Leadership and Strategic Management

Instructor

Associate Professor Dr. Prakorn Siriprakob [popsiri@gmail.com]

Course Description

The course will provide theories and concepts on leadership and strategic planning. It will also offer theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to become a good leader. The strategic management part will offer necessary knowledge on strategic planning, which include how to practically create vision, mission, strategic issues, strategy, programs, and key performance indicator (KPIs) as well as necessary techniques for strategic planning. The course will also provide basic understanding on planning, project management of the program.

Learning Outcomes

1. To understand the fundamental concepts and theories in regards of leadership

2. To understand the fundamental concepts and theories in strategic management

3. To examine traits and behaviors needed to become a dedicated ethical leader, who committed to both local and global communities.

4. To demonstrate leadership and teamwork abilities in the classroom as well as group project

5. To analyze and exchange ideas regarding critical issues and important contexts related to environmental assessment

6. To apply strategic planning concepts and ideas into the practical world

7. To understand fundamental concept of project management and execute them at a basic level.

8. To be able to create key performance indicators to measure success and failure of the plan and the program

Course Contents

Week 1: Introduction to Leadership and Strategic Planning

Week 2: What is management and why leadership is important.

Week 3: Theory of leadership: traits theory, transformational leadership, and transactional leadership

Week 4: Important traits and behaviors of an excellent and dedicated leader (Guest speaker)

Week 5: Different between leadership in the private sector and the public sector (Guest speaker)

Week 6: Leadership in practice 1 (guest speaker)

Week 7: Leadership in practice 2 (guest speaker)

Week 8: Midterm-exam

Week 9: What is strategic management and why it is important?

Week 10: Strategic management: Internal assessment and external assessment (workshop)

Week 11: Process in strategic management

Week 12: Significance techniques used in strategic management (guest speaker)

Week 13: Project management and program evaluation

Week 14: Strategic management in action (guest speaker)

Week 15: Project management and program evaluation in action (guest speaker)

Week 16: Group presentation

Week 17: Final Exam

Learning and Teaching Methods

• Lecture

• Class discussion

• Workshop

• Group project

• Individual paper

Learning Resources

David, F. R. & David, F. R. (2016). Strategic management: A competitive advantage approach, concepts and cases. (16th ed.) Boston, MA: Pearsons.

Denhardt, R. B., Denhardt, J. V. & Aristigueta, M. P. (2016). Managing human behavior in public and nonprofit organizations. (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage publications.

Dess, G. G., McNamara, G. & Eisner, A. B.. (2015). Strategic management: Text and cases (8th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hills.

Golensky, M. & Hager, M. A. (2020). Strategic leadership and management in nonprofit organizations: Theory and practice. (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Oxford university press.

Kaplan, R. S. & Norton D. P. (1996). The balanced scorecard: Translating strategy into action. Cambridge MA: Harvard business review press.

Lussier, R. N. & Achua, C. F. (2010). Leadership: Theory, application, and skill development. (4th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning.

Macmillan, H. & Tampoe, M. (2000). Strategic management. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Northhouse, P. (2017). Introduction to leadership: Concepts and practice. (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage publications.

Osborne, D. & Gaebler, T. (1992). Reinventing government: How the entrepreneurial spirit transforming the public sector. New York, NY: Penguin books.

Sinek, S. (2009). Start with why: How great leaders inspire everyone to take action. New York, NY: Penguin group.