MBA 550

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AGENDA MBA-550 Leading in an Organization

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Understanding Systems of Leadership

Connections to recent events

How organizational leaders are responding

Challenge the Process

What's Due

Case Competition Meeting

1-2

Systems and Leadership

How are systems created?

Why are men automatically seen as leaders?

Does our current system support leadership equality?

Does our current system support leadership equity?

Civil War 1861-1865 (Antebellum means before the Civil War)

Reconstruction 1865-1877 (decade that followed the Civil War, when attempts were made to rebuild the union and to repair the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy. Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution reflect these goals:

13th Amendment: 1865 makes slavery illegal, except for those convicted of a crime

14th Amendment: 1868 grants citizenship to people born in the US including former slaves and gives equal protection under the law.

15th Amendment: 1870 protects voting rights for citizens regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Jim Crow Era 1877-1965 The roughly 100 year period following Reconstruction when states nullified the promise of freedom for African-Americans and developed violent forms of race-based social control. The Jim Crow era ended with the Civil Rights Act: 1964; Voting Rights Act: 1965

Plessy vs Ferguson 1896: The Supreme Court made segregation legal (separate but equal)

Quick History

Propaganda Point: Birth of a Nation: 1915 influential epic film about the nobility of the south and the bestiality of black people heavily influenced the confirmation of white supremacist values, attitudes, practices, and laws in the USA. It also revitalized and fueled membership to the Ku Klux Klan.

Watch 3 minute clip from Birth of a Nation in which a fictional "Negro Party" controls a State House of Representatives under Reconstruction.

https://youtu.be/GBzDH-Vwzy4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYCaob7MDA8

President Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation in the White House and reportedly said, "It's like writing history with lightning. My only regret is that it is all so terribly true."

Based on this clip, what does this film promote?

1915

TODAY

Video

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/us/central-park-video-dog-video-african-american-trnd/index.html

Question

If you were Amy's employer how would you respond?

How Organizational Leaders Are Responding

https://www.fastcompany.com/90511569/george-floyd-protest-ceos-and-business-leaders-respond-to-nationwide-civil-unrest

Group Discussion - Breakout Rooms

Context: When public trauma goes far beyond a leader's lived experience, it can be easy to ignore it. Recent events have left many looking for leaders to take action, but what should that action be?

Question: Faced with current civil unrest, what should organizational leaders do now to support their employees and stakeholders?

Task: Provide three recommendations and select a spokesperson to share your recommendations

Report Back

The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership ( Kouzes and Posner)

Model the Way

Inspire a Shared Vision

Challenge the Process

Enable Others to Act

Encourage the Heart

Challenge the Process

Leaders search for opportunities to change the status quo or the system.

Look for innovative ways to improve the organization.

Experiment and take risks.

Risk taking involves mistakes and failures, accept disappointments as learning opportunities.

What's Due 10/7

Article Reviews #2 and #3

Discussion Board Post (Due 10/7)

Context: When public trauma goes far beyond a leader's lived experience, it can be easy to ignore it. Recent events have left many looking for leaders to take action, but what should that action be?

Question: Faced with current civil unrest, what should organizational leaders do now to support their employees and stakeholders?

Task: Provide three recommendations.

Special Note: You only need to develop post if you were not in class on Oct. 1.

Case Competition Dates and Times