Petra Schmid: Katalogdaten im Herbstsemester 2021

NameFrau Prof. Dr. Petra Schmid
LehrgebietOrganizational Behavior
Adresse
Dep. Management,Technolog.u.Ökon.
ETH Zürich, WEV J 408
Weinbergstr. 56/58
8092 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
Telefon+41 44 632 51 65
E-Mailpetraschmid@ethz.ch
DepartementManagement, Technologie und Ökonomie
BeziehungAusserordentliche Professorin

NummerTitelECTSUmfangDozierende
363-1080-00LPower and Leadership Information
Findet dieses Semester nicht statt.
3 KP2SP. Schmid
KurzbeschreibungStudents will learn about different leadership styles and how power and leadership play out in social interactions. Emphasis is placed on personal development and the implementation and application of topics to the workplace context.
LernzielThis course will enhance students’ understanding of the complexity of hierarchical relationships in the workplace in weekly lessons that include lectures, analyses of leadership situations (e.g., case studies), exercises, and group discussions. More specifically, students will be informed about how power shapes people’s behaviors and decision-making processes. They will learn to analyze the different elements that make a good leader such as personality traits, behavior, and skills. With case studies and small group exercises, students will learn to evaluate different types of social and emotional skills related to leadership. Students will be encouraged to reflect upon their own communication skills and leadership potential and will be given the opportunity to train their leadership skills. The course further addresses integrity and ethics in leadership.
InhaltLectures will include

- Introduction to the course and the topic of power and leadership, definitions
- Leadership styles and theories: Universalist theories, behavioral theories, contingency theories, “new leadership” theories
- Leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills (3 sessions): 1. Effective communication: Listening and speaking, running effective meetings, delegating effectively, giving performance feedback, 2. Hierarchy and communications: Pitfalls and solutions, communication training, 3. Importance of social skills for leadership effectiveness
- Agility in teams: Overview of the Scrum Framework in the context of software development, leadership in agile teams, the role of motivation, training: experiencing first-hand how to develop a product in an agile way
- Power abuses, ethics in leadership: Why do leaders behave unethically? Destructive leadership: theories, examples, and consequences
- Diversity and discrimination in relation to power and leadership: Expectations, bias, and discrimination the workplace, sources of bias, how to reduce bias and discrimination
- Leadership and innovation: Which are the particular paradoxes and trade-offs leaders face when they are leading for innovation? How could they successfully manage those challenges?



Homework

- Analysis of Visionary Speeches (~10 hours)
- Preparation of a video of a 2-min speech (incl. training, ~12 hours)
- Providing feedback to two of your classmates on their leadership skills (~6 hours)
- Writing a leadership skills training report (~30 hours)
- MAndatory and facultative readings and exercises (~10 hours)
LiteraturMandatory readings:

Riggio & Reichard (2008). The emotional and social intelligences of effective leadership: An emotional and social skill approach. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 23, 169-185.

Jost, J. T., Rudman, L. A., Blair, I. V., Carney, D. R., Dasgupta, N., Glaser, J., Hardin, C. D. (2009) The existence of implicit bias is beyond reasonable doubt: A refutation of ideological and methodological objections and executive summary of ten studies that no manager should ignore. Research in Organizational Behavior, 29, 39-69.
KompetenzenKompetenzen
Fachspezifische KompetenzenKonzepte und Theoriengeprüft
Methodenspezifische KompetenzenAnalytische Kompetenzengeprüft
Soziale KompetenzenKommunikationgeprüft
Kooperation und Teamarbeitgeprüft
Menschenführung und Verantwortunggeprüft
Selbstdarstellung und soziale Einflussnahmegeprüft
Sensibilität für Vielfalt geprüft
Persönliche KompetenzenAnpassung und Flexibilitätgeprüft
Kritisches Denkengeprüft
Integrität und Arbeitsethikgeprüft
Selbstbewusstsein und Selbstreflexion geprüft
Selbststeuerung und Selbstmanagement geprüft
364-1064-00LInaugural Seminar - Doctoral Retreat Information Belegung eingeschränkt - Details anzeigen
Findet dieses Semester nicht statt.
Pre-registration upon invitation required.
Once your pre-registration has been confirmed, a registration in myStudies is possible.
1 KP1SP. Schmid, S. Brusoni, R. Finger, G. Grote, T. Netland, F. von Wangenheim, Noch nicht bekannt
KurzbeschreibungThis course is geared towards first and second-year doctoral candidates of MTEC. It is held as in a workshop style. Students attending this seminar will benefit from interdisciplinary discussions and insights into current and future work in business and economics research.
LernzielThe purpose of this course is to
- introduce doctoral candidates to the world of economics, management and systems research at MTEC
- make doctoral candidates aware of silo-thinking in the specific sub-disciplines and encourage them to go beyond those silos
- discuss current issues with regard to substantive, methodological and theoretical domains of research in the respective fields