This course is designed to provide students a roadmap for effective organization leadership. Through reviewing contemporary theories of leadership and classical theories of ethics, it encourages students to form their own perspectives on leadership and ethics. The course discusses crucial aspects of leadership, such as power, integrity, motivating employees, feedback, and coaching. It also develops students’ leadership awareness to address the expectations of diverse organizational stakeholders. Special consideration will be given to the role of ethical leadership in ensuring that firms balance their diverse social responsibilities and maintain robust ethical safeguards, while resolving ethical problems and drawing appropriate lessons from them. The course will incorporate topics on sustainability and SDGs, by doing so, it prompts students to consider the importance of leadership in ensuring the long-term success of firms.

CILO-1: Explain the importance of being an ethical leader for the long-term success of firms. CILO-2: Apply knowledge of leadership to solve real world business problems. CILO-3: Explain leadership’s influences on organizational stakeholders, and of how the latter may influence the organization. CILO-4: Draw on diverse ethical principles to arrive at explaining and solving ethical dilemmas in business. CILO-5: Propose solutions to ethical problems in business that are informed by ethical theories and which consider impacts on stakeholders.