Creative and innovative solutions using examples from history to explore leadership styles used to address and/or change organizational situations will be explored. Students examine historical leaders to uncover personal attributes, qualities, and characteristics that prove to be successful when leading others.
This course is compulsory. Although its use of literature is inexplicit, we believe that it is likely that literary texts (especially autobiography) are used to model historical examples of leadership.
This information has been collected for the Post-Discipline Online Syllabus Database. The database explores the use of literature by schools of professional education in North America. It forms part of a larger project titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities, led by Dr Merve Emre with the assistance of Dr Hayley G. Toth. You can find more information about the project at https://postdiscipline.english.ox.ac.uk/. Data was collected and accurate in 2021/22.