Colorful Leadership

Each Color Essential, None Sufficient

E-Learning

You may view these modules for free, but they are not free for us to create.  If you would like to pay using the shareware principle, the suggested price per module is $0.99.  It is hard to imagine finding anything else so useful for so little cost.  Feel free to pay us if you find value in the material we are producing. 

Dr. James L.  Rairdon, FMLI,  has been teaching for National American University since 1993.  He also teaches as adjunct for Colorado Christian University.  Prior to teaching full time in 2008, he worked for Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company, and also for The Hartford Life Insurance Company.  Steven F. Wille, PMP, has managed software development at large corporations for over 25 years.  He authored the book, Colorful Leadership, and has written project management training classes that have been used in corporations internationally.  His BSBA is from the University of Denver and his MBA is from Regis University in Denver. Dr. James L. Rairdon, FMLI Steven F. Wille, PMP

Course Outline

This material is what you would expect an a college level management and leadership course, but it is developed with the working professional in mind.  It is hard to find time in the work day to learn because there is so much to do.  Everyone, however, can find time for a short break.  Grab a cup of coffee, click on your web browser spend approximately 10 minutes viewing the module of your choice, do a little web searching on the topic, and get back to work with a new idea that might prove useful.

You may view the material in any order, but we strongly suggest you start the introduction first so the approach for the rest of the modules makes sense.

Introduction

1. Introduction - Process, People, and Innovation
2. Bureaucratic Management - Max Weber
3. Scientific Management – Frederick Winslow Taylor
4. Human Relations Management - G. Elton Mayo
5. The Functions and Principles of Management - Henri Fayol
6. Quality Management – W. Edwards Deming

Environment

1. Internal Environment, Culture– Edgar Schein
2. External Environment – Michael Porter (five competitive forces)
3. Shaping Culture for Innovation – Christian Scholtz
4. Ethics and Social Responsibility
5. Hawthorne Studies - Expect the unexpected

Moral Philosophies

1. Utilitarianism – Jeremy Bentham
2. Emotivism – David Hume
3. Relativism – John Ladd
4. Virtue – Plato & Aristotle
5. Ethical Decision Making – Kohlberg (Stages of Moral Development)
6. Corporate Social Responsibility - R. Edward Freeman (1984) Strategic management: a stakeholder approach

Planning

1. Goals and Plans in the Organization – Oren Harari
2. Operational Planning – Porter, Mintzberg
3. Business-level Strategy – Porter, Mintzberg
4. Strategic Planning – Porter, Mintzberg
5. PERT Program Evaluation and Review Technique – based upon Gantt Charts

Organizing

1. Orgnaizing – Luther Gulick
2. Mechanistic v. Organic Systems – Burns & Stalker
3. Z Organization – William Ouchi
4. Designing Adaptive Organizations
5. Matrix Organizational Design – Jay Galbraith
6. Organizing Vertical Structure – Elliott Jaques
7. Learning Organizations – Peter Senge
8. Reengineering – Michael Hammer & James Champy
9. Organization Development – Wendell French
10. Systems Concept – Daniel Katz & Robert Khan
11. Structure Follows Strategy (Form Follows Function)
12. Managing Change
13. The Strategic Role of Human Resources Management

Leading

1. Motivation – Expectancy Theory – Victor Vroom
2. Hierarchy of Needs - Abraham Maslow
3. Behavioral Approach the Leadership Grid – Blam\ke & Moulton
4. Transformational & Transactional Leadership – James Burns
5. Servant Leadership – Robert Greenleaf
6. 3-Filters - Larry Nelson
7. Four Quadrants - Several popular personality models
8. Conflict- Wille

Controlling

1. What is Control?
2. Balanced Scorecard – Robert Kaplan & David Norton
3. Feedback
4. Control Model
5. Financial Control
6. Total Quality Management – W. Edwards Deming

Decision Making

1. Types of Decisions and Problems
2. Rational Decision Making Model – Herbert Simon
3. Satisfying Model of Decision Making – Herbert Simon (& Chester Barnard)

Leading Teams

1. International Management
2. The Borderless World
3. The International Business Environment
4. International Business Ethics