MA in Global Leadership Seminar 2 (one-week intensive Winter 2015) – Pasadena, CA
ML565A: Winter, 2015; ML565B: Spring 2015 (Cohort 31)
Fleming
ML565: ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS (A is 2 units, B is 2 units: 160 hours)
Charles Fleming, Affiliate Assistant Professor in 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 projects, 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
built an organizational leadership learning community;
interacted with seminal theories of organizational development;
observed their church/organization through a variety of organizational development theories;
evaluated their church/organization in order to diagnose health and offered prescriptives, if necessary;
sharpened their organizational leadership expertise.
COURSE FORMAT:
This course sequence consists of pre-course reading, proactive book reports, and class participation in a one-week intensive, which includes spiritual formation, lectures, small groups, case studies, and exercises (part A) and a concluding section that includes additional reading and two analytical/integrative writing projects (part B). It is part of the Global Leadership Seminar 2, a required two-week intensive course for the MA in Global Leadership.
REQUIRED READING: 1,200 pages [75 hours]
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.
ML565A Reading [500 pages, 30 hours]:
The following texts must be read prior to the intensive seminar meeting in Pasadena.
Breen, Mike, Leading Kingdom Movements: The “Everyman” Notebook on How to Change the World. Myrtle Beach, SC: Sheriar Press, 2013. ISBN: 098466436X, pub. price $37.98. (150 pages assigned)
Goleman, Daniel, Boyatzis, Richard, and McKee, Annie. Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence. 2nd Ed. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2013. ISBN-10: 1422168034, pub price $22.00 (200 pages assigned)
Olson, David T. Discovering Your Leadership Style: the Power of Chemistry, Strategy and Spirituality. IVP Books, 2014. ISBN: 083084113X, pub. price $11.20 (150 pages assigned)
ML565B Reading [700 pages, 45 hours]:
Students may choose to wait to purchase books or book sets for ML565B until the theories are introduced in class.
Project 1 Reading (ML565B): One of the following books (300 pages assigned).
Adizes, Ichak. Managing Corporate Lifecycles. Paramus, NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 1999 (or, an earlier ed. of Lifecycles is fine) ISBN-10: 0735200572, pub. price $48.95
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. ISBN-10: 0131744267.
Collins, James, and Jerry Porras. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. New York: Harper Collins, 2002. ISBN: B001S33262, pub. price $17.99
Project 2 Reading (ML565B): One of the following books or sets of books (400 pages assigned)
Ashkenas, Ron, et al. The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organizational Structure. Revised and Updated. Jossey-Bass, 2002. ISBN-10: 078795943X, pub. price $19.77
Schein, Edgar H. Organizational Culture and Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. ISBN-10: 0787975974, pub. price $38.71, AND EITHER Hofstede, Geert, and Hofstede, Gert-Jan. Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. ISBN-10: 0071664181, pub. price $19.77, OR Chand, Samuel, R., Cracking Your Church’s Culture – Seven Keys to Unleashing Vision & Inspiration. San Franscisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011. ISBN-10: 0470627816, pub. price $17.76.
Senge, Peter. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. New York: Broadway Business, 2006. ISBN-10: 0385517254, Pub. Price $16.47 AND Senge, Peter, et al. The Fifth Discipline: Fieldbook. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. ISBN-10: 0385472560, Pub. Price $21.97
Trebesch, Shelley G. "Organizations that Develop Persons: A Case Study of OMF International." FTS Dissertation, 2001. (available in the course shell)
ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:
ML565A (Winter 2015) (80 hours)
500 pages of required reading. [30 hours].
Completion of three Proactive Reading Reports for Breen, Leading Kingdom Movements, Olson, Discovering Your Leadership Style, and Golman, Primal Leadership. (60%) [This assignment is related learning outcome #2]. [10 hours]
Class sessions [30 hours]
Group Work—Exercises and Discussion. (40%) [This assignment is related learning outcomes #1, 2, 5]. [10 hours]
ML565B (Spring 2015) (80 hours)
700 pages of required reading [45 hours]
Project 1: Discern and/or write the mission, vision, core values, and strategies of your ministry reflecting Collins & Porras OR Analyze and prescribe your ministry using Adizes' Corporate Lifecycles. (40%) [This assignment is related learning outcomes #2- 5]. [15 hours]
Project 2: Analyzing and applying at least one of the organizational theories to your ministry. (60%) [This assignment is related learning outcomes #2-5]. [20 hours]
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.