·
Built
an organizational leadership community
·
Interacted
with seminal theories of organizational dynamics
·
Observed
their church/organization through a variety of organizational dynamics theories
·
Evaluated
their church/organization in order to diagnose health and offer prescriptives
if necessary
·
Sharpened
their organizational leadership expertise
COURSE FORMAT:
This course sequence
consists of pre-course reading and class participation in a one-week intensive,
which includes spiritual formation, lectures, small groups, case studies, and exercises
(part A). It is part of the Global
Leadership Seminar 2, a required two-week intensive course for the MA in Global
Leadership. NOTE: Before the campus seminar,
students will read and write analytical
book reports for Built to Last:
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies AND Good
To Great.
REQUIRED
·
Adizes,
Ichak. Managing Corporate Lifecycles.
·
Collins, James and
Jerry Porras. Built to Last: Successful
Habits of Visionary Companies.
·
Collins, James, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the
Leap… and Others Don’t.
·
Senge, Peter. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice
of the Learning Organization.
·
Stark, David. Christ-based
Leadership.
One of the
following:
·
Mintzberg, Henry. Structure
in Fives: Designing Effective Organizations.
·
Schein, Edgar H. Organizational
Culture and Leadership.
·
Senge, Peter et.
al. The Fifth Discipline: Fieldbook.
·
Trebesch, Shelley
G. “Organizations that Develop Persons: A Case Study of OMF International.”
FTS Dissertation, 2001. (available in the course shell)
(Students may choose to wait to purchase these last four books until the
theories are introduced in class.)
RECOMMENDED
·
Asheknas, Ron et al. The
Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organizational
Structure. Jossey-Bass, 2002.
·
De Pree, Max. Leading
Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community.
·
Hofstede, Geert and
Hofstede, Gert-Jan, Cultures and
Organizations: Software of the Mind.
ASSIGNMENTS PART A: (Summer 2008)
1.
Analytical book reports for the two
Collins books.
2.
Class participation.
ASSIGNMENTS PART B: (Fall 2008)
1. Project 1:
Discern and/or write the purpose and core values of your ministry OR
Analyze your ministry using Corporate Lifecycles.
2. Project 2: analyzing and applying at least one of the
organizational theories to your ministry.
3. Analytical book report for the David Stark
book.
4. Reading Log for other required books.
PREREQUISITES:
This course is only available to those who belong to a
Cohort in the MA in Global Leadership.
RELATIONSHIP
TO CURRICULUM: This
two-quarter sequence, ML565A and B, is part of the required MAGL cohort series
of courses. NO AUDITORS.
FINAL EXAMINATION: None. Updated
April 2008