MLD-327: Moral Leadership: Self, Other, and Action

Semester: Spring

Credit: 1.0

Faculty: Marshall Ganz, Bernard Steinberg

Schedule

Day Time Location
First Day 1/25
Meet Day M 4:10 PM - 6:00 PM L280
Review

Description

If we understand leadership as accepting responsibility for enabling others to achieve purpose in the face of uncertainty, what makes it “moral?” We argue the capacity for moral leadership is rooted in self-understanding, relationship to others, and hopeful action. The moral challenge lies in the sources of motivation one draws upon and the capacity to articulate shared purpose to inspire action when conditions are most ambiguous. It is less about following rules than creating conditions for learning how to act when the rules are broken. Students learn how to draw moral instruction and inspiration from close reading of diverse narrative texts and to reflect on their own leadership challenges.

Also offered by the Divinity School as HDS-2893.