MA in Global Leadership Seminar 2 (one-week intensive Fall 2013) – Pasadena, CA

ML565A: Fall, 2013; ML565B: Winter 2014 (Cohort 27)

Fleming

ML565: ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS (A is 2 units, B is 2 units)

Charles Fleming, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Leadership.

DESCRIPTION:

All ministries exist in some form of organization, whether a church, mission agency, or marketplace 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: Upon the successful completion of the course, students will have

1. built an organizational leadership learning community;

2. interacted with seminal theories of organizational development;

3. observed their church/organization through a variety of organizational development theories;

4. evaluated their church/organization in order to diagnose health and offered prescriptives, if necessary;

5. 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 proactive book reports for Leading Kingdom Movements AND The Starfish and the Spider. The book reports are due the Friday before the one-week intensive in Pasadena begins.

REQUIRED READING:

If you have previously read any of the required texts, please select an alternative text from the Recommended Reading list or a book approved by the instructor.

Adizes, Ichak. Managing Corporate Lifecycles. Paramus, NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 1999 (or, an earlier ed. of Lifecycles is fine) (ISBN-10: 0735200572, $48.95) OR

Adizes, Ichak. Corporate Lifecycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About It? 4th edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.

Brafman, Ori, and Beckstrom, Rod. The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations. London: Portfolio, 2006. (Please read this and Built to Last before coming to class and write an analytical book report for both.) (ISBN-10: 1591841836, $10.20)

Breen, Mike, Leading Kingdom Movements – the “Everyman” notebook on how to change the world. Myrtle Beach, SC: Sheriar Press, 2013

Collins, James, and Jerry Porras. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. New York: Harper Collins, 2002. (B001S33262, $9.68)

Goleman, Daniel, Boyatzis, Richard, and McKee, Annie. Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004 (ISBN-10: 1591391849, $12.24)

One of the following:

Asheknas, Ron, et al. The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organizational Structure. Revised and Updated. Jossey-Bass, 2002. (ISBN-10: 078795943X, $19.77)

Chand, Samuel, R., Cracking Your Church’s Culture – Seven Keys to Unleashing Vision & Inspiration. San Franscisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011

Schein, Edgar H. Organizational Culture and Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004 (ISBN-10: 0787975974, $38.71)

Hofstede, Geert, and Hofstede, Gert-Jan. Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. (ISBN-10: 0071664181, $19.77)

Senge, Peter. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. New York: Broadway Business, 2006. (ISBN-10: 0385517254, $16.47)

Senge, Peter, et al. The Fifth Discipline: Fieldbook. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. (ISBN-10: 0385472560, $21.97)

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 books until the theories are introduced in class.)

ASSIGNMENTS:

ML565a (Fall 2013)

Analytical book reports for (45%)

Brafman/Beckstrom - The Starfish and the Spider 15

M. Breen—Leading Kingdom Movements 15

D. Goleman – Primal Leadership 15

Reading log for other required books (20%)

I. Adizes - Corporate LifeCycles 10

J. Collins— Built to Last 10

Leadership (35%)

1. Exercises (20%)
2. Class participation (15%)

ML565b (Winter 2014)

1. Project 1: Discern and/or write the mission, vision, core values, and strategies of your ministry OR Analyze and prescribe your ministry using Adizes' Corporate Lifecycles. (40%)
2. Project 2: analyzing and applying at least one of the organizational theories to your ministry. (60%)

PREREQUISITES: This course is only available to those who are accepted into the MA in Global Leadership.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: A required course for the Cohort portion of the MA in Global Leadership. NO AUDITORS.

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.