Type of Credit: Elective
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This course is designed to help participants understand Confucianism and its relevant concepts and principles on leadership, and its impacts and implications on leadership practices in Chinese Organizations.
For more than 2500 years, Confucianism had a strong impact on the philosophy, culture, society, economy, and politics of China, (also Japan, Korea and Vietnam). It’s core values are also deeply rooted in overseas Chinese communities around the world. With China, and Asia in general, becoming more important and influential in the world, there is renewed interest in understanding Confucianism and its relevance to economic success.
Given the shocking awakening to the importance of moral and ethical responsibilities of business leaders in the post-Enron era, the new challenges on leadership ethics, and the focus on ESG in recent years, Confucianism also provides a useful framework to re-examine our understanding of leadership, and reflect on our personal leadership behavior.
We shall discuss how we can draw new inspirations from these time-tested ancient wisdoms, and their implications and applications on leadership in the 21st century.
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Group Projects 1-4 20% (5% x 4)
Group Project Final 10%
Personal Reflections 1 - 3 30% (10% x 3)
Personal Final Reflection 20%
Peer Evaluation 20%
Bonus +/- 5%
Reference books:
1. A Confucian Theory of Leadership, ChaBong Kim
2. The Analects of Confucius, a new-millennium translation, David H. Lee
3. Leadership and Management in China, Chao-Chuan Chen and Yueh-Ting Lee
4. Inside Chinese Business - A guild for managers worldwide, Ming-Jer Chen
Reference websites:
> The Analects: http://www.confucius.org/main01.htm
> Mencius: http://nothingistic.org/library/mencius/toc.html
> The Great Learning: http://classics.mit.edu/Confucius/learning.html
> The Doctrine of The Mean: http://classics.mit.edu/Confucius/doctmean.html