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Guidelines to develop a stand-alone course

 

This Module provides an outline for a three-hour class, but there is potential to develop its topics further into a stand-alone course. The scope and structure of such a course will be determined by the specific needs of each context, but a possible structure is presented here as a suggestion.

Session

Topic

Brief description

1

Introduction to leadership

Definition of leadership, introduction to the importance of leadership

2

Ethical responsibility

Discussion on the reasons that leaders usually have more ethical responsibility than followers

3

Effective leadership

Expose students to the important distinction between personal, theoretical, and professional ethics.

4

Ethical decision-making

Discussion on the effectiveness of leadership based on the relationship between leaders and followers, and organizational culture-building

5

Ethical theories

Utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics

6

Principles of ethical leadership

Discussion on principles of ethical leadership

7

Ethical decision-making

Application of ethical theories, principles to leadership cases

8

Ethics virtues

Discussion on the virtues an ethical person ought to possess

9

Ethical leadership in practice

Discussion on the measures an effective ethical manager ought to take

 

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